yourDictionary.com
Online dictionaries for foreign languages, including Italian.
Sede di Roma
Italian Language Instruction
Online dictionaries for foreign languages, including Italian.
Babel Fish Translation
This page will translate blocks of text, or entire web pages, usefully if not perfectly
BBC Languages
The BBC offers online Italian language learning for free. Take the self-contained online course, improve your listening skills by listening to a related radio report or test your Italian by reading past news articles and completing a quiz.
They also offer free online instruction in French, Spanish & German as well as shorter courses in Portuguese, Greek and Chinese.
Indo-European Languages Tutorial Website
This no-frills, yet helpful site is maintained by a Linguistics Graduate Student. It offers simple word & phrase crib sheets as well as basic grammar for 14 languages including Italian, French, German and Spanish.
Italian For Beginners - About.com
Free online Italian lessons, including a whole section with really, really bad jokes.
The Italian Electronic Classroom
The Italian Electronic Classroom is a project of Centro Studi Italiani in San Francisco, CA. The site is aimed at providing free on-line, useful information on difficult aspects of the Italian language to students, teachers, translators, writers. This is a work in progress. Periodically they add new pages on topics covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and so on.