Here are some useful websites, books, magazines, sources and resources for either language or content (or both)
Ministero degli Affari
Esteri
e della Cooperazione Internazionale
in English and Italian (particularly to understand Italy’s position on specific issues)
La Rappresentanza Permanente d’Italia
presso le Nazioni Unite a New York
https://italyun.esteri.it/rappresentanza_onu/it/
https://italyun.esteri.it/rappresentanza_onu/en/
The United
Nations
http://www.un.org/en/ main portal in English
https://www.un.org/en/about-un/ general
introduction
UN Daily News
https://news.un.org/en/advanced-search
https://unric.org/it/tag/roma/ next door to the SIOI
https://archive.unric.org/it/lonu-in-italia?start=10
https://www.onuitalia.it/
l’ ONU in
Breve (to translate with me)
https://unric.org/it/le-nazioni-unite-in-breve/
Italy’s role in the world, some examples:
Presidency of the G20 and the G20 ROME LEADERS’ DECLARATION
Italy on the UN Security Council 2017:
http://www.italyun.esteri.it/rappresentanza_onu/resource/doc/2017/01/dgap.pdf
Italy and UN Security Council Reform (2022):
https://www.esteri.it/en/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo/organizzazioni_internazionali/onu/la_riforma/
PM
Draghi’s speech at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting https://www.governo.it/en/articolo/pm-draghi-s-speech-oecd-ministerial-council-meeting/20038
THE ITALIAN STRATEGY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN https://www.esteri.it/mae/resource/doc/2017/12/rapporto-med-maeci-ita.pdf
https://www.esteri.it/mae/resource/doc/2017/11/rapporto-med-maeci-2017-eng.pdf
The European Union
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en main portal in English
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it main portal in Italian
https://europa.eu/newsroom/highlights_en newsroom
For news from
the Italian government and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
(and sometimes the possibility to do translation):
https://www.governo.it/
Examples for translation: https://www.governo.it/it/articolo/dichiarazioni-alla-stampa-congiunte-ad-ankara-lintervento-del-presidente-draghi/20210
https://www.governo.it/en/articolo/prime-minister-draghi-s-statement-press-conference-president-erdo-turkey/20216
https://www.governo.it/it/approfondimento/pnrr-gli-obiettivi-e-la-struttura/16702
https://www.governo.it/en/approfondimento/nrrp-objectives-and-structure/18999
Italia Domani, the
National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Open in Italian, translate and check the English
version
https://italiadomani.gov.it/it/home.html
https://italiadomani.gov.it/en/home.html
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/PNRR%20Aggiornato.pdf
Il sito ufficiale
del Presidente della Repubblica italiana
https://www.quirinale.it/
https://www.quirinale.it/ricerca/discorsi
For example: https://www.quirinale.it/elementi/69381
Publications or Websites in English on IR
Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/tags/archives
International Affairs
https://www.chathamhouse.org/research/publications/ia
The Guardian and Guardian Weekly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekly
https://twitter.com/guardianweekly
The Economist
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/news/types/europe-news
Foreign Policy
Global Policy
Global Policy Journal
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/
The Global Policy Institute
Global Issues
International
Crisis Group
Journal associated with the IR Department at the London
School of Economics
https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/research/journals/international-politics-journal
https://link.springer.com/journal/41311/volumes-and-issues
Chatham House
Greenpeace
https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/news/
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/publication/
https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
A Yale lecture course giving a US point of view on international relations
The first of 26
lectures in chronological order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqvzFY72mg&list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyViG2ar68jkgEi4y6doNZy
A Basic course book on IR in English (good for both language and content)
International Relations by Jon C. W.
