Marcel Danesi - Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One

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Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One is a complete overview of the Italian language, from its basic conversation techniques to its advanced grammar, vocabulary, and usage. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One is a complete overview of the Italian language, from its basic conversation techniques to its advanced grammar, vocabulary, and usage.

It is aimed especially at self-taught learners, providing a user-friendly way to learn or review the language, at different levels. It can also be used in classrooms for various purposes, from review to in-depth treatment. This book is a compilation of five Practice Makes Perfect titles: Italian Conversation (by Marcel Danesi), Complete Italian Grammar (by Marcel Danesi), Italian Verb Tenses (by Paola Nanni-Tate), Italian Sentence Builder (by Paola Nanni-Tate), and Italian Problem Solver (by Alessandra Visconti). There are five parts that follow the above texts, with the selected chapters laid out in such a way that you will be building up your competence gradually and comprehensively, starting almost from scratch and working towards an all-inclusive knowledge and control of the Italian language. PART I: Conversation This part introduces you to the basics of Italian conversation, while teaching you how to use main grammatical and vocabulary items that will allow you to carry out conversations in specific contexts knowingly. PART III: Verb Tenses Learning to control Italian verbs always presents a particularly troublesome area of learning. PART III: Verb Tenses Learning to control Italian verbs always presents a particularly troublesome area of learning.

So, this part goes into great depth on verb tenseshow to conjugate them, use them, etc. PART IV: Sentence Building Putting all the parts together to construct effective Italian sentences is an important goal in learning a language proficiently. This part allows you to go over all the parts of grammar in an interconnected fashion so that you can become adept at this important aspect of Italian sentence formation. PART V: Problem Solver In this final part, you will encounter all those tricky areas of grammar and usage that confront every learner of Italian, with many opportunities to solve the problems that you typically encounter in using the language. This is an overall review section that will allow you to put everything together. In all the chapters you will find an abundance of practice material.

The answers, which contain detailed charts and tables, as well as two glossaries (Italian-English, English-Italian) are provided at the end of the book. This is a unique book, given its comprehensiveness and exhaustiveness. You have everything you will ever need here between two covers! Buon divertimento! Marcel Danesi
University of Toronto, 2019

This part has one aimto teach you how to converse in Italian and thus to get by in everyday situations. The emphasis is on how language is used in communication, not on the mechanics of the language in isolation, although there is plenty of that as well. This part is made up of eight chapters. Each chapter revolves around a specific communication function and is subdivided into three themes.