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Hi!

I have a podcast, which I started for my students.

I don't teach anything in particular in it (apart from a couple of more language-centered episodes), but I do talk slowly and clearly.

Not sure if it might interest you.

So far there are 20 episodes of normal podcast and 24 chapters of a simplified version of Pinocchio.

You can find it on any podcast platform, searching "Italiano sì".

Or here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1342792

they pretty much are the "Einstein" and the "Hawking" of XXth century linguistics and kinda revolutionised the entire field in the 1960's and 1980's respectively, Italian linguistics chooses to ignore them.

Should you be interested here's a very good starting point:

https://www.amazon.it/dp/8804453508/

(or DM me for a ehm ... pdf....)

There's options, depending on what your dorm allows and your budget.

The expensive route is an induction burner with a corresponding sauce pan with a strainer lid and skillet. This is all you'll need to do home cook meals, but you'll still need a surface for chopping and a small knife and getting to a sink is tough and that's where you RA might not be cool with you running down the hall to the bathroom with boiling water.

The cheaper route is one of these contraptions for making pasta in a microwave. I've never used them but they're only $17 and have good reviews.

If you get crazy with it, you'll come out of college life a better cook. You look at all these fancy kitchens and contraptions that people buy and it's important we remind ourselves what little Italian grandmas can do with just a sauce pan, a paring knife and a kitchen that would fit in a closet.

Italian: Short Stories for Beginners: Improve your reading and listening skills in Italian. Learn Italian with Stories: 1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1545093903/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_G1WGP3AHZP0Q6XZA3GZT?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

You are very very good then (: This is the book: Demone del sangue - I don't know it at all haha I just did some research to see if the translation I had in mind made sense + if someone already used it. I am translator and this is a technique they taught us at Uni. If you use quotation marks when Google searching, Google will show results with that specific item within quotes. It narrows down your search. I find it very useful, especially when I want to verify if a set of words has already been used before - if that makes sense. Glad to help!

I’ve been using the app Busuu (I’ve found it MUCH better than Duolingo) and these books:

Italian: A Self-Teaching Guide by Eduardo Lebano https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Self-Teaching-Guide-Edoardo-L%C3%A8bano/dp/0471359610

I’m also using a old Teach Yourself Italian Grammar. https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Italian-Grammar-Teach-Yourself/dp/0340496967/

The big thing is LISTEN to sone one speaking it and read or do the exercises every day.

To be honest, this is not a good recommendation without further elaboration.

I picked up Città Invisibili and it took me a week to get through the first page, this is the absolute opposite of what OP is asking for.

Having said that, his book of Italian folktales is often listed a celebrated children's book so that might be more appropriate. I haven't read it so I can't offer an opinion.