Pevehouse and Joshua S. Goldstein
latest edition
(12th edition) textbook
etext
https://www.pearson.com/store/p/international-relations/P100001194351
(11th edition)
paperback
https://www.amazon.com/International-Relations-11th-Pevehouse-2016-01-13/dp/B01FGN9K6K
10th edition
https://www.amazon.com/International-Relations-10th-Joshua-Goldstein/dp/0205059570
various editions
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=International-Relations-Joshua-Goldstein&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
IR
magazine in English (del Ministero degli
Affari Esteri)
Longitude, The
Italian Monthly on World Affairs in English – to have an idea go to:
https://www.longitude.it/
and click on the latest magazine cover on the left and
then on one of the articles inside
and in Italian: Internazionale magazine
you can often find the original
articles (which have been translated into Italian in Internazionale) in
English, French, Spanish or German on internet
Excellent text on Human Rights and International Law
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for
Global Justice, Geoffrey Robertson, Penguin Books
2013 edition
http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Against-Humanity-Struggle-Justice/dp/1595588604
2012 edition:
http://www.amazon.it/Crimes-Against-Humanity-Struggle-Justice/dp/0141974834
Dictionaries
Monolingual
English Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD)
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/
https://www.amazon.it/Oxford-Advanced-Learners-Dictionary-dictionary/dp/0194798798
This is one of the best monolingual learner’s dictionaries of English. A
learner’s dictionary gives special help with the things language learners
need—irregular forms, dependent prepositions, formal/informal language,
particular grammar, etc.
Bilingual Dictionary
Use a
monolingual dictionary to understand how to use new vocabulary (for example
when you want to write). Use a bilingual dictionary when you need to quickly
check the meaning of a specific term.
il Ragazzini 2021,
dizionario inglese-italiano italiano-inglese
https://www.zanichelli.it/ricerca/prodotti/il-ragazzini-2021
https://www.amazon.it/s?k=Il+Ragazzini+2021.+Dizionario+inglese-italiano%2C+italiano-inglese&i=stripbooks&__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2W3V2YSGLJ9TE&sprefix=il+ragazzini+2021.+dizionario+inglese-italiano%2C+italiano-inglese%2Cstripbooks%2C79&ref=nb_sb_noss
Online dictionaries
Reverso Context
Excellent! Check with me how to make
best use of it
https://context.reverso.net/traduzione/
examples: http://context.reverso.net/traduzione/italiano-inglese/fornire
http://context.reverso.net/traduzione/inglese-italiano/provide
examples: https://www.wordreference.com/iten/chiavetta
http://www.wordreference.com/enit/diplomat
http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_inglese/index.shtml
https://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_inglese/Inglese/D/diplomacy.shtml
http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_inglese/Italiano/C/concorso_1.shtml
https://dizionari.corriere.it/index.shtml?refresh_ce
Reverso Dictionary
http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/
Glosbe
Dictionary
example: https://glosbe.com/en/it/truce
Other
dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-italian/
example: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/italian-english/principio
https://www.stars21.com/dictionary/italian/
Download of old
dictionary of international relations
http://rezadelavari.com/files/filebank/penguin_dictionary.pdf
Diplomacy Dictionary
Dizionario di diplomazia e relazioni internazionali-
Dictionary
of diplomacy and international relations.
inglese-italiano,
English-Italian dictionary
Buri M. Rosaria, Editore
Argo, collana Quaderni Isufi, currently out of print, but maybe on Amazon or
from IR students selling their books or in a library. Here are 2 possibilities:
https://www.ibs.it/dizionario-di-diplomazia-relazioni-internazionali-libro-m-rosaria-buri/e/9788882343514#
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788882343514/buri-m--rosaria/dizionario-diplomazia-relazioni.html
British National Corpus
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
A corpus is the raw material of dictionaries. Look up any word or expression to
see examples of how it combines with other words in native-speaker English.
Example:
https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/
I put in ‘ceasefire’ and got 678 examples, which I opened by clicking on the right
Grammar Exercise Books
Essential Grammar in Use – Raymond
Murphy, Cambridge University Press
English Grammar in Use – Raymond Murphy,
Cambridge University Press
Advanced Grammar in Use – Martin Hewings, Cambridge
University Press
Grammar Reference Book
Practical English Usage – Michael Swan,
Oxford University Press
Writing Essays
Writing Academic
English by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, publisher Longman
Sites where you can study English
Here is a
site where you can check and practice grammar structures:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
(from here you can also access reading and other resources)
There is also:
http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/grammar.html
http://vivquarry.com/wkshts/
e.g. http://vivquarry.com/wkshts/linkwd2.html
and
http://esl.about.com/od/writingadvanced/a/wc_addition.htm
but I think the best sites are:
Exam English ✓Free Practice Tests for learners of English
http://examenglish.com/cambridge_esol.php
for lots of free practice material at different levels (about this more later)
for example:
https://www.examenglish.com/IELTS/IELTS_general_reading1.htm
and BBC
Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish new address
and http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/ old address (but still active)
you should explore the site. For example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/
is for
listening practice and dictation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
is for grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
Other sites
where you can practice English
iTunes U (via iTunes , which you must install)
http://www.apple.com/it/education/itunes-u/
for video and audio podcasts of university lectures and courses and to see how
your subject is taught in English.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
http://www.ted.com/
Fantastic presentations from some of the most innovative people in the world.
