Italian
exercises, level test, online correction and tutorials (free services
reserved to foreigners)
1)
Exercises (Beginners, Intermediate Level
and Advanced Level)
- Description of the service
- How to use the service
2) Check your level
3) Exercises for blind users
4) Online corrections and tutorials
1) Exercises (Beginners,
Intermediate
Level, Advanced
Level)
-
Description of the service
In our pages you can find Italian language exercises, prepared by
Puntolingua in collaboration with other organisations (Italian language
schools for foreigners, freelance authors, publishing houses, etc.).
The material is not organised in a course, because we know that
to learn a language from zero, the materials and individual learning
could provide a valid assistance, but cannot in themselves reach
the efficiency of a didactic relationship between teacher and pupil.
The material, updated monthly and divided in three levels, has rather
the scope of helping our users to be in training after having followed
a language course or for improving their competence on specific
arguments of grammar.
-
How to use the service
The exercise section of each level opens with new exercises of
the month. At the end of the page, you can find the link to access
an archive which collects the exercises published online since
June 2002. Choose the exercise or the exercises which interest
you. We recommend you to copy the text on a file. At this point,
you can print the file or you can carry out the exercise digitally.
Exercises which require a standard solution (e.g. filling in the
blanks, conjugating/inflecting parts of the sentences) are equipped
with a key. The more open exercises instead can be sent to the
online teacher to receive
the corrections. You can anyway contact the online
teacher freely to pose problems and to request clarifications
on all of our exercises, even on the ones the solutions of which
are already published.
2)
Check your level
You can utilize the test of Italian level proposed by Puntolingua
before getting enrolled in a language course. The trial is organised
on six levels and has only a suggestive nature. Many schools subject
the student to a level determination test at the moment of enrolling
or before the day of the course. For carring out the test and for
its correction, the same indications of the date for the monthly
exercises are valid.
3) Exercises for blind users
This service is still in the experimental stage. With the advise
of the Italian Union for the Blind (Unione Italiana Ciechi) of
Pisa, we have realized some pages with access facility for the
users with a visual impairment, who can access the exercise pages
directly from the homepage, thanks to the information in white,
unseeable to sighted users. The exercises published in this special
section can be found in the archive. We request your collaboration
in utilizing this service only when you are blind or partially
sighted, since in this case the corrections are made in a way
to meet the needs of this cathegory of users.
4)
Online corrections and tutorials
Once done, you can send an exercise to the online
teacher, by inserting the text complete with the title and
the date, in the form that you find in the page
dedicated to the service. Under the form we invite you to
insert your personal details. The communication of the personal
details is not obligatory (the corrections will be sent anyway),
but it would be useful for the teacher to help you to correct some
errors and give you personal explanations (in particular, the information
related to age, the profession and the native language). Moreover,
it is always appreciated to have some minimal information regarding
the person with which we are communicating: how old she/he is, which
part of the world she/he lives in, etc.
You can get in touch with the online
teacher freely, even without having followed the exercises
of Puntolingua, for example to ask questions on certain aspects
of the Italian language which interest you or to correct other types
of exercises or an essay written by yourself. The teacher corrects
a maximum of three exercises almost every week for each user. In
case you wish to send more exercises, we request you to send them
separately, that is, a separate message for each exercise. In case,
the format of the exercise does not permit the insertion in the
form, you can send the file as an attachment directly to the address:
insegnante@puntolingua.it
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