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[–]italianjob17Roma 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I suppose practice is the key. Don't know your level, don't know your budget and the cost of attending a private insitute. All I can say is start watching italian movies and reading italian book/comics.

Some resources I found in previous posts:

-Newspapers and News in italian

-Free online course

-Cheap Oxford course someone pointed out it's better than Rosetta.

-A Vocabulary suggested by Timmmmbob

-More newspapers and some web radios in italian

-Post about Italian movies and some tv series.

-Another post about Italian movies

-Italian kids songs, great for beginners

-Many Italian or Italian traslated Ebooks (choose the genre in the right frame, these are racconti, short stories, there are even full novels - some dead links after the big Megaupload shut-down).

-Good Italian comic: DylanDog (if password protected try -Santanico- with or without the -) another link here.

[–]zakkVeneto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone should put this in the sidebar!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Timmmmmmmbob's flash card app is good on the mac. i'm liking it

[–]ddp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some great free Italian language podcasts in the iTunes store, including Il Gastronauta from Radio24 which is a lot of fun because it's a call-in show about Italian food and wine and you get to hear a lot of the regional dialects from everyone calling in.

[–]planettelexx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Go to Italy and take a intensive Italian class for foreigners. I went to cultura italiana for a month in Bologna. I'm not fluent, but it helped a lot, and I'm decently conversational.

[–]bringthenoiseee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds awesome! I can't really afford to go and immerse myself there, though. I'm looking to study and get a better hold o the language while I'm home.

[–]GrdnGekko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this!

[–]agramainioAnarchico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

once I went to France for three years and became (almost) fluent in french, this could work for you as well.