Comments on: Resources post – Italian – help please!!

By: hharicot

hharicot — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:52:38 +0000

yes, we do have it – and accidentally 2 of the yellow workbook one – sigh! but at least we like both of them. thankyou for all the ideas

By: Italian « To the Manor Born

Italian « To the Manor Born — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:26:06 +0000

[...] friend had been googling extensively for PetitsHaricots for interesting, accessible and mostly free Italian [...]

By: mich

mich — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:04:18 +0000

I’m not clear whether you have the italian for children cd set you’ve linked to. We have it if you’d like to have a look at it.

We have Italian games too, must get them out.

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:42:56 +0000

I had Contatti (did Italian at adult Ed class for a term – was supposed to be 2 terms but I was bored as it was so slow so gave up) and I think we used the book and tapes separately as well as together. There’s the usborne beginners book and audio too – I found I got on much better with the Welsh version if I just listened to the cd and didn’t bother trying to read it as well, lol, so we had that in the car for quite a while. What’s on the bbc site? Anything like Mi Vida Loca for Italian?

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:11:30 +0000

a proper google thankyou kirsty

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:47:04 +0000

I like them because they’re free Oh and they don’t take up space on my bookshelves!!

A few links….

http://www.sunderlandschools.org/mfl-sunderland/resources-italian.htm

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=&pnum=1&cnum=1&text=&lang=English&ilangcode=en&ilang=English&langid=63

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/

http://www.junior.rai.it/dl/junior/junior.htm

Also an idea I saw was Disney Topolino comics (mickey mouse in italian afaik) – there is one on ebay… http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sis.html?_nkw=topolino+comics

Now, to see if this comment posts or is flagged!!

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:34:52 +0000

an epic comment kirsty v helpful tho, had never thought of podcasts on youtube. brilliant idea thanks

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:26:15 +0000

I’ll have more to add, but I think what I would look for at the moment is a podcast or a series of you tube videos. It’s free, you could download the podcast to your phone and listen in the car and then watch the videos later. I came across this one https://www.youtube.com/user/italianpod101 which has about 150 videos on so plenty to have a try with.

Having completely ignored podcasts in the past few years I’m finding loads of good stuff on there. Fairy tales in italian, radio programmes, and loads of language courses, you could try lots of them. You might find some that have extras you can buy on their site.

Maybe also look at the Practise Makes Perfect workbooks? I’m using the Basic Spanish one myself and M & A could do it too if they wanted, but they aren’t self directed kids really.

We’re really enjoying the mish mash of different things we do. We’re doing GP Spanish, but like SB think it is a little dry. So for us we also read aloud from a picture book, listen to podcasts – some teaching, some immersion. We watch kids programmes a lot from you tube, sometimes watching uk version first then spanish. The kids do a spanish class too but really that’s not teaching them much extra words, but is hopefully helping with confidence in actually speaking.

Wah, that was quite an epic comment for a start!