I’ll be brief, at least today, as I have a busy morning ahead of me.
First of all, here’s today’s free Italian listening comprehension. The level is C2 (proficiency), but there’s a transcript, so it’s basically useful for anyone with the patience to give it a try. Click here.
As always I’ll include a link to our Free Italian Exercises page, where you can find materials at other (easier) levels.
Next, thanks to everyone who purchased our latest Italian easy reader, ‘La montagna‘. Hope you’re finding it useful, and either way, please take a moment to leave a review in our online shop (to leave a review, go to the shop, click on the image for the product you want to review, scroll down to the ‘Reviews’ tab, click that, and follow the instructions…)
Lastly today, some news on what’s coming over the summer…
The advanced listening series has another two weeks or so to run. After that, we’ll begin a series of forty new Italian grammar exercises, covering all the main areas from B1 (intermediate) up to C2 (proficiency).
In addition to these new exercises, we’ll also be reorganising the material on our site, so as to make things easier to find. Did you know, for example, that we have a verb conjugator with 602 verbs? Or an index of Italian grammar lessons?
Thought not! That’s why we need to tidy up a bit. So, that’ll be happening this coming month, and it will hopefully make the site easier for you to use.
Other than the reorg, and the forty new exercises, you have four new Italian easy readers to look forward to, three of them by a talented pair of Italian teachers, Emanuele and Michela, who we’ll be publishing here for the first time. They’ve written an amusing love story set in Rome, a murder mystery, and a ghost story!
Plus, we’ll have the next book by Enrico Maso, author of ‘La montagna‘, ‘Cielo libero‘ and ‘Ciak si gira‘. His new story is about a guy who is feeling old and decides to train for a marathon…
So, lots to look foward to over the summer!
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Maria Iramendy says
Ciao Daniel:
Prima di tutto, tantissime grazie per questi audio. Ho una domanda. Nell’audio Teatri, quando lo apro appare un testo: “an error has occurred in the script on this page.” Perché?
Inoltre, non capisco cosa vuole dire: “balzati agli onori della cronaca.”
Per di più mi piacerebbe sapere se dove dice: ne era stata disposta la chiusura, non dovrebbe essere n’era?
Finalmente, vorrei sapere se ci sono delle regole per usare le doppie consonanti. Trovo molto difficile scrivere parole con la doppia consonante perché non so ne quando ne come usarli.
Daniel says
Ciao Maria,
ho controllato l’audio – per me, funziona bene, nessun ‘errore’. Riprova anche tu.
‘Balzare’ significa ‘saltare’, all’attenzione della stampa (giornali).
Solitamente ‘ne’ non si apostrafa, invece ‘ci’ sì.
Per quanto riguarda le consonanti doppie, la regola è che ‘Prima di una doppia consonante la vocale è breve, invece se la consonante è singola la vocale è lunga.’
C’è un esercizio qui: http://onlineitalianclub.com/free-italian-exercises-and-resources/italian-listening-exercises/le-consonanti-doppie-ascolto-a1/