#italian resources

[sayitaliano]

Hi I am trying to learn Italian simply as a hobby and interest in the language and since I like old films I wanted to ask are there popular italian films from the 50s or so I can try watching for my learning? It would help me understand the culture as well, thank you!

Ciao! In the resources masterpost (here or on @sayitalianohome) you can find lot of links regarding different and various medias, among which lists of old movies. Not sure if they're all from the 50s, but I guess you can find more on YT as well among the suggested ones!

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[dreamdolldeveloper]

back to basics

mostly free resources to help you learn the basics that i've gathered for myself so far that i think are cool

everyday

gcfglobal - about the internet, online safety and for kids, life skills like applying for jobs, career planning, resume writing, online learning, today's skills like 3d printing, photoshop, smartphone basics, microsoft office apps, and mac friendly. they have core skills like reading, math, science, language learning - some topics are sparse so hopefully they keep adding things on. great site to start off on learning.

handsonbanking - learn about finances. after highschool, credit, banking, investing, money management, debt, goal setting, loans, cars, small businesses, military, insurance, retirement, etc.

bbc - learning for all ages. primary to adult. arts, history, science, math, reading, english, french, all the way to functional and vocational skills for adults as well, great site!

education.ket - workplace essential skills

general education

mathsgenie - GCSE revision, grade 1-9, math stages 1-14, provides more resources! completely free.

khan academy - pre-k to college, life skills, test prep (sats, mcat, etc), get ready courses, AP, partner courses like NASA, etc. so much more!

aleks - k-12 + higher ed learning program. adapts to each student.

biology4kids - learn biology

cosmos4kids - learn astronomy basics

chem4kids - learn chemistry

physics4kids - learn physics

numbernut - math basics (arithmetic, fractions and decimals, roots and exponents, prealgebra)

education.ket - primary to adult. includes highschool equivalent test prep, the core skills. they have a free resource library and they sell workbooks. they have one on work-life essentials (high demand career sectors + soft skills)

youtube channels

the organic chemistry tutor

khanacademy

crashcourse

tabletclassmath

2minmaths

kevinmathscience

professor leonard

greenemath

mathantics

3blue1brown

literacy

readworks - reading comprehension, build background knowledge, grow your vocabulary, strengthen strategic reading

chompchomp - grammar knowledge

tutors

not the "free resource" part of this post but sometimes we forget we can be tutored especially as an adult. just because we don't have formal education does not mean we can't get 1:1 teaching! please do you research and don't be afraid to try out different tutors. and remember you're not dumb just because someone's teaching style doesn't match up with your learning style.

cambridge coaching - medical school, mba and business, law school, graduate, college academics, high school and college process, middle school and high school admissions

preply - language tutoring. affordable!

revolutionprep - math, science, english, history, computer science (ap, html/css, java, python c++), foreign languages (german, korean, french, italian, spanish, japanese, chinese, esl)

varsity tutors - k-5 subjects, ap, test prep, languages, math, science & engineering, coding, homeschool, college essays, essay editing, etc

chegg - biology, business, engineering/computer science, math, homework help, textbook support, rent and buying books

learn to be - k-12 subjects

for languages

lingq - app. created by steve kaufmann, a polygot (fluent in 20+ languages) an amazing language learning platform that compiles content in 20+ languages like podcasts, graded readers, story times, vlogs, radio, books, the feature to put in your own books! immersion, comprehensible input.

flexiclasses - option to study abroad, resources to learn, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, italian, russian, taiwanese hokkien, shanghainese.

fluentin3months - bootcamp, consultation available, languages: spanish, french, korean, german, chinese, japanese, russian, italian.

fluenz - spanish immersion both online and in person - intensive.

pimsleur - not tutoring** online learning using apps and their method. up to 50 languages, free trial available.

incase time has passed since i last posted this, check on the original post (not the reblogs) to see if i updated link or added new resources. i think i want to add laguage resources at some point too but until then, happy learning!!

