I'm learning Italian and i need some suggestions

[Ava]

I'm doing the rosetta stone italian course and going with the whole immersion thing. i need some suggestions for some good italian music and movies if you have them.

thanks! :D

[devilgrrl]

1. Federico Fellini's 'La Strada', 'La Dolce Vita', 'Nights of Caberia'....

anything by Vittorio De Sica - 'Ladri di biciclette' 'Umberto D' 'La Ciociara' é 'Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini'

tutto e molto bene. :-)

[likesmountains 52]

2. buy some italian music cds and listen to the lyrics...pretty soon you'll have a better

understanding of verb tenses etc.

[DS1]

3. spicy meatball

lesson complete

oh, and Ferrari = chick magnet

[Ava]

4. pfffttt

dork :P

[brook]

5. "The Best of Youth"

Fantastic Italian movie. Follows two brothers through divergent paths over 40 years. Be warned it's 2 discs, about 7 hours long. Breathtaking scenery, photography, quirky storyline (like life)-and the brothers are very easy on the eyes.

[lost-in-nj]

6. Please what ever you do

do not ask what
fanabala ah fungul means.....

promise???!?!?!?!?!?!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

lost

[jakefrep]

7. For Italian pop music....

Go to YouTube and do a search for "sanremo". You'll get a bunch of performances like these from the Sanremo Music Festival:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtbarEurS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDcruiGdQxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-1XEKILMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2l3s-5PYw

[tjwmason]

8. Opera

My Italian isn't great (to say the least), but with only a short English synopsis I followed Aida right through - this being without surtitles in either language.

[SKKY]

9. "Life is Beautiful"...

One of the best movies of all time, in any language. By the way, this is being posted from Italy. I'm in Naples for the week!

[Richard Steele]

10. Move to Italy.

Just sayin- you want "immersion", then IMMERSE already.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Operas in Italian.

If you can see one live, they will have the English projected on a screen above the stage, if it's a big concert hall. This is called Surtitles and totally turned me on to opera. That was when I got it.

If you can watch a DVD it should have English subtitles. That helps in the same way.

The best Opera DVD I know of that is absolutely stunning visually is Tosca:In the Times and Places with Catherine Malfitano and Placido Domingo. They filmed it in Rome in the actual settings. The Castel Sant'Angelo is flown over at the beginning and at the end you can see the dome of Saint Peter's in the background.

Light pleasant and enjoyable stuff in Italian: Mozart. Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni are full of good stuff. L'Elisir d'Amore by Donizetti is a comedy and lots of fun to watch. So is The Barber of Seville by Rossini.

Puccini and Mozart are good stuff.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

12. As a 100% italian, born and raised

Movies: La vita e` bella (Life is Beautiful) is magnificent. The Fellini suggestions are also good. Il Postino and Mediterraneo are also good choices. If you want to go a bit extreme, try to find some old Dario Argento movies (he does horror) still in Italian. Also comedies with Toto`, Italy's most popular comedian, are cool.

Music: be very careful about purchasing compilations of 'Italian' music as many pieces are not really in Italian, but rather in local regional dialects. O Sole Mio, for instance, is in dialect from Naples and it is not standard Italian, so try to avoid confusion. If you have iTunes, you can pick Italy as your country and see what's popular there. I never liked Italian pop music, but there is plenty of it of all genres - including rock and hip hop. Opera is a good suggestion, but there too the Italian used is very poetic and not necessarily standard, but at least you can get your ear used to the sounds.

As a teacher of Italian to adults, I believe that getting used to the sounds of words, even if you don't know the meaning, is a very important and fundamental step in learning a language.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Italian Progressive Rock bands -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_progressive_rock

PFM, Le Orme, Museo Rosenbach and Il Balletto Di Bronzo are good ones.

Per Un Amico by PFM and Felona E Sorona by Le Orme are my favorites.

[tuckessee]

14. Get a shortwave radio

and listen to Italian broadcasts.