Easy Italian Reader, Premium: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students

By Riccarda Saggese

Book Overview

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Enhance your Italian reading skills with this primer for premium results

Easy Italian Reader is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level language learners, this bestselling title features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow you to rapidly build comprehension. Part I provides the story of Christine, an American girl whose family moves to Italy; Part II describes episodes from the colorful history of Italy; and Part III contains three stories from contemporary Italian literature.

New to this second edition is accompanying material in the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app:

Recordings of 35 passages from the book (all of Part I; Volevo i pantaloni and Vita in Part III)Additional pre-reading flashcards, grouped into Nomi, Aggettivi and VerbiAdditional post-reading exercises from the author for every passage

Note: audio recordings (totaling 80 minutes) require Internet access.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071849831
• ISBN13: 9780071849838
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Valuable learning tool

I am a beginning/intermediate adult Italian language student--taking lessons weekly from a tutor. I have worked my way through about 1/3 of the reader and find it at just the right level for me and it's been a valuable way to practice translation and vocabulary. Well done.

Good way to increase vocabulary

The readings in this book become more difficult gradually, making it easy to increase your vocabulary and your exposure to more complicated grammatical structures. As a fringe benefit, the later readings will also add to your knowledge of Italian history. The book does have a vocabulary section, but you'll still need to keep an Englisth-Italian dictionary handy.

Delightful

This reader is a delight for the begining student of the Italian language. The Chapters are short and new words introduced are defined. Love it!

eccellentissimo

This reader complements "Il Milione" and "Le Avventure di Pinocchio" for interested students of Italian literature. "Easy Italian Reader" has great (dopo la lettura)after reading written comprehension exercises to assess ones reading skills. Helpful word glossaries assist in vocabulary enrichment.

Perfect for beginners

I am just learning Italian and this book is great for the basics. The exercises really help make it fun and real-life-like. I highly recommend this book.