The Italian Program

The Italian Program
at the University of Kentucky

 Electronic Tutorial

Adjectives	Adjectives
Adverbs	Adverb of place: ci. Contrast with partitive: ne
Articles	Articles
Avere	Expressions with verb Avere
Bello	Forms of the adjective Bello
Buono	Forms of the adjective Buono
Special Plurals	Nouns and Adjectives ending -co, -ca, -go, -ga
Imperatives	Command Forms
Comparatives and Superlatives	Expressions for comparing qualities
Conoscere vs. Sapere	Verbs to say “to know”
Conditional Mood	Conditional, present and past
Demonstratives	Questo and Quello (This and That)
Disjunctive Pronouns	Pronouns to use for emphasis, stress
Double Pronouns	Combination of direct and indirect pronouns
Far fare	Expressions with two verbs to indicate who is doing action
Future	Verbs in the Future Tense
If Clauses	Hypothetical “if” clauses
Imperfect	Imperfect Tense
Indefinite	Indefinite Adjectives and Pronouns
Infinitives with prepositions	Certain Verbs followed by required Prepositions (a, di, per)
Negations	Forming negations, negative expressions
Object Pronouns	Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Ordinal Numbers	Numbers used to describe order in a sequence
Partitives	Expressions with di; the pronoun ne (shows indefinite quantity)
Passato	Passato prossimo Tense
Passive	The Passive Voice
Piacere	The Verb to express “liking”: Piacere
Possessives	Adjectives and Pronouns to show Ownership
Prepositions	Prepositions and their Contractions with Definite Articles
Present	The Present Indicative Tense
More Pronouns	More Exercises with Object Pronouns
Proverbs	Some Common Italian Proverbs (for fun!)
Questions	Interrogative Expressions and Question Formation
Reading Practice	Reading Comprehension Paragraphs
Reflexives	Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs and Pronouns
Relative Pronouns	Relative Pronouns: che, cui
Remote Past	Passato Remoto (Preterit; Past Absolute) Tense
Sequence	Sequence of Tenses
Singular/Plural	Practicing Singular/Plural Forms and Agreements
Subjunctive	Il Congiuntivo (The Subjunctive Mood)
Ten Commandments	The “Ten Commandments” of Language Learning (for fun!)
Tense Review	Review of Principal Tenses

 

Web Links

Italian web portal http://www.ItalianiNelMondo.com - Si presenta il nuovo portale web specializzato che raggruppa piú di 2500 siti web riguardanti la presenza italiana nel mondo. (Introducing the new specialized web portal linking to more than 2500 websites relating to international Italian subject matter.

Italian Dictionaries online www.garzantilinguistica.it      Type in an Italian word and get a definition, etymology, examples of use, and pronunciation. www.piazzadante.it      Italian-English, English-Italian, and Italian dictionaries. Free registration. www.italian-food-net.ittc.it/dizionar.htm      English-Italian Cooking Terminology www.meteorologicando.it/meteo/piccolo_dizionario_italiano.htm      Short, Italian-English meteorological dictionary.

Architecture, Art History www.arca.net./db/musei/giotto.htm      The Duomo and other famous buildings in Florence

Bookstores online www.internetbookshop.it www.bulzoni.it www.libreriachiari.it www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/ - Italian literature, print books and e-books for sale.

Cinema vlib.iue.it/history/ - Has a film history section. www.nichetti.it - Innovative film director's own website.

Dante Studies www.italianstudies.org/dante/ - Dante's Comedy, James F. Cotter translation divina-comedia.uniandes.edu.co/ - Spanish site for Dante Studies. www.geocities.com/DanteStudies firenze.net/dante/ members.aol.com/lieberk/welc_fr.html www.danteonline.it      All Dante's texts plus bibliographical material, electronic word searching. www.dantesociety.org       Valuable reference source; many links, journals' contents pages online. dante.ilt.columbia.edu/ www.virgil.org/bibliography - Contains a Dante bibliography, too. www.italianstudies.org/aati/     Online translations of Dante's Comedy and Lyric Poems www.superdante.it      Online reference tool for 40 Italian libraries; masterworks of Italian literature online.

General Information about Italy www.geocities.com/Athens/5183/ltitalian.html      Many links, various Italian newspapers, Grammar, dictionary, etc. Excellent site & huge! home.edu.coventry.ac.uk/Italian      In the Index, click on "Lezioni di italiano." Links to many Italian sites, many topics, also commercial sites, style, recipes, newspapers, cinema, interesting lessons on Italian life and culture, etc. www.embitaly.org.uk      Italian Embassy in the United Kingdom. Many links and topics. Includes an "Italian Genealogy search." www.parolevive.it      Real Italian website. Second-year students are encouraged to use. Search engine for everything, train schedules, newspapers, etc. www.virgilio.it      Yahoo-like search engine in Italian. Second-year students are encourage to use. www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/links.html

Italian Literature www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/ - Concise biographies of Italian authors, e-books. www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/hum/italian/       Literature, Language Learning Tapes, directory of Italian websites cibit.unipi.it - Over 1,000 electronic texts online. www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/projects.html www.stg.brown.edu/projects/decameron/      Boccaccio's Decameron (V. Branca ed.), concordance, machine searchable. Includes much interesting material about the medieval period in which Boccaccio lived and wrote. In English. www.superdante.it      Online reference tool for 40 Italian libraries; masterworks of Italian literature online.

Scholarly Journals, Reference Sources American Assn. of Teachers of Italian Newsletter: www.italianstudies.org/aati/      Information for teachers, Italian scholars, about Italian programs in the US, announcements of interest to Italian students and writing contest, links to Italian sites. Annali d'italianistica: www.ibiblio.org/annali Electronic Bulletin of Dante Studies of America: www.princeton.edu/~dante Forum Italicum: www.italianstudies.org/forum/ Italianistica: www.italianisticaonline.it I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance: www.itatti.it History: http://vlib.iue.it/history/europe.htm History: www.EarlyModernItaly.com      Focus on Italian history, 1550-1800.      Bibliography of books and articles published since 1850. Maps: vlib.iue.it/history/europe.htm

News Media www.corriere.it www.lastampa.it www.repubblica.it www.raiinternational.rai.it

Opera Companies www.cincinnatiopera.com www.kyopera.org (Louisville) www.opera-stl.org (St. Louis, MO) www.operamemphis.org www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/companies (national and international)

Theater: Dario Fo and Franca Rame www.dariofo.it www.francarame.it www.geocities.com/dariofoarchive