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Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur Conversational Italian
Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program.
This course includes Lessons 1-16 from the Italian Level 1 program - 8 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Topics include: greetings, numbers, meals, shopping, telling time, scheduling activities, and asking and giving directions. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Italian.
Reading instruction begins in Lesson 9 to provide you with an introduction to reading Italian. A Reading Booklet PDF must be downloaded.
The Italian Language
Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, Croatia, and Slovenia. Italian is spoken by about 58 million people in Italy, 24,000 in San Marino, 840,000 in Switzerland, another million in other European countries, and approximately 5 million in North and South America. Historically, Italian is a daughter language of Latin. Italian uses the Roman alphabet and the pronunciation of the language follows the spelling very closely.
This course includes Lessons 1-16 from the Italian Level 1 program - 8 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Topics include: greetings, numbers, meals, shopping, telling time, scheduling activities, and asking and giving directions. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Italian.
Reading instruction begins in Lesson 9 to provide you with an introduction to reading Italian. A Reading Booklet PDF must be downloaded.
The Italian Language
Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, Croatia, and Slovenia. Italian is spoken by about 58 million people in Italy, 24,000 in San Marino, 840,000 in Switzerland, another million in other European countries, and approximately 5 million in North and South America. Historically, Italian is a daughter language of Latin. Italian uses the Roman alphabet and the pronunciation of the language follows the spelling very closely.
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8 pages, Audio CD
First published October 3, 2005
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June 29, 2023
Adesso posso dire più di "mi piace andare di baggi giamppi". :)
imo, probs too much time spent on numbers; the arithmetic problems were very creative and helpful and good for drills, but the multiple "would you like to eat with me at 1?" "No, at two!" "At two?" "No, at three!" were redundant and did not feel like a conversation I would actually have...plus the how many euros do I owe you/how many dollars do you have, I just wish we had gotten into a few other relevant verbs and vocab. But I do actually love this Pimsleur method, it seems to really work for retention and pronunciation.
imo, probs too much time spent on numbers; the arithmetic problems were very creative and helpful and good for drills, but the multiple "would you like to eat with me at 1?" "No, at two!" "At two?" "No, at three!" were redundant and did not feel like a conversation I would actually have...plus the how many euros do I owe you/how many dollars do you have, I just wish we had gotten into a few other relevant verbs and vocab. But I do actually love this Pimsleur method, it seems to really work for retention and pronunciation.
May 18, 2017
I listened to this in the car. It is superb!! I can speak some Italian. I loved it so much, I had my local library order level 2
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