At Carleton

  • Courses occasionally offered in conjunction with the Italy OCS program.
  • We offer a variety of comprehensive self instruction language programs available by appointment at the Language Center.

Web Resources

  • La Repubblica – A popular Italian news source.
  • Quia – a website for practicing grammar, vocabulary, and a host of other useful things. You can find practice quizzes and online practice exercises.
  • Duolingo – Free courses for people on the go. Memorize vocabulary, improve pronunciation and understand grammar. For beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. Uses fill in the blanks, typing, voice recording and images.
  • Babbel – For all levels, fun and easy. Takes you through questions of every day life and how to get around with the language. Uses pictures, multiple questions, sentence matching and others.
  • Conjuguemos – A nice website for practicing verbs, grammar and vocabulary in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The demo mode of this website is free, and will allow you to take quizzes or do short online games to help you practice your foreign language. The website is very straightforward and easy to use, even letting you choose a selection of verbs to practice with and setting your own levels of difficulty.
  • Loecsen – Method of rapid assimilation of the foreign languages that can be learnt over the internet or on other mobile devices. It is intended for people who want to manage in most situations of everyday life without having to go through a lengthy learning process.
  • Memrise – Learn from beginners to advanced, improve pronunciation and conversation flow.
  • 101 Languages – Includes links to different resources such as radio stations, vocabulary lessons and builder, keyboards, news, common words, translators, conjugators, flashcards, travel guides, pronunciation, phrases and vocabulary.
  • Goethe Verlag – Phrase book, vocabulary, download bilingual audios, download monolingual audios.  Includes 100 easy lessons (100 lessons are free). All dialogues and sentences are spoken by native speakers. No prior grammar knowledge is needed. You can start learning immediately. Improve your language skills for work, travel or as a hobby.
  • Games – Language learning games. Numbers, phrases, colors, days, months, fruits, animals, vocabulary, food, verbs, clothes, times and nouns.
  • Live Lingua Project – Learning materials that contain courses, ebooks and audios. 
  • ie Languages – Learn basic phrases, vocabulary and grammar. Lists of vocabulary and verb conjugations are available. Some of the tutorials include audio files and interactive exercises and authentic visual examples of language use.
  • My Languages – Site which focuses on grammar and vocabulary. Lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools, and audio files to download.
  • Surface Languages – Thousands of phrases and hours of audio spoken by native speakers along with flashcard, multiple choice and language learning games. Learn colors, numbers, basic phrases, food words, basic conversation phrases and build your vocabulary.Improve your fluency and confidence through learning many different sentences in your target language.
  • Master Any Language – Learn playing games, take tests, audios, alphabets, numbers, greetings, food, months, days, native speakers and links to resources such as music, foods, apps, books and movies.
  • Lingro – A free multilingual instant search dictionary and language learning web site. Paste in the URL of a newspaper and each word in the text becomes clickable and gives access to its dictionary.
  • Unilang – Free courses, podcasts, videos, phrasebooks, games and exercises.
  • Open Culture – Links to various language learning sites.
  • Forvo – Pronunciation examples.