Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate (Book and CD Set): Includes Comprehensive Coursebook, 8 Audio CDs, and CD-ROM with Flashcards

by Living Language

Learn to speak, understand, read, and write Italian with the most complete and up-to-date program available!

Developed by the experts at Living Language, this deluxe Italian course has everything you need to learn Italian from scratch or to revive the Italian that you learned years ago. Ultimate Italian is a comprehensive, multi-media program that includes 8 CDs, a book, and a bonus interactive CD-ROM. It’s the perfect way to learn Italian for school, travel, work, or personal enrichment. In this package you’ll find:

1 comprehensive coursebook with 40 lessons. Each lesson contains a lively and authentic dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and usage, cultural highlights, and plenty of practice. The book also contains review sections, a grammar summary, a glossary, and more.

8 Audio CDs
*4 CDs for use with the book
*4 more CDs that expand upon what you learn in each lesson, designed for review, reinforcement, and practice on-the-go

1 CD-ROM that contains flashcards with over 500 vocabulary words and phrases. You can see the word and its English translation, and can hear the word spoken too. Includes both learn and practice modes.

Genres: Nonfiction, Italy, Reference

Audio CD

First published November 7, 2000

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

i owe this book everything. definitely the best tool for learning italian i’ve used yet

[Angela Terasa Baldree · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you want CDs/books to brush up your Italian before a trip this is not what you want. First, the phrases they give you are not phrases you'll actually use on vacation. There's a section on speaking to your hair dresser (I have split ends, I want a bob cut). In the computer section the phrases are I think there's a disc in drive a, give me the mouse. However the phrase we all ask in the hotel - what's the wifi password is not included.

But the biggest complaint I have is while the English sentences are spoken slowly & clearly, they speak the Italian sentences quickly, not clearly, and only once. It would be nice if they repeated some phrases. I got thru 2 disc before I moved onto a better set.