Dictionaries & Co.
Accademia della Crusca - Risposte ai quesitiThe oldest linguistic academy in the world and the main authority on the Italian language. Answers to questions. In Italian.
Vocabolario TreccaniPublisher of a highly authoritative encyclopaedia in Italian, with a searchable dictionary. Our language bible! In Italian.
Dizionario etimologico di Ottorino PianigianiSearchable digital version of an etimological dictionary from 1907. Not always reliable, but still an interesting reading.
Dizionario italiano-inglese CollinsUnabridged online edition of Collins Italian-English & English-Italian dictionary.
Dizionario WordReference IT-ENA comprehensive online dictionary, supported by a vast community of native speakers.
Books
Textbooks in English
Marcel Danesi, Complete Italian Grammar (2016)
Collins, Easy Learning Italian Conversation (2015)
Marcel Danesi, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation (2017)
Readings in Italian
M. Arcangeli, E. Boncinelli, Le magnifiche 100: Dizionario delle parole immateriali (2017, ITA)
Nick Roberts (ed.), Short Stories in Italian: New Penguin Parallel Text (2001, ITA-ENG)
Jacob Blakesley (ed.), Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: A Dual-Language Book (2013, ITA-ENG)
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Twitter Accounts
Reliable resources that you can follow for your daily dose of good Italian:
Daily Italian Words - Mat & Heather from Turin, tweeting a word a day. Audio & more details on their Website. Italian with Susanna - Daily tweets about vocabulary, idioms, false friends, etc. explained in English. Dite - Learn Italian with Nicco - Daily words matched to beautiful artworks, grammar tests & more. Ishita Sood - Italophilia - Indian blogger tweeting about Italy and learning Italian. Read her blog here. Rai Cultura - Tweets about RAI TV cultural programmes - music, art, history, education.
