{"id":465,"date":"2020-01-28T05:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:45:41","slug":"listening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"border: 15px groove;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;width: 100%\">\n<blockquote style=\"border: 5px dotted;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;margin: 0px;padding: 15px 35px 35px 25px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;Transitioning from an academic setting to the real world is a challenge for every language learner, especially when it comes to listening comprehension. In the classroom professors speak slowly and clearly, using familiar vocabulary and simple sentence structures. In the real world however, listening to spoken Italian can easily become overwhelming. <strong>Below are some resources that can facilitate the development of listening comprehension and teach listeners about Italian culture and society:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-top: 5px dotted #000000;padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 0px;border-left: #ffffff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 20px\">\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLvGU98jQqwRc7J_6ZxCS9EiWJxcIGEAPB\">ItalianPod101<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is a YouTube channel featuring short videos about daily life in Italy. Videos are no longer than five minutes and are geared towards helping beginner and intermediate level language learners improve their conversational skills and listening comprehension.&nbsp;<em>Example topics: Reserving a hotel room, shopping for an outfit, seeing a movie<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/speechling.com\/listening\/italian\">Speechling<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is a nonprofit language-learning platform focused on speaking, but it also has 1000s of listening exercises. Not only do they have a robust collection of audio phrasebooks, but listeners can also choose the speed of audio playback, making it a useful tool for all levels.&nbsp;<em>Example topics: Asking for help, weather, ordering at a restaurant<\/em><\/li>\n<li>If you love learning with TV shows, you\u2019ll enjoy&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/italian\/\">FluentU<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>and its collection of music videos, movie trailers, and news segments. Featuring all the best Italian video content with the option for Italian subtitles or English translations, FluentU is basically YouTube for language learners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Transitioning from an academic setting to the real world is a challenge for every language learner, especially when it comes to listening comprehension. In the classroom professors speak slowly and clearly, using familiar vocabulary and simple sentence structures. In the real world however, listening to spoken Italian can easily become overwhelming. Below are some resources&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7869,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}