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[h0neytalk]

Favorite VERY BASIC Comprehensible Input Sources I’ve Found (all free)

These are all for Italian and Arabic (MSA + Levantine dialect) and suitable for A1! I’ve found the very early stages are the hardest to find stuff for but also when it’s the most boring to be confined to flashcards and memorizing so hopefully this helps. Also it keeps me from losing these links.

Italian:

Curioso come George (Italian Curious George, honestly a lot of kids shows can get tiring but Curious George doesn’t hit that “annoying” pitch while still being simple) (link is to one episode but you can find tons in the related vids) (also segments are themed so you can find ones that roughly correlate to a unit of vocab like weather or clothes)

Ardea Digitale Schoolbooks (schoolbooks for children that you can download as PDFs along with workbooks/worksheets)

Arabic (MSA)

Read Learn Play Arabic (cannot speak highly enough of this one it’s so good and there’s so much and idk how it isn’t talked about more)

Cartoon Network MENA (good just because the material is recognizable, obviously usefulness of vocab/level is gonna vary by show)

Arabic (Levantine Dialect)

Sesame Street! Aka Ahlan Simsim. (Some segments are more advanced than others obviously but it’s incredible for learning the sound of the dialect and is also not grating for adults imo) (free on YouTube)

Lingualism Diaries (not nearly as beginner friendly as Read Learn Play but definitely doable within a few weeks assuming you know the alphabet) (also has audio versions)

I highly recommend lingualism.com for a ton of Arabic materials in all sorts of dialects/levels but they’re mostly paid (not expensive! But not free) and this post is meant to compile free stuff.

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[reddamien]

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[tearsofbriseis]

FRANCESCA PAGNANELLI

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[intersex-support]

Intersex Organizations

International:

Organization Intersex International: 

Map of intersex organizations

Intersex Organizations in the US:

InterACT- Advocates for Intersex Youth

Intersex Campaign for Equality  

Intersex Justice Project 

Intersex Initiative 

Houston Intersex Society

Interconnect

South America:

Organización Internacional Intersexual - Hispanoparlante 

Brujula Intersexual

Argentina Intersex

Communidad Intersex PacificoSur

Caminar Intersex

Orquidea Intersexual

OII Hispana

Intersexual Venezuela

Proyecto Intersex

Intersexuales Chile

Peru Intersex

Canada:

Intersex Canada

Africa:

Intersex South Africa

Transgender and Intersex Africa

SIPD Uganda

Intersex Nigeria

Intersex Society of Zambia

Intersex Ghana

Zimbabwe Intersex Human Rights Trust

Intersex Person's Society of Kenya

Association of Intersex Parenthood Kenya

Europe:

Organization Intersex International Europe

Intersex Russia

Intersex UK

Zwischengeschlecht (Switzerland Intersex Organization)

Belgium

Iceland

OII Italy

Italy

OII Germany

OII Austria

Ireland

Intersex Greece

Kaleidos Intersex

Scotland Against Intersex Surgery

Asia: 

Organization Intersex International Chinese

Organization Intersex International Phillipines

Intersex Asia

Intersex Nepal

Intersex Vietnam

Australia and New Zealand:

Intersex Human Rights Australia

Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand

#actuallyintersex #intersex #intersex resources #intersex organizations #if anyone knows if any more to add please let me know! this list is always a work in progress and is updated as more organizations form #a big barrier for me is that i can only really search for intersex in languages that i read #so if there are intersex orgs that don't have a name in english french spanish or italian #i really cannot find it easily #so please send in recs if you know any! #mod e #also. can't vouch for any of the ones outside of the US bc i simply don't know them

[takingontheworldtogether]

learning greek is so fun and quirky bc i'll look up "resources for learning greek" and the internet is like TOP TEN WAYS TO LEARN ANCIENT GREEK and HOW TO READ THE ILIAD and it's like have you considered that maybe i would like to speak to my extended family rather than reading a poem that is several thousand years old

