Product Description

You can gain valuable insights into modern Italian culture, and extended reading material in Italian will enhance your learning experience, introducing more advanced language and specialist topics. Focusing on listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, Buongiorno Italia! will help you reach the equivalent of a first qualification, such as GCSE.

• 20 units based around authentic dialogues in Italian illustrate the basic structures and vocabulary in an everyday context
• Exercises, activities and explanations reinforce learning throughout the course

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52964 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 303 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent beginners guide for learing Italian
The book is divided into twenty chapters which gradually build your knowledge up from nil to a reasonable level of competence. Each chapter covers a 'situation' (such as in a cafe, booking a room etc) and includes conversation pieces (to go with the cassettes and TV programmes), vocab, references to simple grammar and exercises. The structure is such that it is fine as a self study aid on its own or in conjenction with other material.

An excellent easy to use guide for beginners to intermediate
I have successfully taught using this book for several years. It covers useful topics in a clear and interesting way. It has a wealth of exercises to practice your new-found knowledge. Grammar is introduced gently but thoroughly. It is a traditional style book and lacks the coloured pictures which newer books have but it is easy to follow and well presented. My only criticism is that the prices given as examples in the book are out of date making everything too cheap so don't be shocked when you go to Italy! The tapes are very useful and offer further practice. The book is user friendly and my students and I highly recommend it.

Brilliant for home study
I found this book a great help for studying at home. I go to evening classes once a week where we use 'Italianissimo' the BBC course. I find this a much better book to get along with. Being an adult in fulltime work its hard to find time to study.This is easy and practical, it gives me confidence.I find that it teaches me in such a way that I can retain the information.Ideal for conversational Italian and getting by on hloiday.