tutorino

Interactive games for learning Italian

Audio visual beginners vocab builder

Chic and easy-to-use exercises

A ton of exercises

Lots of good stuff here

Create an account and search for Italian flashcards. Amazing site.

Lots of great learning aids

High quality

Grammar and culture podcast - must see!

Really good verb conjugator

History of Italian

Which helper to use - avere or essere - with intransitives (verbs with no direct object)

Bonanza of grammar lessons

Italian only but helps you know what to focus on

Hippest Italian slang (definitions in Italian only)

A site worth spending a lot of time on

Great article by former tutorino teacher Luna, one of the best we've ever had and a fine person all around

Blog by someone who's practical when it makes sense to be but idealistic when it counts

Great site that lets you read Italian comics online for free

Once you download this free, clean software and install the Italian dictionary you can ctrl+right-click on any Italian word on any webpage and get an instant English translation!

Read the Italian translation of Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints trilogy online

Complete text of one of Libero Bovio's favourite books (along with Pinocchio)

Italy as seen by ordinary Italians

English lit in Italian, Italian lit in English - side-by-side!

Read along while you listen

Another listen while you read site

Beginners text with comprehension questions

Quotes and aphorisms in Italian from all over the world

Nice Canadian magazine about Italy

Popular Italian science mag (for the layman), with history version too

Italian tic-tac-toe, instructions in Italian

Tons of great free downloadable Italian ebooks

Required reading

Well written blog by former tutorino teacher and great friend Andrea

Very funny

Listen to books in Italian

Short stories in Italian

Prof in Naples lectures on Dante

This site makes me red, white and green with envy!

From RAI

Italian books and ideas radio show featuring chats with leading authors

Italy's Rushdie speaks

Great podcast. You can also subscribe on itunes.

User submitted videos about Italian emigration around the world

Real pizzaioli from Italy teach pizza-making in Toronto

Long overdue!

Beautiful documentary about Italian emigration to Canada

Buonalbergo (my parents' hometown)

Keep on top of what's happening in Italia

Musica napoletana 24/7

Dozens of episodes of Italy's most popular soap

Real Italian music (as opposed to American music sung in Italian)

Just about every great painting you can think of (Italian or not)

The title says it all. In Italian.

Your guide to Italy and its products

All about how to learn Italian and how to speak Italian

Articles about the history of Napoli and area

All about the history and culture of il Mezzogiorno

Digital archive of Neapolitan vinyl from 1900-1950 (membership required)

Mainly a forum for expat Italians

Best Napoli site ever - old pics, new pics, videos. Next best thing to being there.

The title says it all

Italian provinces and regions ranked by quality of life

Great article on senso civico

Best Italian hip hop

Da non perdere

Site advancing the theory that Shakespeare was actually John Florio

Web TV channel all about il Bel Paese

Panorama Italia showcases Montreal's booming Italian culture and community.

Amazing documentary about the twenty regions of Italy

Not cheap but worth it!

Amazing slide show

Not many people realize rap was invented in Italy

Free registration required

The man with the luckiest job in the world

Really beautiful

Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario transforms Yonge and Dundas Square into a real Italian piazza

Just $40 a year if you're not a U of T student

The pen is mightier than the Camorra

One of my favourite writers

Italian-Canadian comic actor and writer, famous as boozy celebrity chef "Marcello Sebastiano" on SCTV, currently behind bars

Organetto whiz kid

Addio Maestro

Bella ragazza

His blog

His YouTube channel

Scientist, oncologist, senator, vegetarian

One of Italy's most popular blogs