- Google.it and Yahoo! Italia are Italian versions of the popular search engine and web directory.
- Virgilio - la guida Italiana ad Internet.
- Italian Cultural Institute in London, and the Italian Embassy in London.
News & media on-line
- La Repubblica
- Corriere della Sera
- La Stampa
- Il Manifesto
- Google News Italia allows you to search and browse hundreds of continuously updated news sources.
- Virgilio Notizie - la guida all'informazione online
- A number of other Italian journals are housed at La Città Invisibile.
- Rai Tre - as seen in the Language Learning Centre here in the Sussex Centre for Language Studies. Rai also have an entertaining multimedia archive searchable by year.
Teaching resources
- BBC Languages have some good resources for learning Italian. Look out for La Mappa Misteriosa, an Italian learning drama in which the viewer is one of the protagonists - we have the DVD version in the Language Learning Centre too.
- LearnItalianPod - learn Italian with free podcasts (though you can pay for transcripts and exercises).
- Oggi e Domani is an interactive course from basics with a good variety of materials, courtesy of Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
- Grammatica Italiana - rules, syntax & spelling (in Italian).
- Matdid - materials for the teaching of Italian to foreigners.
- Corsi d'italiano multimediali
- Web Italian Lessons by Lucio Chiappetti - basic words and phrases.
- Garzanti have both a monolingual and English<->Italian dictionaries.
- Il Vocabolario Etimologico di Pianigiani - web version of a famous Italian etymological dictionary, also usable as a general monolingual dictionary.
- La biblioteca digitale della letteratura italiana carries free PDFs from over 200 authors including the classics; and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa has some well-chosen links to other literature resources.
- Letteratura.it - Il portale a servizio della letteratura italiana: ricerche bibliografiche, riviste letterarie…
- Society for Italian Studies - supporting academic Italian studies in the British Isles.
- British-Italian Society organises events for lovers of Italy and Italian culture.
Sources for further research...
- Italian Language Test - discover your Italian skill level.
- About.com Guide to Italian Language - original articles, lessons, exercises and lots of links, plus bulletin board and chat room.
- Years of Dolce Vita - showcasing Italy 1955-1965, a collaboration between Cinecittà and Google
- La Città Invisibile