Podcasts on Learning Italian?

Hmm, podcasts no. But how about audiobooks? There's a bunch on iTunes.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction/search?submit=edit&term=italian&attribute=collection&media=book

Heather,

How about Mandarin? We put www.ChinesePod.com together and dashed straight to number 3 on the Yahoo podcast directory. Mandarin is more niche thn Italian so I think this shows that podcasting and language learning are well suited. It won't take long before someone produces one.

I've done a fair bit of writing on my blog about how podcasting will revolutionize language training, the audio-book industry, and so on. In many ways the parallels with recent developments in the media industry are very informative. I think that development may even offer the basis of a BW story: www.suixuan.com/blog

And btw, we're charging (and getting) a subsctiption fee for our service. That might be news too???

Heather, here's an idea: Learn Mandarin, use it in Italy, and blog about it, perhaps in English.

Heather:

Here's a link to an elementary Italian podcast:
http://italian.libsyn.com/

He does a great job, especially if you're a complete beginner. Buona Fortuna!

Joseph Nilo
Mac Pro Podcast
http://www.macpropodcast.com
http://podcasterconfessions.blogspot.com

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! Learning mandarin may one day be on my list, you two, but not right now!

Heather,

Here's a website - www.learnitalianpod.com - where you can find good podcasts for learning Italian.

Max Braglia
www.learnitalianpod.com

This site offers basic Italian language podcasts: www.insideitalian.com. The podcasts are also available through iTunes.

Try podcastalley.com. They have a bunch of free ones.

www.learnitalianpod.com is excellent

learnitalianpod and insideitalian are basic beginner sites with a short dialogue thrown in
there needs to be something more indepth, with a longer more complicated dialogue at the speed of speech not the slow motion that is offered

I tried to learn french with a podcast. It didn't work for me. I prefer audience.

Oh it's news alright, Ken. Bad news. Making airwaves free is so hard for some people who are unable to resist their own greed.

I will not subscribe to podcasts that charge a fee for their service, particularly when they aren't very good in the first place.

Unfortunately, I have not found an Italian podcast that is actually good. Or a Chinese one for that matter. Excellent French and Spanish ones out there, though.

I hope you'll try my podcast called Let's Speak Italian!

It's a daily podcast that is only 3-5 minutes long. Just enough to keep you interested, but not too much that you fall behind and give up.

I hope you'll give it a listen!
Mike

"La Costa dei Barbari" podcasts from Swiss Radio are really entertaining but they're at an advanced level.

"Grammatica di Strada" is also entertaining.

You can find these by searching for the words with Google. On my website you'll also find some entertaining audio and video in Italian with the script and vocabulary. www.freewebs.com/keithgilbert

Buon divertimento!

I'm trying to make a podcast in Italian www.quiitalia.podomatic.com I am a native speaker

I dont find anything on good & usefull basic italian.

yes, to learn mandarin, you can try www.hellomandarin.com

Katie is right, www.learnitalianpod.com is very great. I'm learning Italian on that web. You should try.

Try also www.ECpod.com

You can watch videos to learn mandarin and english for free...

Thanks Genna... ecpod is great... I love their videos...

Ciao, my name's Lisa and I'm Italian. I'm thinking of starting my own podcast for people interested in learning Italian. I've read some of you are finding it hard to find a GOOD podcast. What is it exactly you are looking for in a podcast? What makes a good service? Any comment would be greatly appreciated.

Grazie mille per il vostro aiuto. Un saluto a tutti e buono studio!

ItalianPod, the fourth language podcast from Praxis Language, has launched and maybe a good place for you, Heather, to find fun and useful Italian classes - http://italianpod.com

Lisa, I'm looking for an Italian podcast similar to the French podcast DailyFrenchPod. It gives a good combination of listening, reading and writing. Both fast and slow versions, and definition/descriptions are given. It's good for those of us who have some language, but it's gotten rusty - too many basic programs are out there, starting with hello, my name is...
Thanks, I hope you get something going.

In addition to the podcasts mentioned above, I also like "My Daily Phrase Italian" by the BBC. 100 lessons arranged by topic geared for travelers.

A good podcast for intermediate learners of Italian is the Incontro Italiano podcast, completely in Italian:
http://www.maxmondo.com/incontroitaliano
You can also watch Italian videos on the site.

I prefer www.pastacast.net

It's simple and very clear on grammar rules, it's a great Italian podcast