Web links
These links are aimed at providing further practice and access to a wide range of cultural information about Italy.
Reading listening and viewing
Newspapers
- Corriere della Sera
- La Repubblica
- La Stampa
- Il Manifesto
- l’Unità
- Affari Italiani
- L’Avvenire
- Il Foglio
- Il Piccolo
- Sole 24 Ore (the leading financial newspaper)
- Media links (useful alphabetical list including links to lesser known Italian newspapers)
News and sport online
- Virgilio Notizie
- ANSA Italian Press agency
- RAI news
- Rai Sport
- Televideo (provides replay facilities as well as news)
- TG1 online
- TG2 online
- TG3 online
- TGR online (for regional news)
- Rai parlamento (focuses on politics in parliament and political analysis)
- Euronews
Private mediaset stations
General topics
- Enciclopedia Treccani – advanced (enormous range of topics, including lingua italiana. Worth browsing carefully. Also has web TV.)
- Focus (magazine for general readers: ‘Su Focus.it trovi tante notizie, curiosità e news su scienza, natura, mondo animale e sesso; scopri tutte le ultime novità su storia, tecnologia e salute.’)
Culture and history
- Rai Cultura
- Rai Fiction (for soaps and TV series)
- Rai Cinema
- Rai Libri
- Rai Letteratura
- Rai Arte
- Misteri d’Italia (archive devoted to unsolved or controversial episodes in Italian history)
- Jazz al Nero – advanced (focuses on reviews of thriller and noir genre of literature, but has a wide range of interesting blog links to a great variety of contemporary cultural and political comment)
TV and radio
- RAI (this important site enables you to access live all RAI TV and radio programmes – Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4 – and to create podcasts, for example: Radio 3 Fahrenheit)
- Wikiradio
- Giornale Radio RAI (for direct access to RAI radio stations)
- Radio 24 (wide range of interesting programmes that you can hear live and as podcasts)
- Radio Italia (mainly music)
- Tunein.com (lists the Italian radio stations streaming live on the internet)
Social media and YouTube
- Social Media Italia (for all Italian social media)
- ByoBlu (videoblog of Claudio Messora)
- Willwoosh (YouTube channel)
Italian language
Italian language academy
- Accademia della Crusca (Italy’s prestigious language academy, of especial interest at advanced level)
Bilingual dictionaries
- Ragazzini 2015 (you need to register for this but it is free)
- Google Translate
- Collins Italian Dictionary
Monolingual Dictionaries
- Word Reference
- Treccani
- Grande Dizionario
- Zingarelli 2015 (you need to register for this but it is free)
- Il Wizionario
Vocabulary building
- Corriere della Sera Dizsinonimi
- Nuovo dizionario dei sinonimi
- Treccani Sinonimi
- Word Reference (active forum about language where advice is sought and given. Fun and engaging)
- Parola del giorno (Facebook group and daily blog, ideal for vocabulary building)
General search engines
Academic organisations and periodicals
United Kingdom
- Society for Italian Studies (SIS) (supports academics and the teaching of Italian)
- Italian Studies (journal of the SIS, founded in 1937)
- Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) (founded in 1982 to bring together teaching, research, professional and general interests in modern Italy from all disciplinary angles)
- Modern Italy (journal of the ASMI)
- The Italianist (founded in 1981, one of the foremost academic journals on wide ranging subjects of Italian interest)
- Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS) (one of the leading English language forums for debate and discussion on modern Italy)
- British Italian Society (originating in 1941 to promote good relations with Italy. For lovers of Italy and Italian culture)
North America and Canada
- American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
- Italian Culture (official journal of the AAIS)
- Canadian Society for Italian Studies (CSIS)
- Quaderni d’italianistica (official journal of the CSIS)
Australasia
South Africa
- Association of Professional Italianists in South Africa (API)
- Italian Studies in Southern Africa (ISSA) (this journal provides a forum for academic discussion on all aspects of Italian culture)
Italian institutes and other cultural organisations
Worldwide
- Italian cultural institutes in the world (alphabetical list with links by country)
UK and the Republic of Ireland
- Italian Cultural Institute London
- Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh
- Italian Cultural Institute Dublin
North America
- Italy in the US (lists the Italian embassy, cultural institutes and other Italian government agencies)
Canada
- Italian Cultural Institute Toronto
- Italian Cultural Institute Montreal
- Italian Consulate General Vancouver
- Italian Canadian community links
Australasia
- Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne
- Italian Cultural Institute Sydney
- Italian Institute Auckland
- Embassy of Italy Wellington
- Circolo italiano di Wellington