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Classics Contemporary Fiction Literary Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseThese Made Simple language series really are the best for self-studying, I have done their Spanish, German, French and Italian ones. After having completed books like Colloquial, I still felt that I did not have a good grasp on things; not how to carry a conversation, just make simple one-liners. My knowledge of grammar was a real mess as my training was based on memorizing grammar summary-tables rather than effective hands-on...
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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...
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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...
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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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I was eager to learn italian in a fun way and I was more than glad when I bought that book. The lessons were well divided and the exercises well put which allowed me to learn efficiently the lessons and to learn more vocabulary. After doing the whole book, I went to Italy and to tell you, I was glad I could understand what people were saying and I was able to talk to them. This is how I learned italian and I recommand it to...
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