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Summary: Ideal source if you need to quickly learn Italian.
Review: This resource guide (including two audio cassettes) is ideal if you are going to be traveling to Italy and you need to learn/brush up on some general expressions, but if you want to learn the language (in-depth) and form your own sentences, then this is not the best source. In it you will find basic phrases needed for communicating in a foreign country. The topics covered include the alphabet, numbers, time, general expressions, hotel and restaurant needs, transportation, communications, and emergency situations. The tapes are very clear and each phrase is spoken once in English and then translated twice in Italian. Overall, for not knowing any Italian, it has provided me with a "window view" (if you will) of the langauge, however I will be searching for something alittle more detailed on sentence structure and forming my own sentences in the future.
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Summary: Not a bad value, but a bit tedious
Review: This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and vocabulary. However, the organization of information assumes that you can keep interest listening to a bunch of discrete phrases repeated one after the other with no conversations or anything remotely natural. If you can, in fact, maintain interest while listening to these tapes repeatedly, then you'll do well with this set. If, on the other hand, you need something more dynamic, you might do well to look elsewhere.
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