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The hub to finding anything and everything Italian at your fingertips! Here is the place where you can access authentic Italian media or even to just sharpen up your language skills. Let us be your guides to Italy, right from the comfort of your browser.

Podcast

Learn Italian with Lucrezia- Lucrezia Oddone 

Where she Lucrezia talks & teaches about Italian culture, stories, and the language. 

Italian Stories in Italian- Barbara Bassi 

Barbara reads old Italian tales in Italian 

News in Slow Italian- Linguistica 360

Current Events in Italy spoken in Italian (Linguistica 360 offers intermediate, advanced, and beginner)

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rvc1JhR8hc.    

14 Italian phrases to boost your daily conversations in Italian- Learn Italian with Lucrezia. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ8ejTvRaWE

Learn Italian with teacher Stefano- He teaches Italian by vlogging his daily life in Italian. 

Television

RaiNews24 live

24/7 Italian news stream by Rai

Rai.tv

The official website of Italy’s public TV offers plenty of shows, TV series, movies, and lots of ways to practice your Italian.

La7

Private TV network with great news and cultural programs

Radio

RadioRai live 

Italian Public radio. Ten radio channels with music, politics, news, and talk radio – play it through your browser to be surrounded by the Italian language

Newspapers

La Repubblica  http://www.repubblica.it

Il Corriere della Sera http://www.corriere.it

La Stampa   http://www.lastampa.it

Dictionaries

For quick online reference these are reliable dictionaries

Garzanti Linguistica  http://www.garzantilinguistica.it

Treccani http://www.treccani.it

Free digital library

Progetto Manuzio  http://www.liberliber.it/online/

Thousands of free e-books