Berlitz Essential Italian (Berlitz Essentials)

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Summary: Excellent for brushing up
Review: Found this to be rather useful as a refresher. I can imagine a beginner feeling a little lost or overwhelmed without classroom instruction or a tutor to model pronunciation and train the ear to hear this language. It includes written dialogues, vocabulary, grammatical instruction, reviews and tests.

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Summary: Excellent for brushing up
Review: Found this to be rather useful as a refresher. I can imagine a beginner feeling a little lost or overwhelmed without classroom instruction or a tutor to model pronunciation and train the ear to hear this language. It includes written dialogues, vocabulary, grammatical instruction, reviews and tests.

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Summary: An excellent learning tool
Review: I found this Berlitz language guidebook to be up to par with this company's usual excellent quality language instruction. This book would be a valuable addition to anyone's Italian language self instruction collection.

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Summary: I learned italian in less than 20 lessons
Review: I loved this book! It taught me really well. I was really prepared to go to Rome after using this book because I could speak the language. It is easy to use and self-explanitory. I am very glad that I used it.

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Summary: Not Recommended For Beginners
Review: The book doesn't take the time to explain anything; its just straight forward, "here's the words, memorize them and complete the exercises." I found it very difficult to learn anything from this book.

Rating:
Summary: Not Recommended For Beginners
Review: The book doesn't take the time to explain anything; its just straight forward, "here's the words, memorize them and complete the exercises." I found it very difficult to learn anything from this book.