Tuesday, September 26, 2006

ITALIAN TV ON MY SITES (12 ITALIAN CHANNELS)



On my site (in English) “HOW TO LEARN ITALIAN”:

http://xoomer.alice.it/learn_italian
(and also on my site in Italian “essere in due” http://xoomer.alice.it/eventually)

you can now watch 12 Italian TV channels (naturally absolutely free). Enjoy Italian TV!
This is the list of TV stations you can find there.

1) Rai News 24 - site
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ - A public TV news channel 24/7. The most popular news channel in Italy.
2) Rai Utile - site http://www.raiutile.rai.it/ - "Utile" means useful, you can find here specialized programs about health service, school, university, welfare, end a lot of other interesting things.
3) Sardegna1 - site not yet available - A regional channel from Sardinia, about cultural identity, tradition and how Sardinia is going to find hits way to progress, and to industrial development.
4) Ermes TV - site http://www.ermes.net/tv.php - About tourism and territory.
5) Class News - site http://www.classcity.it/class_city/contenuti/classcity.htm - A news channel.
6) 3 Channel - site http://www.3channel.it/ - General TV channel.
7) Exformat - site not available - High speed television (1200 kps), to watch full screen.
8) TV Oggi - site http://www.tvoggisalerno.it/ - A general TV station from Salerno
9) Sat 2000 - site http://www.sat2000.it/ - Catholic television well known in Italy.
10) CFN/CNBC - site not available - Financial news from Milan
11) Roma 1 - Typical Roma channel, everything about my beautiful city.
12) Vatican TV - site http://www.radiovaticana.org/

Sunday, September 24, 2006

LEARN ITALIAN


FIRST IN ITALIAN... THEN IN ENGLISH
first in Italian...

Cari lettori,
Come posso vedere, c’è qualcuno ed io potrei dire almeno un piccolo gruppo dei miei lettori che usa regolarmente il mio sito “Come imparare l’Italiano”

Bene… non so se siete capaci di leggere l’Italiano, forse potete… ecco perché ho avviato questa nuova pagina “Lettera ai mie lettori” (Prima in Italiano… dopo in Inglese). Potrebbe essere uno strumento utile per praticare l’Italiano… leggere qualche breve lettera in Italiano e tradurla in Inglese. Niente di difficile se le vostre capacità nella lingua italiana vi permettono di leggere e di capire.
Aggiungerò talvolta delle note grammaticali al testo italiano per farvi capire più esattamente perché questa o quella espressione è usata in questo o in quell’altro modo.
Se ci fosse fra i miei lettori qualcuno che volesse aiutare il mio povero Inglese correggendo i miei errori, io gli sarei molto grato(* see GRAMMAR NOTES[column on your left] - JUST A LITTLE ITALIAN 5)… Il mio sito potrebbe migliorare e io potrei imparare un Inglese migliore… cosa alla quale sono molto interessato.
Quando ritornate su questo sito controllate subito la sezione “Lettera ai miei lettori”… spero che ci posiate trovare qualcosa di utile. Per il momento grazie.
Sto andando a tradurre questo messaggio in Italiano e ad aggiungere le note grammaticali.
Cari amici, dovete ricordare sempre che “qui non c’è nulla di commerciale, solo cose amichevoli”… quindi nulla da temere, nulla di cui preoccuparsi… dovete solo rompere il ghiaccio… alcuni amici lo hanno già fatto e devo ringraziarli! …
Ricordate: in Inglese, se volete in Francese (per i Canadesi, ma anche ovviamente in Italiano, la mia lingua madre… devo ricordare che alcuni tra i miei amici scambiano lettere con me usando lo Spagnolo e io bosso capirlo… ovviamente le mie risposte sono in Inglese, ma questo non è mai stato un problema.
Grazie, vi sto aspettando…
Con amicizia, il Vostro webmaster.

...then in English

Dear readers,
As I can see, there is someone and I could say at list a little group of my readers that use regularly this site “How to learn Italian”

Well… I don’t know if you are able to read Italian, perhaps you can… that’s why I started this new page “Mail to my readers” (First in Italian… then in English). It would be an useful instrument to practise Italian… read some short Italian letters and translate into English. Nothing difficult if your Italian language skills allow you to read and understand.
I’ll add sometimes grammar notes to the Italian text to let you understand more exactly why this or that expression is used this o that way.
If there is among my readers someone who would help my poor English correcting my mistakes I’ll be very grateful… My site could better and I could learn a better English… what I’m very interested to.
When you came back to this website check first the section “Mail to my readers”… I hope you can find here something useful. Thanks for now.
I’m going to translate this message into Italian and to add grammar notes.
Dear friends… you have always to remember that “nothing commercial here but only friendly”… therefore nothing to fear, nothing to worry about… you only have to break the ice… some friends did it yet and I have to thank them! … Remember: in English, in French if you like (for Canadian people), but also obviously in Italian, my mother language… I have to remember that someone between my friends exchange letters with me using also Spanish, I’m not skilled in Spanish but I can understand… obviously my responses are in English, but this was never a problem .
Thank you. I’m waiting for you…
Friendly, Your webmaster.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Write, write, write!

What am I going to tell you with this little communication?
Easy to explicate. I got messages from abroad on my Yahoo!360 and also got a lot of visits from USA on my site “How to learn Italian”
I hope the message exchange will continue on Yahoo!360, or, better, on my Forum. And that’s one… and my readers from USA? … They read my sites, especially “How to learn Italian” and “Italian culture in pills”, and spend their time on my sites (more or less, 10 minutes each)… I’m very proud of that but I can’t start a true conversation with my readers, they read but never write anything… Now for the fist time I added on my site “How to learn Italian” a little list of my readers (only country and location) accustomed to go back to my sites several times. I hope this expedient will encourage them to write a post for my forum… I hope they wouldn’t stop reading my websites… My only aim in building my sites is to get in touch with English speaking people and my site’s philosophy is “Noting commercial here but only friendly!”