Product Description

Providing vocabulary-building opportunities, the pictures and labels in this book promote direct association of the Italian word to ensure effective learning. The text has been updated, and there are also a number of new illustrations.'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8541 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-25
• Original language: English, Italian
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Customer Reviews

A practical accessory for building up basic vocabulary
I use First Thousand Words in French with my private tutees, and I thought I would experiment on myself what it is like to learn vocabulary from this series, so I got the Italian version.

The small format version make it more handy to carry around and more suitable for use by adults. The redesigned cover won't embarrass you in public places.
One can learn the words thanks to the little labelled pictures in the margin, then ignore these, look at the central scene and spot and name the objects in situation. Easy, effective and a good way to utilise spare minutes.
The pronunciation and stress guide provided for each word in the glossary is easy to understand, but the paragraphs giving the general rules of pronunciation and stress are brief and sketchy. I have had to read on that somewhere else.
Definitely not a self-contained teach-yourself method, but a practical accessory for building up basic vocabulary easily.

Lovely pictures, useful book
The pictures in the First Thousand Words series are attractive, colourful, and very detailed with lots of humourous action to talk about. I got it for my toddler, and she saw it on her bookshelf and wanted to look at it and talk about the pictures straight away. It's entirely suitable for any age group for conversation practice. With a thousand words it's good value for money.

Great for adults learning Italian too!
I'm 45 and learning Italian in an evening class and have found this book extremely helpful.

The book is grouped into categories - eg colours, the weather, animals, sports, opposites, clothes, food, transport etc - with useful pictures which make learning vocabulary very helpful. (Our teacher actually copies bits of this book [legally!] for us as well, but it's not the same in black and white!

The links to the Internet ensure that you pronouce the words correctly.

I highly recommend this book - it's especially helpful to visual learners like myself.