Italian Language Reference

Italian the Easy Way

Name: Italian the Easy Way
Author: Marcel Danesi
ISBN: 9780764134135

by Marcel Danesi

Write a review

Overview

Readers who want to teach themselves Italian at their own pace and outside a formal classroom setting will find this book an excellent source for getting started. Meanwhile, its many exercises and quick-check quizzes make it a fine textbook supplement for classroom use. The book opens with a discussion of Italian sounds, pronunciation, and spelling, with advice on stress and intonation in spoken Italian. Chapters that follow coach readers in greeting people, asking and answering basic question, polite expression, counting, making comparisons, expressing preferences, and carrying on everyday verbal transactions, for instance, at stores, banks, and restaurants. The updated text reflects current trends including use of communications devices and the euro. New in this edition are cultural capsules that discuss Italy and the Italian way of life. The author's pleasant, user-friendly approach to the language helps make learning Italian truly easy.

This imaginatively presented course is useful to those outside a classroom environment who want to begin learning Italian, as well as those students of Italian who wish to supplement their studies to better their grades and increase language proficiency.