Spanish language learning - a new blog

If you're interested in learning Spanish, or in any aspect of the Spanish culture, you may want to visit my new blog Learn Spanish with Maria Fernandez.

There you'll find my free podcasts and videocasts, lessons from my online course for beginners, free advice on how to learn the language, language learning material reviews, music videos, movie reviews, and a lot more.

Harry Potter in Italian

Finding the Harry Potter books in Italian isn't always easy, but this link will take you to a site dedicated exclusively to Harry Potter products, and they've got all the Italian editions.

You can buy new and used Harry Potter books, as well as all the movies. Each product comes with plenty of information and the site couldn't be easier to navigate.

Rosetta Stone Italian – software demo

Are you thinking of getting an Italian course? If you are, you’re probably finding it difficult to find demos of the courses you’ve come across. Here’s a free demo of the Rosetta Stone Italian software.

Rosetta Stone Italian comes in three levels. They all follow the structure shown in this demo. As you’ll see, the lessons are nicely laid out and are easy to follow. There are pictures to illustrate everything you learn, and they’re often accompanied by a sound button where you can hear the Italian words represented on the pictures and written on the screen. All the sound has been recorded by native Italian speakers.

As the demo shows, the speaking and listening exercises encourage you to speak from the beginning and develop your conversation skills fast. To help you acquire a good Italian accent, this software also allows you to record yourself and it then analyses your pronunciation.