Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Italian

If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, turn to Schaum's Easy Outlines

Schaum's Easy Outline of Italian is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused review of the topic. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, it features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give you quick pointers to the essentials.

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Master the words and phrases necessary for handling everyday situations

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary helps you develop your vocabulary by providing practice in word-building and encouraging you to analyze new words for an ever-increasing vocabulary. Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for an increasing vocabulary, you are able to perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence to communicate...

Sharpen your Italian language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture

Better Reading Italian offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Italian vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more...

As you progress in your study of Italian, you may feel overwhelmed by unfamiliar areas, such as knowing when to use essere versus avere; determining the gender of a noun; avoiding "false friends"; or understanding the use of the subjunctive in subordinate clauses. Author and teacher Alessandra Visconti is familiar with this situation and, more important, knows how her students--and now you--can overcome it. In Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Problem Solver, Visconti shares her arsenal of strategies on how to...

Of all the obstacles you face while learning a new language, grammar is one of the toughest. But now there's a way to learn the subtleties of grammar without all the headaches. Side by Side Italian & English Grammar is the perfect tool to help you understand the similarities and differences between English and Italian grammar.

By learning Italian grammar through comparisons to your native English language, you are able to build on what you already know. You will be better able to understand and remember Italian grammar while...

Trame: A Contemporary Italian Reader brings together short stories, poems, interviews, excerpts from movie scripts and novels, and other works by 33 renowned authors. The readings cover familiar themes--youth, family, immigration, politics, women's voices, identity--from the fresh perspective of a new generation of Italian writers. By presenting a rich array of materials and many points of view, Trame highlights the cultural complexity of contemporary Italy.

Each text is accompanied by a diverse selection of activities and exercises that help students...

This is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Italian, which can be used independently or alongside Modern Italian Grammar. Divided into three sections, this highly useful text includes:

• exercises based on essential grammatical structures
• everyday functions practice such as making introductions and expressing needs
• realistic role plays in short scenes, set in a range of different contexts.

Implementing feedback from its predecessor, this updated second edition features exercises graded on a three-point...

Italian For Dummies Audio Set has everything you need to introduce you to the language so that you can start to communicate with other Italian speakers (without memorizing a bunch of boring grammar notes and long vocabulary lists ). Each of the three hour-long CDs is filled with interesting conversation topics that allow you to listen to what you want to listen at your own pace. Soon, you'll be able to communicate in Italian about:...

The tips, techniques, and information presented here give students, travelers, and businesspeople a primer on how to speak Italian. Complete with updates, a bonus CD, and the traditional For Dummies user-friendly format, this new edition of Italian For Dummies gives you reliable lessons, practice, and language learning techniques for speaking Italian with ease and confidence.

Featuring a revamped, user-friendly organization that builds on your knowledge and ability, Italian For...

Italian All-in-One For Dummies appeals to those readers looking for a comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to mastering the Italian language. It contains content from all For Dummies Italian language instruction titles, including Italian For Dummies, Intermediate Italian For Dummies, Italian Verbs For Dummies, Italian Phrases For Dummies, Italian Grammar For Dummies, and Italian For Dummies Audio Set.

• Offers readers interested in learning Italian a valuable reference to all aspects of this popular language
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