Italian Culture

Dive into the World of Italian with 69 Short Italian Stories for Beginners! Begin or continue your journey to mastering Italian with this engaging collection, designed specifically for A1/A2 learners. This audiobook offers a unique way to deepen your understanding of the language and rich Italian culture.

Listen to everyday words and phrases in Italian, then repeat, practise and refine! A relaxing way to pick up the language. Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources Covers the words you need for modern life in Italy with topics on home life, work...

Are you learning Italian? Knowing more words is one of the best ways to speak and understand more Italian. And, if you want to sound like a native speaker, you'll need vocab that's relevant to Italian culture and daily life and that is actually used by Italian people. With Learn Italian: Discover Italian Culture & Traditions by ItalianPod101.com, you learn the must-know vocab and Italian cultural insights that you won't find in a textbook.

If you want to discover the captivating history of Italy and Rome, then this audiobook is for you. It includes two books: History of Italy and History of Rome. It covers topics ranging from the founding and early settlements to the modern history.

Fall in love with Italy all over again. There are endless reasons to love Italy. This beautiful country has us hooked on morning espressos and afternoon spritzes, bowls of pasta and slices – oh, so many slices – of pizza. It has us wearing chic street style, admiring great art, driving...

A simple foreign phrase book? Che pizza! Speak the World: Italian teaches you the language and so much more. Margherita Berti, the talented linguist behind the wildly popular Italian Matters (5M+ followers!), shares her love for the language, culture, and history of Italy. In bocca al lupo!...

When people think of ancient Italy, the Romans are usually the first and last people that come to mind, but long before Rome was built by Latin-speaking people, the culture of Italy was dominated by the Etruscans. Although the Etruscans may not comprise the core of most histories of the ancient Mediterranean, they exerted a profound influence on the region from the 8th-5th centuries BCE that continued to resonate for centuries after as the Romans carried on many of their traditions.

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to...

This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother.

The best Italian stories are those who capture our imagination and fill us with various delights. "The Adventures of Pinocchio in Wonderland" is a succession of various tales, each one very different from the others, in which the talking marionnette Pinocchio goes from mischievous adventure to enlightening redemption.

It's the summer before senior year of high school. It's supposed to be one of the biggest summers of her life, but Pippa is headed to an art program she has no interest in. The one saving grace is that it's in Italy. And when the opportunity strikes, she decides to ditch the program and travel around Italy accomplishing her own list of goals - things like swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, eating a whole pizza in one sitting… and falling in love with an Italian boy!

La cultura tradizionale che non muta mai e quella pop in continua evoluzione.