#are there any other languages like this??? #where there are way more resources to learn the ancient version than the modern one??? #its so frustrating #like imagine if any time you googled how to learn italian #you got results about learning latin #language learning #greek

[tsscat]

A lot of duolingo alternatives getting posted rn which is nice except for the fact that it’s kinda reminding me exactly why I got fed up with langblr, i.e. literally only caring about the same 5 languages lol

#‘yeah here’s my duolingo alternative it has everything: French Spanish Italian Japanese and Chinese!’ #tbf duolingo was also guilty of this it just got more resources #tara talks

[littledreamling]

Hob Gadling who taught himself how to read in order to become a printer with the first book to ever be printed : the bible. Hob Gadling become knight getting a humanist education, learning Latin, Greek, Hebrew and studying the holy text in every iteration. Hob Gadling who has had plenty to reconsider about his faith throughout his life due to his immortality but never his queerness (and Hob Gadling has found out early on he is not straight), suddenly hearing the bible quoted to support homophobia out of nowhere in the 1980s. Hob Gadling pushing back and campaigning without care that he might be endangering the secret of his immortality against this "new translation". Hob Gadling till present days calling that out, loud and clear everywhere he goes to make sure any queer-secretly-religious or religious-secretly-queer kid (and not-kid-anymore) gets to hear it, because he might have his own quarrels with religion but he also knows how important faith can be to someone and he's not about to let bigots manipulate that against his people !!

Listen I’m a whore for religious Hob and this hits the nail on the head. I’m a little brain dead at the moment as I just got back from a bachelor’s party but I’ll attempt to do this ask justice (and if I don’t, I’ll come back to it because I live and breathe for Hob Gadling and all of his complexities).

The first words Hob ever heard recited to him were out of a bible. Growing up, Hob’s parents dragged him to church every day for Mass, where he would hear the Latin words wash over him like a cool, cleansing water and while he didn’t understand the words, they meant something to him nonetheless. When his parents and siblings died, either from the plague or other natural causes, he made sure they got their last rites, the words that would comfort and strengthen their souls on their journey to Heaven, and he took comfort in the fact that those same words would comfort and strengthen his own soul one day. He saw the priest, solemn and wise, cupping his bible with the reverence he showed to the bodies in the ground, a respect and adoration and dedication that shook Hob to his core.

The first book Hob ever touched was a bible. He still couldn’t read it, he simply placed the type letters where he was told, but the unadulterated joy and pride he felt, holding his very first book, the first book he had ever printed entirely by himself, was a feeling like no other. He couldn’t understand a single word of it, but he could’ve recited it with perfect clarity; he had placed that exact same type in that exact same order countless times, eliminating each mistake one at a time until every page was perfect. It wasn’t fancy, just a simple bible for a local parish, but deep down, Hob always thought of that one bible as his.

The first book Hob ever read was a bible. He had traveled to Venice and Florence, centers of Humanist learning and intellectualism, in the early 1500’s to learn Latin and Greek and Hebrew; to study Ancient Greek and Rome society and culture; to immerse himself in the knowledge of history, language, philosophy, art, and literature; to become educated in translation, letter-writing, public speaking, and military affairs; to study Plato and Aristotle and their texts on philosophy. He studied Jewish and Ottoman thought and better understood his own faith all the better for it (and then spent the next two hundred years unlearning all of the prejudices and biases that he had learned from the Christian-centric and racist tutors). From then on, he made it a point to always have a bible in his house. It was a constant between every life he lived; it was the second-to-last item he sold in the 1600’s (the last thing being his portrait of his lovely and lost Eleanor and his son Robyn) and the second thing he bought as soon as his fortune turned a tide (the first being an apple, an irony that he and Death chuckled over later). Even when England was under Protestant rule, as it would be for a long time, he kept a Latin bible tucked away, out of sight but never out of mind, and when the stresses of his daily life and the mind-bending reality of his everlasting life weighed heavily on him, he would pluck that bible off the shelf (he never had to dust it off, he kept it as clean and pristine as it was when he bought it) and let those cool, cleansing words wash over him once again.

