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Italian Made Simple: Revised and Updated | 
 enlarge | Author: Cristina Mazzoni
Publisher: Made Simple
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 59142
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0767915399
Dewey Decimal Number: 458.2421
EAN: 9780767915397
ASIN: 0767915399
Publication Date: August 19, 2003
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Product Description
Whether you are planning a romantic Italian getaway, packing a knapsack for
your junior year abroad, or just want to engage your Italian business associate in everyday conversation, Italian Made Simple is the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all the non-essentials and refreshingly easy to understand, Italian Made Simple includes:
* basics of grammar
* vocabulary building exercises
* pronunciation aids
* common expressions
* word puzzles and language games
* contemporary reading selections
* Italian culture and history
* economic information
* Italian-English and English-Italian dictionaries
Complete with drills, exercises, and answer keys for ample practice opportunities, Italian Made Simple will soon have you speaking Italian like a native.
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 EXCELLENT help for going to Italy September 19, 2008
bookgirl
After living in Italy for a year, always in an Italian-only household and d 7 months in an Italian-only school, this is one of my 2 favorite books for explaining Italian, the rest I'd pretty much throw out (at least those in English). I was actually hoping for one in the same series for Danish, it was so helpful in the beginning, for getting a basic grasp, in order to move on. {Second book, for explaining the nuts & bolts of why things work the way they do, Soluzioni!: a practical guide to Italian grammar, IMMENSELY helpful.}
Those phrase books don't help you when people give a response that isn't in the book {and when does real life Ever follow a script?}
 Va Bene April 20, 2008
Odalys Diaz (Tampa, FL)
I've been using this book for three months now, and I have to say this book is well worth its price. The story is interesting, the scioglilingue (tongue twisters)are fun and help with pronounciation, and the vocabulary is well chosen. What I enjoyed the most is that it teaches much of what is actually spoken in Italy and not just formal text-book Italian. There are plenty of exercises to ensure that you remember what you just learned.
The only downside is that they made a few typos throughout, but they are pretty easy to catch so you shouldn't be confused.
Excellent January 1, 2007
km86617 (Maryland USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a great way to learn Italian in one's own spare time. Before moving to Italy for four months, I took a beginner's course which used a different book. This book focused on conversational skills and was completely dependent on audio recordings. It never taught the basic grammar and the syntax of Italian.
Ms. Mazzoni's book presents everything in English and Italian, explaining in detail all of the important aspects of the language. My Italian has improved exponentially since I started using this book. It is by far the best of the four books which I have gone over.
Quick Facts: The vocab words are well chosen, the readings are fun and force the student to think in Italian, and the chapters are presented in an orderly fashion.
A good place to start July 19, 2006
P. Fawcett
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A good basic introduction, I was pleased with this book. My wife and I started reading a bit each night starting about 6 weeks before a trip to Italy (neither of us had any knowledge of Italian beforehand), and we ended up being able to express ourselves in a very rudimentary caveman Italian for the month that we were there. We also ended up being able to decipher at least the basic meaning of most of the written Italian we encountered and had to deal with - this pretty much satisfied our purposes. The book itself would take you much further than that with a bit more of a studious approach. It presents the material in a fairly straightforward and logical way, and the readings especially were very useful. I also noticed a few minor typographical errors, but nothing catastrophic. While there is a modest dictionary section, a traveller to Italy will also want a small pocket Italian-English dictionary, I had good luck with the Langenscheidt (sp?) edition. While in Italy, we often found it harder to understand people's responses than to make ourselves understood, so the beginner is also advised to find ways to listen to some spoken Italian, to help with understanding the pronunciations.
Good Learning Tool July 17, 2006
Carmen Salvino (Ft Lauderdale, FL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall I am happy with this book. One feature that I really like are the small translation dictionary sections in the back of the book. They go both ways (from English to Italian and from Italian to English). The book gives you a small batch of nouns, verbs, and adjetives in each section. It's a great book for the price.
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