Start speaking Italian today with this modern interactive beginner's course!
A language steeped in history, culture and art, Italian is spoken by over 65 million people worldwide. Italian is also one of the most widely-studied Romance languages.
Ideal for those new to Italian, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video teaches both written and spoken Italian using modern pedagogy and engaging audio and video.
Follow the adventures of Luca and Chiara! Luca is an American visiting Italy for the first time and Chiara is his tour guide. Across the book's 16 chapters, they visit eight Italian cities from Rome up to Milan and down to Sicily. Food, family, art, history, fashion and romance await them. Join Luca and Chiara for an Italian language and culture avventura!
Includes:
An introduction to the Italian language and basics of pronunciation
Sixteen carefully-paced lessons, each one opening with dialogues about an everyday topic followed by vocabulary, grammar lessons, and exercises
Free companion website with hundreds of self-correcting exercises + video content
Online audio files for free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers
Easy-to-use QR code links to over 100 audio tracks and videos on topics like how to order a meal or shop at a store to reinforce using Italian in everyday situations
Answer key to the exercises
Italian-English and English-Italian glossaries
Lessons equivalent to two semesters of college-level Italian
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7818-1467-6 (9780781814676)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tom Means is professor of Italian at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is an expert in language teaching and world cinema. He has a Ph.D. from Rutgers and taught at New York University before joining CUNY. For Hippocrene Books, he authored the Instant Vocabulary Builder series for learning Italian, Spanish, French, Brazilian-Portuguese and Ingles (English for Spanish speakers).