Watching presentations is a really good way to practice comprehension.
The Purdue
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Online
distance courses (MOOCs – Massive open
online course)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
http://mooc.org/ (see
communication and language section)
http://www.moocs.co/
http://www.mooc-list.com/
TV Channels
The aim here
is to listen and improve your comprehension, stay up to date (so you should
also follow the telegiornale in Italian) and absorb some of the language.
BBC
France 24 in
English
Aljazeera in English
You can also
get a wide range of live TV channels and old TV programs and films on:
https://www.popcornflix.com/pages/discover/d/tv-shows
https://www.snagfilms.com/categories
A little light
translation!
Don’t forget, if you need to expand your
knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the EU site where you will find this
document (156 pages) to download in Italian, English and maybe your second
language too.
The EU in 2021
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/en/
download here:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/92b9b0d3-9e14-11ec-83e1-01aa75ed71a1
The EU in 2020
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/lue%20nel%202020-NAAD21001ITN.pdf
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/the%20eu%20in%202020-NAAD21001ENN.pdf
The EU in 2019
And
then the 2018 EU General Report (154 pages)
then
download the pdf format in both Italian and English
This
will give you more than 150 pages of Italian to translate into English! To
check your translation just move between the Italian and English version and
take notes on regular language usage and differences. You can also download the French, Spanish or German
versions.
And here's the 2017
General Report (130 pages)
And here's the
2016 General Report (104 pages)
You can also get
the General Reports for 2015 (96 pages) and 2014 (288 pages!)
If you prefer, you can go straight to the English version of the EU in 2021 text or other texts on the EU site or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in diplomatic English. See my future post about the UN website for a little more information about how to get documents.
The Council of the EU centre for press releases is another site where you can do more translation:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/it/press/press-releases/
for example:
and then changing
the language to English at the top of the page on the right:
The UN
There is also the
UN Annual Report 2019 for note-taking on the language, unless you want to
translate from French or Spanish into English!
https://www.un.org/annualreport/
Sources for the 2016 preselezione texts
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32015R0478
Sources for the
2017 preselezione texts
Sources for the
2018 preselezione texts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43381741
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/animal-rights-group-peta-claims-12170446
Sources for the 2019
preselezione texts
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1904/190419-notre-dame-r.html
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1904/190417-nuclear-reactor-r.html
Save this
blog address:
also good:
https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/regolamento_biblioteca_iai.pdf
https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/priorita-italiane-dopo-70-anni-di-nato
https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/la-difesa-missilistica-e-litalia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2019.1606513
Revision of Grammar and Vocabulary B1, B2 and C1
levels
B1 level:
As many of the links to Grammar and
Vocabulary exercises on the left and right of this page as you want to do:
https://www.english-practice.at/b1/vocabulary/b1-vocabulary-index.htm
This is huge because there are pages inside pages!
B2 level:
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/prepositions/prep005-prepositions.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/connectives/con004-connectives-linking-words.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/connectives/con003-connectives-linking-words.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/connectives/con002.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/prepositions/prep004.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/prepositions/prep003.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/connectives/con001.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/prepositions/prep002-prepositions.pdf
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/grammar/prepositions/prep001-prepositions.pdf
and
then ....... as many of the links to Grammar and Vocabulary exercises on
theleft and right of this page as you want to do:
https://www.english-practice.at/b2/vocabulary/b2-vocabulary-index.htm
This is also huge because there are pages inside pages!
Check also: https://www.english-practice.at/index.htm
in case you missed something
C1 level
https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/tests-advanced-vocabulary3.html
https://www.examenglish.com/CEFR/C1.htm
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/advanced.php
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/advanced/preparation/
https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/
https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/cae.php
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/advanced-c1-listening
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