Product Description

Conjugate verbs like a Italian

Most verb books offer little more than conjugation charts and a few mechanical exercises. Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses gives you much more. In addition to thorough demonstrations of conjugations for regular and irregular verbs, it features plenty of useful examples and numerous engaging exercises that help you remember verb tenses. And, equally important, it explains when and why to use them.

Two handy appendices (one listing conjugations and another matching verbs with their prepositions) make it easy for you to find the right words in Italian quickly.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40784 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Inside Flap
The only guide focusing exclusively on an area of paramount concern for serious beginning- to intermediate-level language learners
Follows the critically acclaimed Practice Makes Perfect approach, featuring tons of realistic examples and skill-building exercises in a variety of formats
Author is an accomplished language book author and a distinguished college-level language instructor

From the Back Cover

Learn more than conjugation and discover the right verb tenses to use in conversation and in writing

If you are looking for help on memorizing Italian verb conjugations, then any old Italian verb book will do. But if you are interested in acquiring fluency in Italian, you'll need to learn how those fundamental building blocks of language are actually used in the context of everyday speech and writing. And that's where Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses comes in.

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses goes beyond other verb books to coach you in when and why verb tenses are used. In addition to an array of fully conjugated verbs, you will find clear and concise explanations that pinpoint why specific tenses work in given situations as well as tons of engaging examples and numerous skill-building exercises. Combine those features with the renowned Practice Makes Perfect format and you have the ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate Italian-language learners whose goal is to learn to speak and write Italian with fluency.

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses gives you:

• Detailed explanations of when and why to use different verb tenses
• Plenty of lively examples covering a wide range of topics
• Numerous engaging exercises
• Comprehensive verb conjugation tables

About the Author

Paola Nanni-Tate teaches Italian at The Ohio State University in the adult continuing-education program and is the author of Italian Verb Drills.

Customer Reviews

Inadequite
In the absence of an immersion environment, a language learner is going to have to do so much more private study to become proficient in a language. This is why a book, such as this one, which offers plenty of drills and excercises to practice Italian grammar, is deemed to be necessary for a learner.

While the idea seems a good one, the delivery of the material is less than acceptable. Firstly, this book requires an exhaustive knowledge of some relatively obscure vocabulary in order to complete the exercises. Also, unless you have an extensive knowledge of articles, prepositions, pronouns, word order etc, this means that you are going to get many questions inadvertantly wrong. The book simply does not explain these things - I know, I know, it's a book about grammar, and you can't really expect it to explain every detail about Italian... But there are books on the market which are much more thorough and explain three times as much as this one does - i.e. "Schaum's Outline of Italian Grammar" and "The Reference Book of Italian Grammar" are very good and comprehensively boost your Italian skills.

Excellent
Good grammar book for revising verb tenses, easy to use and understand, in excellent condition and fast delivery

Italian verbs
Maybe the worlds most boring subject, but if you want to speak the language you have to be able to use the verbs. This book will be of great assistance if used regulary in conjunction with other learning aids and lessons