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1.Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions: Practice Makes Perfect by: Daniela Gobetti May 01, 2006
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Written in a sloppy and thoughtless style. E.g. On page 5 the learner is introduced to two sentences: 'Seals love to play' and 'Bats are mammals.' This is redolent of the infamous nineteenth-century travellers' guide which offered 'My postillion has been struck by lightning' as a useful phrase to memorise. It is also full of careless mistakes e.g. on page 8 we are taught that 'a sinistra' means 'on the right.' Pulp it!

2.Easy Italian Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students: A Three-part Text for Beginning Students (Easy Reader Series) by: Riccarda Saggese December 01, 2005
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I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:

3.Italian Verb Drills (BGR12) by: Paola Nanni Tate October 01, 2003
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I am currently doing a intermediate level of italian but find it always useful to remember the key verbs. I have used a lot of italian books in order to understand italian and this one explains and does what it says ''drills'' those verbs into your mind with a good set of exercises. A well organized easy to understand book perfect for beginners of Italian! I would seriously recommend it.

4.Rapid Italian: 200+ Essential Words and Phrases Anchored into Your Long Term Memory with Great Music (Musical Brain Trainer) by: Marlon Lodge July 15, 2005
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This is an amazing item, I have tried many diferent techniques to learn Italian and this is by far the best. I really do encourage you to buy this you won't regret it. The voices used are really good as well, they saying everything clearly allowing you to understand quicker. The music is also an added bonus it allows the words to stick in your brain faster, and makes the experience alot more enjoyable. With this product its not a matter of having to use it, but you want to use it. Fantastic.

5.Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles (Language - Italian) by: Nancy Goldhagen November 01, 1989
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This is an amazing item, I have tried many diferent techniques to learn Italian and this is by far the best. I really do encourage you to buy this you won't regret it. The voices used are really good as well, they saying everything clearly allowing you to understand quicker. The music is also an added bonus it allows the words to stick in your brain faster, and makes the experience alot more enjoyable. With this product its not a matter of having to use it, but you want to use it. Fantastic.

6.Italian Short Stories: Racconti Italiano (New Penguin Parallel Text Series): Italian from: Penguin September 30, 1999
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This is a useful little book, well aimed at school-level students of written Italian. The stories are by well known names, some very famous (e.g. Primo Levi). As works of literature, they are not all particularly inspiring. However, if you have the stomach to read about the somewhat disgusting sex-lives of unclean peasants (as occurs in one story), then it is fine. A strong point is the notes about idiomatic usages, some of which are very useful, and indeed illuminating about life in modern Italy. I can confirm the accuracy of these notes. Recommendable, on the whole. Indeed, I hope that the author will continue, and give us further volumes.

7.Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary (Practice Makes Perfect Series) by: Daniela Gobetti January 01, 2008
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This is a useful little book, well aimed at school-level students of written Italian. The stories are by well known names, some very famous (e.g. Primo Levi). As works of literature, they are not all particularly inspiring. However, if you have the stomach to read about the somewhat disgusting sex-lives of unclean peasants (as occurs in one story), then it is fine. A strong point is the notes about idiomatic usages, some of which are very useful, and indeed illuminating about life in modern Italy. I can confirm the accuracy of these notes. Recommendable, on the whole. Indeed, I hope that the author will continue, and give us further volumes.

8.Francesco's Venice : Complete BBC Series starring: Francesco Da Mosto June 19, 2006
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This series is far more than a tourist trap - particularly as guide Francesco da Mosto would rather there were less visitors to his city (to buy less fake glass/carnival masks/plastic gondolas/jester hats)! Francesco is charming, witty and wonderfully insouciant as he presents an informative yet dramatic history of Venice, La Serenissima. He acknowledges its past arrogance and mistakes, whilst laughing at some of the more bizarre traditions (even he isn't sure about the election of the doges), but all the while maintains an awed respect for the stunning architecture and art, engineering and endurance of his home; Francesco is proud to be Venetian, and I only wish I could share the honour.

9.Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses (Practice Makes Perfect Series) by: Paola Nanni-Tate July 04, 2006
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In the absence of an immersion environment, a language learner is going to have to do so much more private study to become proficient in a language. This is why a book, such as this one, which offers plenty of drills and excercises to practice Italian grammar, is deemed to be necessary for a learner. While the idea seems a good one, the delivery of the material is less than acceptable. Firstly, this book requires an exhaustive knowledge of some relatively obscure vocabulary in order to complete the exercises. Also, unless you have an extensive knowledge of articles, prepositions, pronouns, word order etc, this means that you are going to get many questions inadvertantly wrong. The book simply does not explain these things - I know, I know, it's ... Read More:

10.Italian Stories/novelle Italiene: A Dual-language Book by: Jr. Hall September 17, 1990
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The short stories are entertaining, and they cover Italian writers from Machiavelli to Pirandello. But the reason I bought this book is to study Italian. With Italian on the left and English on the right, this collection presents students with an easy way to build vocabulary and sample "literary" writing not found in regular textbooks. Students should have at least an intermediary knowledge of Italian, in order to at least recognize the various past tenses employed.

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