The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian On Your Own

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Summary: A common sense approach, unlike most other Italian books
Review: Features in this book that I really appreciated were the comprehensive lists of words within each topic, e.g., verbs in each conjugation, idioms, and function-oriented categories. While there are some errors (one wonders if an expert in Italian reviewed the book), most are easily corrected by the reader. The approach is logical, sometimes light-hearted, and easier to understand than many of the standard grammars. I don't, however, believe that you can learn Italian on your own just by using this book. The book itself tells the reader to go out and buy a dictionary and grammar. I would add some language tapes/CDs. Furthermore, the way to pronounce the words often cannot be determined from the phonetic spellings by an inexperienced learner. Even so, this is my favorite reference for learning Italian after one year of college course.

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Summary: Molto buono, eccellente, very good, excellent
Review: Molto buono, eccellente, see reading this book has already made me learn a few workds in Italain. That is how good I think it is. I have never been that good at learning new languages before, but this book is so interesting and easy to understand I am learning new sentences and words every day. I can even converse with Italian speaking people now. I love my copy of this book, I am so happy that I finally found a book to help me to learn to speak Italian. You will like it if you get it.

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Summary: An enjoyful and encouraging system to learn Italian
Review: This is a proper book to make a quick, but adequate introduction to Italian, so that you can survive in Italy till you improve with more sofisticated language trainings. It includes all the basic grammar, it gives exercises so that you can practise, but they are not a lot, hence you may proceed fast.Besides grammar in each chapter it gives a different batch of words related to a useful subject( health, kitchen etc.). There is a sufficient vocabulary at the end.It uses an encouraging and motivating language. It is a good book for those who need to reach to a specific level in a short time.