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The Sons of Italy offers
Made In Italy, a completely Internet-based Italian
language course.
Made in Italy is a seven-level comprehensive
Italian program with over 200 hours of instruction
by native speakers of Italian. It offers an innovative,
multimedia approach to learning Italian and is ideal
for students, businesspeople, tourists or anyone
striving to learn Italian from school, work or home.
Each lesson has a dialogue followed by online tutorials
in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and colloquial terms.
Visit www.madeinitalynet.it
to take a free placement test and try a demo lesson.
How To Purchase Made In
Italy?
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 The
MLA
Language Map,
using data from the 2000 United States census,
displays the locations and numbers of speakers
of Italian and the thirty languages most commonly
spoken in the United States.
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 Lago
del Bosco, the Italian Language Village of Concordia
Language Villages, celebrated a successful inaugural
summer in 2003. More than 100 participants from
23 states joined a staff from all over the Italian-speaking
world to take part in one of two, two-weeks sessions
of immersion learning. These "villagers"
spent their days playing Italian sports and games;
taking part in Italian art, music, and theater activities;
and enjoying delicious and authentic Italian meals
… entirely in the Italian language!
Programming will continue at Lago del Bosco
in the summer of 2004. Along with two, two-week
sessions, the Village will also offer a four-week
high school credit session. For a listing of dates
for sessions at Lago del Bosco in summer
2004, visit the Language Villages' Web site: www.ConcordiaLanguageVillages.org.
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 See
Italy as it sees itself on SCOLA TV! SCOLA
is a non-profit educational organization transmitting
international television programs for educational
use via satellite and is the leading provider of
authentic language programming in North America.
SCOLA's mission is to help the people of the world
learn about one another; their cultures, their languages,
and their ideologies.
As an OSIA educational partner, SCOLA airs a 60-second
OSIA commercial during its daily Italian language
programming that highlights OSIA's national "Adopt-A-School"
program.
SCOLA's programming reaches 200 colleges in North
America and 1,200 K-12 schools through select cable
service areas.
Visit SCOLA online at www.scola.org.
Help us get SCOLA into more homes and classrooms
by writing your local cable company:
Downloads:
- View the OSIA public service
announcement airing daily on SCOLA TV (Windows
Media Video format)
- Sample letter
to cable company (MS Word)
- U.S. cable company
mailing addresses (Adobe PDF)
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College
Board Adds Italian to AP Program
Italian teachers interested in receiving formal
announcements of all professional development opportunities
should send their contact information to apitalian@collegeboard.org.
It is important that Italian teachers be offered
additional opportunities to gain insights on AP
course content and new pedagogical methodologies
and resources, and these could be offered as professional
development through school districts, in collaboration
with local universities and the department of education
in the various states. The national American Association
of Teachers of Italian will explore the possibilities
of requesting grants for special AP training and
workshops offered by various federal agencies.
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Italian
language enrollments in U.S.
High Schools & Colleges |
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OSIA
Italian language enrollment article in the November
2002 issue of Language Magazine. |
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Links
to Italian Newspapers and News Services |
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Start
Italian in your school [kit]
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Knowing
Other Languages Brings Opportunities brochure, Courtesy
of the Modern Language Association |
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English/Italian,
Italian/English Translation Tool
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Why
study Italian? (as PDF file - 8KB) |
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Vocabulary
building: Learning new Italian phrases |
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Members enjoy: |
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Discounts
on studying in Italy |
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"Parliamo
Italiano" online forum [ask questions and chat
with other students that are studying Italian] |
