Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar

Practice Makes Perfect

by Marcel Danesi

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The most hands-on, practical workbook for learning toread, write and speak Italian flawlessly





Practice, practice, practice--and improve your ability to read, write and speak Italian as it's really used. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Third Edition has everything you need to progress from beginning to advanced fluency, from clear explanations and practical examples to all the practice required for language mastery.

This updated, new edition boasts enhanced audio support online and via mobile app, ensuring you'll speak the language as well as you write and read it. In addition to recordings of the answers of more than 150 exercises in the book, the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app now includes audio for hundreds of example sentences throughout the book, along with text-to-speech pronunciation for all vocabulary flashcard lists.

Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Third Edition features:





- 20 units covering all aspects of Italian grammar, with explanations that include useful/helpful comparisons with English grammar
- Recordings of exercise answers, and, new to this edition: recordings of example sentences throughout the book, plus a final chapter of review exercises
- Clear explanations and thorough exercises created by an experienced educator
- Excercises that can be used in the classroom or for individual study

Genres: Language, Italian Literature, Reference, Italy, Textbooks, Nonfiction

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Marcel Danesi (b. Marcello Danesi, 1946) is a current Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is known for his work in language, communications, and semiotics; being Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory.

He has also held positions at Rutgers University (1972), The University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1988), the Catholic University of Milan (1990), and the University of Lugano.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies and is a past-president of the Semiotic Society of America.

Reviews

[bird · Rating 4 out of 5]

dazzling. such verbs!

[livia · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Rating: 5 stars

- For all those of you who are learning Italian and thinking about picking up this book, do it. It covers most grammatical tenses (excluding ones that are extremely rare) and explains everything in an informative and easy-to-understand manner. The exercises are simple and help you memorize what you've learned. You'll learn so much from this book and you'll be able to converse with Italian speakers (even native speakers) when you're finished.

[patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

This workbook is very useful as a supplement to language learning on DuoLingo. I am days away from completing the DuoLingo Italiano course with full 5’s. It’s been a two and a half year long project.

[rory · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty much as advertised--it's a grammar. Except, if actually going to Italy or planning to speak Italian, you might want to go through the lessons almost in reverse, lol, or at least choose your own sequence. Lots of stuff you would think is the most practical is at the very end, including: numbers, dates, time, question words and how to ask a question, the list of glue words that people tend to fill sentences with in normal speech ("then", "yet", "always", "often", etc), and.. verbs and pronouns. Meanwhile, the first chapters are full of stuff that's not necessary for being understood, only for being correct, like all the articles that must agree with the number/gender of nouns. It would be easy for a perfectionist to get stuck indefinitely here, trying to memorize all forms of "the".

Consider that you can't form a complete sentence until Lesson 10 out of 20. You can't ask a question until Lesson 18. For me, being able to say something is a big factor in staying motivated, so using a sequence that doesn't support that is a weakness.

[Miruna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am very happy with how this book helps me to consolidate my grammar knowledge. It presents grammar rules briefly, with plenty of examples following. The exercises are at first sight not challenging, but they help consolidate the basics. Chapter divisions help with lesson planning - I do a chapter in two sittings as I have limited free time. I only wish I had bought the all-in-one version of this book.

My level is B1 (European framework). I am self taught, with an A2 exam passed in 2019.

[Olly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book but not enough exercises