Joseph E. Germano - Schaum’s Outline of Italian Grammar, 4th Edition

JOSEPH E. GERMANO is Associate Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages, State University of New York College at Buffalo. He has taught both Italian and Spanish at the secondary and college level, and holds a New Jersey State Department of Education Dual Certification in Italian and Spanish, K-12, from Seton Hall University. A native of Italy, Dr. Germano received his Ph.D. in Italian, in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, with a concentration in Franco-Latin Literature, from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he coordinated the Rutgers Italian Workshop Series from 1976 through 1981.

He earned his Bachelors in French and Spanish from the University of Nebraska (Omaha), and his M.A. in Italian with a Spanish minor from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He is the founder of NEMLA Italian Studies which he edited/co-edited from 1977 through 1986, now published at Rutgers University. Dr. Germano is the author of articles on Italian Literature and Culture, and of four language textbooks. He developed and taught, among others, a course of Business Italian, and completed a book manuscript of Commercial Italian.

From 1985 through 1987, he was Resident Director of the State University of New York Italian Study Abroad Program in Siena, Italy. He is a technical and literary professional translator. While in Siena, he was invited to translate a technical manual describing a new way to execute fresco painting: Otello Chiti, Fresco on Cloth or Other Non-Mural Supports (Original title: Affresco su tela o altri supporti non murali). Introduction by Pietro Annigoni. English Translation by Joseph E. Germano.

Poggibonsi: Nencini, 1986. His many literary translations include poetry by Da Lentini, Protonotaro, Federico II, Dante, Angiolieri, Cavalcanti, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Boiardo, Lorenzo de Medici, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Groto, Foscolo, Leopardi, Pirandello, Govoni, and Jahier. CONRAD J. SCHMITT was Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Language, ESL, and Bilingual Publishing with McGraw-Hill Book Company. Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Mr. Schmitt taught languages at all levels of instruction from elementary school through college.

He has taught Spanish at Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey and Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He also served as Coordinator of Foreign Languages for the Hackensack, New Jersey, Public Schools. Mr. Schmitt is the author of many foreign language books at all levels of instruction, including the communicating titles in Schaums Foreign Language Series. He has traveled extensively throughout the world. He presently devotes his full time to writing, lecturing, and teaching.

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This Fourth Edition, as the previous ones, has been designed to make the study of Italian grammar easier for the learner. In memory of my parents,
Antonio German and
Maria Carmela Romeo German This Fourth Edition, as the previous ones, has been designed to make the study of Italian grammar easier for the learner.

The book is divided into eleven chapters, each of which concentrates on a basic problem area in Italian: the pronunciation of Italian, nouns and articles, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, numbers, dates, and time, verbs, negatives, interrogatives, pronouns, prepositions, and special uses of certain verbs. Each grammatical or structural point is introduced by a simple, succint explanation in English, and this explanation is further clarified by a number of examples in Italian. It is recommended that you first read the explanation, then study the illustrative examples, and only then proceed to the series of exercises provided. The best way to learn a language is to practice it-both in oral and written formsso you should complete each exercise, checking your answers with those at the end of the book, before moving on to a new topic. In Foreign Language Pedagogy there are certain teaching strategies (strategies that are also valid in the teaching of other subjects) which, if violated, can produce negative results. There are two bad habits that diligent foreign language instructors have always tried to avoid: 1) writing a wrong word, phrase, or sentence on the blackboard, thus teaching by using negative examples, and 2): using Anglicized phonetic transcriptions (often hyphenated) of a foreign language on the blackboard or in handouts prepared for students.