Comments on: Bella Bella! http://tobermorylanguages.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/bella-bella/ Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:43:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Graham Davies http://tobermorylanguages.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/bella-bella/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Graham Davies Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:36:11 +0000 http://tobermorylanguages.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/bella-bella/#comment-4 I learned basic conversational Italian many years ago from a BBC TV course, with an accompanying book, called Buongiorno Italia. It worked well for me on many holidays that I spent in Italy in the 1980s. The BBC Languages site has a good basic course in Italian, Italian Steps: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/lj/ Above all, you need to practise speaking Italian, recording your own voice and playing it back to see what you sound like - and there are no Web-based materials that I know of that allow you to do this. But you can do this with a CD-ROM-based course, e.g. the Talk Now and World Talk series published by EuroTalk: http://www.eurotalk.co.uk I used the EuroTalk courses to learn basic Polish. They helped me get my tongue round the horrendous consonant clusters, e.g. "przepraszam!" ("sorry!"). By the way, I was one of the consultants that helped the BBC develop the German Steps course, which is similar to the above Italian course: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/ I learned basic conversational Italian many years ago from a BBC TV course, with an accompanying book, called Buongiorno Italia. It worked well for me on many holidays that I spent in Italy in the 1980s. The BBC Languages site has a good basic course in Italian, Italian Steps:

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

Above all, you need to practise speaking Italian, recording your own voice and playing it back to see what you sound like – and there are no Web-based materials that I know of that allow you to do this. But you can do this with a CD-ROM-based course, e.g. the Talk Now and World Talk series published by EuroTalk:

http://www.eurotalk.co.uk

I used the EuroTalk courses to learn basic Polish. They helped me get my tongue round the horrendous consonant clusters, e.g. “przepraszam!” (”sorry!”).

By the way, I was one of the consultants that helped the BBC develop the German Steps course, which is similar to the above Italian course:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/

]]> By: Joe Dale http://tobermorylanguages.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/bella-bella/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Joe Dale Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:16:55 +0000 http://tobermorylanguages.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/bella-bella/#comment-2 Hi Lynne, Great blog, very interesting. I wish you all the best with it. Here's a post I wrote today about the project called 'Italian Mother Blog keeps Mull on the ball' http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/08/italian_mother_.html Best wishes Joe Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom - www.joedale.typepad.com Hi Lynne,

Great blog, very interesting. I wish you all the best with it.

Here’s a post I wrote today about the project called ‘Italian Mother Blog keeps Mull on the ball’

http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/08/italian_mother_.html

Best wishes

Joe

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom – http://www.joedale.typepad.com

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