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Designed to teach the basic elements of the Italian language, this book is a breakthrough in the field of language studies. Its easy, stimulating, and enjoyable approach to learning Italian will benefit beginners and more advanced speakers alike.

An opening chapter on Italian spelling and pronunciation is followed by thirty lessons, each one introducing a conversational theme centred around a crossword puzzle. The lessons present new words and expressions, sample conversations, and language notes, each one building on the last and presenting puzzles that are progressively more...

The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life.

Written for the general reader and based on five year's worth of interviews with over 200 adolescents and their parents, Danesi begins by asserting that one of the early causes of this crystallization of adolescence as an age category can be traced back to theories of...

Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain

-offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages;
-provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities;
-evaluates methods, syllabi, approaches, etc. from the perspective of brain functioning;
-illustrates how teaching can unfold with actual examples in several languages.

This volume is indispensable in courses designed for language teachers, curriculum planners, and...

More practice to expand your Italian skills

The Practice Makes Perfect series has helped thousands learn the basics of Italian, from vocabulary to prepositions, verbs, and beyond. Now this innovative series turns its attention to advanced students of Italian who have the foundation of good language skills and want to take their knowledge to the next level. To help you evolve your language skills, this book focuses on more sophisticated grammar topics that are essential to constructing longer, more complex sentences. They especially highlight more troublesome areas, such as...

The image of restless, apathetic, mopish, awkward teenagers who listen to loud, screeching music when they are not on the phone, and who insist on dressing, wearing their hair, and behaving exactly like the friends they cannot seem to live without, has become a fixture of the modern social landscape.

The emergence of certain behaviours (facial expressions, linguistic styles, dress codes, musical preferences, etc.) on the developmental timetable of children is a sign that they have entered a transitional period. The dramatic changes in physical appearance that occur during...

Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain

-offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages;
-provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities;
-evaluates methods, syllabi, approaches, etc. from the perspective of brain functioning;
-illustrates how teaching can unfold with actual examples in several languages.

This volume is indispensable in courses designed for language teachers, curriculum planners, and...