Italian: Vocabulary

Resources & Links Italian – This page offers a selection of documents in Notebook, PowerPoint, and Word format on basic vocabulary and expressions (family, age, and feelings).

 Italian rhyming dictionary

The Internet Picture Dictionary: Italian - an illustrated dictionary and can be searched alphabetically or thematically: Animals, Appliances, Body Parts, Clothing and Apparel, Colors, Fruits, Garden and Yard, Kitchen, Musical Instruments, Numbers, School, Sports, Tools, Transportation, Vegetables.

Glossary of Italian Food Terms

Teaching Children Italian - These articles offer free lessons in teaching children the Italian language:

1. Colors: Teaching Children Italian Part 1
2. The Alphabet: Teaching Children Italian Part 2
3. Numbers: Teaching Children Italian Part 3:
4. Animals: Teaching Children Italian: Part 4
5. La Famiglia: Family Members Names in Italian
6. Parts of the Body: Teaching Children Italian: Part 6
7. Teaching Children Italian: Parts of the House

Il Vocabolario Etimologico di Pianigiani - web version of an Italian etymological dictionary that can also be used as a general monolingual dictionary. “Versione web del famoso Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana di Ottorino Pianigiani”.

Italian Online Glossaries and Dictionaries – An extensive list of links to specialized online glossaries and dictionaries.

Italian False Friends - False Cognates in Italian

Easy Learning Dictionary Resources - On its Web site, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd offers a series of downloadable colourful vocabulary building worksheets with answer keys on the following themes: clothes, computers, head and hands, house, prepositions, restaurant.

Little Explorers - English-Italian Picture Dictionary: basic dictionary with illustrations.

Italian Word #2 Book to Print - EnchantedLearning.com - pages with black and white illustrations to print to make a short Italian Word Book.  There is a membership fee to access these.

AllWords.com - English-Italian dictionary.

Dizionario Inglese Italiano - WordReference.com - approximately 100,000 words with more than 250,000 translations.

Dizionario Genovese - Italiano - Vocaboli e frasi idiomatiche, in particolare termini Anatomici, Medici, Culinari, Gastronomici e della vita di tutti i giorni e il dizionario minimo dei termini zoologici.

SmartPhrase.com - lists of words or phrases in English and Italian: general phrases; days & time of day; year & time of year; colours; animals; weather; helpful books for Italian; you & family and numbers.

Italian Vocabulary - Basic vocabulary charts organised under the following headings:

"Italian Expressions of Time" - a 25 question quiz, rated easy.