Speak Italian Magically!

You are all invited to this FREE virtual event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/248038048597662/

Just join and share with your friends interested in learning Italian. It is a podcast with the audio portion of Awaken Your Italian…For FREE! It’s 2012 and I want you to Awaken Your Italian!

So just by joining and sharing the above event you’ll get to know the link where to download

An audio course of over two hours of real Italian FOR FREE!

And it’s a different kind of course, because the goal of this is to EMPOWER you and make you FEEL GOOD while learning Italian.

You can listen to a preview of the audio (just 12 minutes, but you’ll get more than 2 hours if you join and share the event) below:

When will you get it?

 Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Just a couple of weeks!

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Hello everyone!

Just a quick note to tell you that the eBook version of Awaken Your Italian! is available on Amazon.com!

They are offering it for FREE to launch it, only for today!

Here’s the link:

 Awaken Your Italian - Volume 1

I decided to spread the content of the paperback in 5 ebooks, so that you can try the approach and enjoy it…Then you can decide with your own time to go on with the lessons!

Every volume includes 2 audio files to download.

Here are the links to all volumes:

Volume 1 - Volume 2 - Volume 3 - Volume 4 - Volume 5

Remember that the paperback edition with all the content is available at:

Create Space

Insert the following discount code before checking out to save: 3264T874 Click here and Awaken Your Italian!

Buon divertimento e buon risveglio!!!;-)

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It’s finally available online and in its printed version the guide Pronto Estate 2011.

Click on the picture or here to flip through its pages for free!

Why am I writing about this guide? What has it to do with the learning of the Italian language? Well, one of the most effective ways to learn a foreign language is to read things that you are interested in and you understand. Professor Stephen Krashen says clearly so in his book “The power of reading”. And the guide Pronto Estate not only offers interesting contents, allowing you to discover the beauties of Tropea and nearby, but also comprehensible to the international audience. And how is all this possible?

The guide is written in three languages (Italian, German and English) and, even if translations are not literal, they will allow you to fully understand the text contents presented and to pretaste your holiday in Calabria. What is missing to make it an even more useful device to learn the Italian language?

The only missing thing is the audio!

Talking about this, it comes to my mind an ancient chinese proverb:

“I listen and forget, I read and understand, I see and remember, I do and learn”

So, what would happen if you read, listen, see and do at the same time?;-)

Start and click on the guide link, then open it, flip through its pages, look at it, print it, copy it on your Italian woorkbook and then come to Tropea and practise your Italian! How much faster would you learn?

This is only a little piece of advice of how you could use the guide…but as I was saying, the audio is missing, or it was missing, because I volunteered to record the reading of the guide and I put it at everyone’s disposal!

You can listen to a preview here:

http://media.podiobooks.com/prontoestate/PB-ProntoEstate2011-05.mp3 

All the rest will be available on http://www.podiobooks.com/title/pronto-estate-2011/  from June, 27th, for free!

Please bear in mind that this is advanced Italian, written for Italian people and not for foreigners. Anyway you will be able to understand it thanks to non literal translations that you can find on the downloadable pdf. If you are looking for easier Italian input click here!

If you want to read this article in Italian, click here!

Buon divertimento!

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What if there’s a wonderful place you have been to and you would like to come back everytime you want? And what if you would like to visit this place even if you haven’t ever been there? Let’s take Tropea for instance. Have you been here? If not, have you ever heard of it? Whatever the answer, read this article through and you will discover it.

Everyone knows that we have 5 senses and we can learn through them so that we have a multisensorial learning experience.

In fact, with your sight you can imagine a crystal clear sea and a sunny beach.

With your nose  you can smell  the salty air.

With your hearing you can hear the gentle waves splashing near you.

With your sense of touch you can feel the sand on your feet and even take it in your hands.

With your (sense of) taste you can taste a good ice cream or anything you would like to taste on a beach.

Now watch the following video by Franco di Capua and imagine you are there.

How do you feel? Relaxed? Excited? Describe your feelings…

Now if you use all your five senses you can be in Tropea every time you want. And all the warm people of Tropea are waiting for you to make your time here wonderful!

 Tropea, my beloved home town, is also in Speak Italian Magically. In the second episode you will be actually guided on Tropea’s beach to enjoy a nice day at the beach!

 And if you want additional Italian input, you can listen to Impariamo l’italiano a Tropea for free, where you can discover that Tropea is not only beach!

 Buona domenica a tutti!

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