This sounds like a fic, I just realized, and in some ways it is, but it’s also a deep reality of who Hob is and what he holds in utmost importance. I can also offer this little-known tidbit of information (that I think the Sandman fandom would benefit from knowing): homosexual relationships were incredibly common in the early Renaissance, at least in Italy (though if the Italians, with their proximity to the Papacy, were willing to risk it for the biscuit, the rest of Europe was probably jumping on the bandwagon too).

Among nobility, men were expected to marry around the age of 30 whereas women were expected to marry around the age of 15-20. Men were also expected to be sexually experienced in their marriage. So the question is, who exactly are they having sex with? And if you just said “each other” out loud, you’re absolutely correct. In Italian culture, noble men would frequently have sexual relationships with each other prior to getting married to their wives. Now, a lot of these men would never identify as homosexual as we would define it today; these sexual relationships were more along the lines of a gender role to be performed than any real attraction towards men, and it was seen as more of a mentor/mentee situation-the older man in the relationship was showing the ropes of sex to the younger man in the situation and then, when the older man got married, the younger man would then find someone younger to mentor. It was a way of building friendships and bonds, which sound laughable to us now, but were a genuine and deeply respected aspect of society; the feelings they had for each other were strictly platonic in the majority of cases (though gay people have always existed and I’m sure Hob Gadling would’ve reveled in this aspect of society) and would lead to business and family connections later down the line.

I want to stress that these connections were not romantic in nature; it was just a participation in society, but it also means that Hob Gadling has definitely had sex with men before, especially if he had (as I said about halfway through this extraordinarily long post) traveled to Italy for his education. He would’ve first been subservient (as the younger men were) and then moved to a more dominant role once enough time had passed for people to believe that he was getting closer to the age of marriage. He definitely would’ve realized that he was attracted to men then, if he hadn’t already in his hometown as a teenager. What’s more, these men engaged in homosexual relationships were also devout Catholics! Religion had absolutely nothing to do with it, and this would’ve been Hob’s first and lasting impression of homosexuality. Religion has nothing to do with it! It’s simply a part of society, an aspect of the larger culture that most ignored in favor of minding their own business. He would’ve been horribly enraged at the fact that modern Christians took up arms against homosexuality when Christians have had a long (long) (long) history of homosexuality and queerness.

And he’d teach that. In every class where it was relevant, in every conversation where it came up, in every religious debate. He’d make a point of mentioning that history that so many are so quick to cover up because it’s important. It’s important to him and it’s important to other queer people, not because it’s a part of queer history (again, for the vast majority of these men, they were not gay or queer in any way) but because it’s important to understand just how recently Christianity’s crusade against queer communities has cropped up (that’s not to say, however, that the church in any way condoned Renaissance Italian men and their gay sex because they decidedly did not, but it wasn’t an act punishable by death, nor was it punished at all. If anyone had a problem with it, it was their eventual wives, but they had a bigger issue with the prostitutes that their husbands would see on a regular basis even after their marriage).

So yes, to sum up my incredibly rambling post, Hob Gadling 100% has a very unique and deep connection with his religion, though he keeps it very separate from his relationship with his sexuality because that’s how it’s always been. He’s a Godly man and he’s a queer man and the two can coexist.

#thank you for the ask!! #this was such a delight to write #I’ve been ranting to my roommate about this for days and I’ve just been procrastinating writing a post about it #so thanks for the excuse to get it all down! #I don’t have spurces for any of this except for Dr. Clines (my wonderful history professor) #and he has a PhD in Renaissance Italian history so we all take his word as gospel #but I’m sure there are plenty of resources for anyone who wants to find them! #I can also ask my professor for some of his sources and add them if anyone wants them! #but yeah I love queer christian Hob Gadling #I’m so sorry this is so long #the sandman #sandman netflix #hob gadling #queer history #christian history #neil gaiman #sandman neil gaiman

[sayitaliano]

Hello, would you recommend a few series of children's books or comics (Frog and Toad type) or even websites (news, Wikidia equivalent) that can be found online? I have been wanting to read more but most content is too complicated and discouraging. Thank you!

