Italian for Educated Guessers: Shortcuts to the Language

By C. Peter Rosenbaum

This book is for students of Italian who enjoy the language but hate the drudgery of rote memorization. It is for people who have finished the equivalent of one semester of college Italian, and who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961404515
• ISBN13: 9780961404512
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Forza Pr
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful threshold to the Italian language and to Italy.

As author of this book, I am pleased to quote a review written by Beverly Allen, Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University: "Dr. Rosenbaum has done a marvellous thing: he has written a very smart, adult, thorough introductory Italian grammar which is full of infectious good humour and a finely honed sensitivity to the problems facing the native English speaker when confronted by Italian. In all of this, his own enthusiastic openness to the world of Italian shines through not only as constant encouragement to the student, but also as constant entertainment. A wonderful threshold not just to the Italian language, but to Italy as well! EVVIVA!"

A gem for students of Italian

This book is a gem for students of the Italian language. It presents many hints for learning and remembering Italian words, with chapters like "The Regularities of Irregular Verbs," "Cognates: Faithful and Quasi," "Faking out Irregular Past Participles," and "How to Recognize, Remember, and Even Make, Nouns from Verbs." It also covers hints on how to speak easily in certain domains, such as "Popular Italian Words and Phrases," "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Expressions of Time," and "Hither, Thither, and Yon: Expressions of Place." All this is presented in an easy to read and entertaining manner, by an author who spent three years in Italy, and recorded those insights about the Italian language that were most helpful to him. It is truly, as the sub-title says, a "Shortcut to the Language."