The Everything Italian Practice Book with CD: Practical techniques to improve your speaking and writing skills

By Ronald Glen Wrigley

Complete with more than 200 exercises, this fun and accessible guide provides the opportunity to practice Italian grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and comprehension, and comes complete with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598693824
• ISBN13: 9781598693829
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

an excellent practice book

As I write, there are two reviews of this book and they baffle me: one says that the book doesn't have such elementary information as pronunciation in it, and the other complains that one must have some knowledge of Italian before being able to use it. The deck under the title says, "practical techniques to improve your speaking and writing skills." This assumes that one has something to improve, and the book does present excellent material for improving that something--if one has it in the first place. I like it a lot. The recorded material isn't designed to teach the basics, but it serves as a guide to hearing and understanding, and focuses on niceties of pronunciation. Once again, this is useful if one already has some Italian. The text doesn't take the hackneyed approach in which Maria meets John and longs to see her again . . . etc. Or the the approach in which the Smith family is boarding the airplane for their first trip to Italy. It simply takes up useful topics and provides practice material. Learners should be grateful.