{"id":476,"date":"2020-01-28T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/?page_id=476"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:45:50","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"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;Though people often say the best way to learn a language is to a country where you can become fully immersed in it, learning how to listen or speak does not provide everything needed to become fluent.&nbsp;Reading is one of the best ways to learn sentence structure, improve grammar, and expose yourself to new vocabulary. <strong>Below are some resources that can facilitate the development of reading comprehension and tech listeners about Italian culture and society:&nbsp;<\/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\"><p><strong>BEGINNERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/learnamo.com\/en\/reading-comprehensions\/\">Learnamo<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;has a wide variety of reading comprehension exercises for beginner and intermediate Italian learners. Most are not more than a paragraph or two in length plus a few questions to test comprehension.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/lingua.com\/italian\/reading\/\">Lingua.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has plenty of short texts geared towards beginner and intermediate level Italian learners. Most exercises are composed of 2-3 paragraphs of text followed by 4-6 questions to test comprehension. While the topics may not be very exciting, they touch on lots of important and useful vocabulary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote style=\"border-top: 5px dotted #000000;padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 0px;border-left: #ffffff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 20px\"><p><strong>INTERMEDIATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/saberitaliano.com.ar\/reading\/index.html\">Saber Italiano<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;has a collection of short articles and stories aimed towards intermediate level Italian learners. Most articles are about 1 page in length and are followed by 4-6 questions to test comprehension. Topics include the Italian government, the history of pizza, and soccer in Italy.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.italymagazine.com\/\">ITALY Magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;is loaded with articles about contemporary life in Italy. Though many articles are written in English, there is dual-language selection with a wide variety of articles written in both English and Italian. Readers can easily toggle between languages using the tabs at the top of the article.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dilit.it\/en\/doc\/learn-Italian-language\/reading_a_short_story.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">Divulgazione Lingua Italiana<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;gives a helpful outline of how to choose a short story that is suitable for your level and provides links to several websites with all different types of literature for all levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote style=\"border-top: 5px dotted #000000;padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 0px;border-left: #ffffff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 20px\"><p><strong>ADVANCED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/\">La Repubblica<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;is a popular Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Because it is geared towards native speakers, advanced students may find it useful for learning more advanced vocabulary as well as staying current in Italian news.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liberliber.it\/online\/\">Liber Liber<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;is an e-book and audiobook database that offers free downloads of works by many Italian authors. Geared towards native speakers, there are no parallel translations of the text into English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Though people often say the best way to learn a language is to a country where you can become fully immersed in it, learning how to listen or speak does not provide everything needed to become fluent.&nbsp;Reading is one of the best ways to learn sentence structure, improve grammar, and expose yourself to new vocabulary&#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\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}