Ciao!

In the resources masterpost you can find some links for this. In the "various internet Italian links" section, there are a few free online resources with - books/pdfs (the links on the 4th line. Some of these are also audiobooks and some have both ITA-ENG -bilingual- text: you can also find famous children's fairytales like Cinderella in Italian, eg.. Not sure if I mentioned there in some list but I suggest to check the website "liberliber.it" as well, js); - a bunch of Rodari's poems for kids ("Ferragosto" and the others on the same line. I translated some of these, if you need a translation also for others just let me know); - a couple of links more about children's pdfs (most famous children's stories again)/nursery rhymes (links on next line) - children's songs + Rai for kids (in the listening/watching subsection) - many news, magazines links

I'm sorry I'm not copying everything here but I prefer to leave just suggestions/indications: you can also check the other links I put there as maybe there's more for you (and I don't remember). If some links don't work it could be that too much time has passed (sorry I haven't cheked them in a while), or something has changed: you can ask me ofc.

Also, one famous physical comic for children is Topolino (and the similar weekly comics like Zio Paperone -you can find them in the website). It's not even just for kids tbh as also adults enjoy it, but it's generally easy... sometimes it may hide references to our culture/situation, but ofc you can ask if you need. There are other comics but maybe they're a little too complex to understand if you're a beginner, so I will suggest them later on if you want.

Hope you'll find something for you and enjoy! :)

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[dobozites]

✰ 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐂 : nico tortorella. 34. italian. non-binary.

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[thesquirrelart]

Underused FC Challenge de @sweetieschallenge. Avec en plus du thème du jour, celui de l’an dernier (FC +50 ans).

DAY 1 :   people with multiple ethnicities.

Giancarlo Esposito (Italian, African-American, Danish)

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[omarfor-orchestra]

So. Things aren't THAT bad after all

#studying national healthcare systems and then the italian one be like how do you people live like that #ok we have regional uneveness and some problems with allocating resources and money #and you know. the whole waiting list thing #but at least we're not like usa or china besties I'm so sorry hope the government realizes how shitty those systems are

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Trying hard not to be mad at myself for language skills I have let slip bc I’m so busy with other school work but also regretting that independent study is not the way I learn best and I don’t have time for more language classes at the moment

#I’m conversational in French bc I took intensive French classes in HS and really retained it and I took years of Greek and latin so I can #usually read it but I also forget and relearn those every few years and I wish I could take spoken classes for those #and I already forgot the year of German I took bc zoom classes were hell #and I’ve been independently studying Italian for three years and that’s going okay but I know I would benefit from classes #Anyways I’m MAD bc I was reading Heinrich Schliemann’s autobiography and he talks about his approach to learning language and I’m mad #and jealous that I don’t have time to fit in a routine like that or like the resources or like the balls #say what you will about heinrich Schliemann but his balls were absolutely massive

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

I know this is a ridiculous problem to have but it's really frustrating picking out a new tea to try from the family Tea Corner which turns out to be really good, like "we really should be getting more of this" good, only to realise that it was bought while on holiday so to get any more you'd have to drive to flippin Normandy or whatever so now every cup of that delicious tea comes with the added ~anxiety spice~ of a ticking time bomb like

#oh I'm sorry were you enjoying that french caramel flavoured rooibos? #would be a shame if someone were to... make foodstuffs a finite resource wouldn't it? #the day our decaffeinated italian chocolate/coconut tea runs out is the day I'm buying a train ticket to verona #'deteinato' is a brilliant word btw #maddie debrief