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This book is an outstanding collection of readings in Italian designed to introduce language students to contemporary Italian culture while developing their skills in reading, speaking, writing, and listening. The selections in L'Italia verso il Duemila range from essays on serious topics such as recent history and politics, the Italian economy, immigration from developing countries, the North-South gap, and the environment, to lighter pieces on Italian surnames, traditions, food, popular music, and soccer. Suggested activities designed to facilitate development of language...

This workbook offers the teacher of Italian a varied collection of activities for the classroom. The thirty-one activities involve situations and guided exercises for creating dialogues, exchanging information, providing descriptions, and completing questionnaires and forms. In Litaliano si impara in due students work in pairs. The situations and contexts are typical of Italian society, combining topics of interest to contemporary Italian youth with traditional elements of Italian culture. The book is intended for beginner and intermediate students as a means of integrating and...

In every society proverbs provide a lively and colourful point of access to the language and the culture, Caterina Cicogna takes the images associated with Italian proverbs and idiomatic phrases and breaks them up into their constituent semantic categories, so that the learner can come to grasp and acquire the structure of figuration in Italian progressively and methodically. The exercise material is based both on receptive/perceptual skills and productive ones. Well-chosen Italian proverbs and idiomatic expressions are accompanied by a wide range of written and oral exercises. For...

They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gesturesa language not found in any dictionary. Charming black-and-white photos and wry captions evoke an Italy of days gone by. Speak Italian gives a little hand to anyone who has ever been at a loss for words.

Lasciati andare scoprendo un nuovo mondo di passione, desiderio e sensualita con ogni poesia.

You know how to order your favorite "ravioli" or "vino"--but that can only get you so far. If you are planning to travel to an Italian-speaking country or want a jumpstart on on how to "parlare" for a class, Learn Italian in a Hurry is your ideal pocket-sized primer to learn this beautiful language, with sections on Commonly used Italian phrases (days of the week, letter, numbers), Pronunciations and conjugations, Grammar and sentence construction, Useful words and terms, and Helpful Italian-English and English-Italian...

Diese Grammatik stellt die Syntax und die Morphologie des Italienischen unter strukturellen und semantisch-pragmatischen Gesichtspunkten dar. Sie informiert ausfuhrlich uber die Bildung des einfachen und des komplexen Satzes, uber die Flexionsmorphologie und uber die Wortbildung. In einem besonderen Kapitel behandelt sie Pragmatik und Semantik der Artikelworter, der Vergleichssatze, der Tempora und Modi, der Negation und der Wortstellung. Die zugrundeliegenden theoretischen Prinzipien sind die einer weitgehend lexikalisch kodierten Oberflachengrammatik. Deshalb wird den Phanomenen der...

ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day(R) AUDIO CDs
8 hours of audio instruction with personal tutors to guide you through each step
Easy to use on their own or with the 10 minutes a day(R) book
ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day(R) Book
132-page illustrated workbook
150 Sticky Labels, Flash Cards, Cut-out Menu Guide, Pronunciation Guide
ITALIAN in 10 minutes a day(R) CD-ROM
See and hear the words as you play with them on your...

Mi piaci molto Ti va se ci vediamo ancora?--(I like you very much Shall we see each other again?) Answer this correctly in Italian and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap Italian Language classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios but chances are while in Italy you will spend a lot more time trying to make...