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Quickstart Italian from: BBC Active List Price: £13.00 City Travel Guides Price: £7.79 You Save: £5.21 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 420 EAN: 9780563471134 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0563471131 Label: BBC Active Manufacturer: BBC Active Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: March 06, 2003 Publisher: BBC Active Release Date: January 01, 1900 Studio: BBC Active Sales Rank: 21776 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Book Description: No reading, no writing, no problem! 140 minutes of Italian to help you speak Italian now Product Description: No reading, no writing, no problem! 140 minutes of Italian to help you speak Italian now Join Francesca, Stefano and Marco for 24 hours in Turin: listen to real Italian and learn how to find a place to stay, get around town, order in restaurants, hit the shops, have a drink, enjoy the night-life... and all the time build up your Italian so that you can speak with confidence. Designed specifically for those of you who don’t have much time on your hands, Quickstart Italian is a quick and simple introduction to Italian. With no reading and no writing required, it concentrates only on the essential language required for a short break abroad. The course is broken down into short, relevant, easy-to-learn categories, allowing you to grasp the basics of Italian, without having to master any complicated grammar or phrases. Synopsis: No reading, no writing, no problem! 140 minutes of Italian to help you speak Italian now Join Francesca, Stefano and Marco for 24 hours in Turin: listen to real Italian and learn how to find a place to stay, get around town, order in restaurants, hit the shops, have a drink, enjoy the night-life...and all the time build up your Italian so that you can speak with confidence. Designed specifically for those of you who don't have much time on your hands, Quickstart Italian is a quick and simple introduction to Italian. With no reading and no writing required, it concentrates only on the essential language required for a short break abroad. The course is broken down into short, relevant, easy-to-learn categories, allowing you to grasp the basics of Italian, without having to master any complicated grammar or phrases. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A Good Introduction and Good ValueI enjoy Quickstart Italian mainly because it is an easy introduction split into bitesize sections. In each 10 minute segment you'll learn three or four phrases useful in circumstances such as in a taxi, hotel, restaurant etc. Do a lesson or two a day and in a couple of weeks you'll have a much better grasp of basic Italian than you did before. I agree with another reviewer that the frequent use of the title music is a bit annoying but I found the course effective and accessible which is something. My only criticism of the course is that it gives no explanation of verb structure leaving you stuck in the tenses that they use. However, Michel Thomas' Introductory course gives excellent coverage of verb structure but doesn't cover the everyday usage ... Read More: Rating:  - Quickstart Italian(audiobook) ExcellentThis is the best language CD I've heard. Don't settle for cheaper versions. Ideal for beginners and holiday communications. Clear and practical. My only previous language experience was a little french at school. I listened to this in my car learning one chapter at a time. I highly recommend this. I am so impressed I have now purchased Quickstart German. Rating: - Good for beginnersJust listening to this CD set helped me pick up the basics of Italian. Several short scenes are played out and these are then broken down and explained. Breaks on the CD let you practice out loud without having to use the pause button on your CD player, something I find very frustrating and impractical if listening in the car. There's a booklet included (not mentioned on the cover of the pack) showing all the conversations on the CD. I found this very helpful, especially when trying to guess the right spelling of some words - and getting them completely wrong! |
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