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.Contatti: Activity Book v.1: A First Course in Italian: Activity Book Vol 1 (Contatti)
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by: Mariolina Freeth, Giuliana Checketts

May 30, 2003
This book has a lot of useful exercises to do at home between classes to practise all the new grammar that's been introduced in the different chapters. It also has a key to all the exercises so you can check them yourself.

A word of warning though. The instructions aren't always very clear, particularly not to beginners, so you might need a teacher to explain them to you. There are also no explanations so it's not always easy to see what you've done wrong and why it's wrong. Furthermore, there's a lot of typos, both in the main part of the book and in the answer section so don't always accept something as wrong, do ask your teacher if you think it's supposed to be right.
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.Rapid Italian: 200+ Essential Words and Phrases Anchored into Your Long Term Memory with Great Music (Musical Brain Trainer)
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by: Marlon Lodge

July 15, 2005
This is an amazing item, I have tried many diferent techniques to learn Italian and this is by far the best. I really do encourage you to buy this you won't regret it. The voices used are really good as well, they saying everything clearly allowing you to understand quicker. The music is also an added bonus it allows the words to stick in your brain faster, and makes the experience alot more enjoyable. With this product its not a matter of having to use it, but you want to use it. Fantastic.
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.Talk Italian: (1and 2) Box Set (Talk)
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by: Alwena Lamping

July 15, 2008
This is an amazing item, I have tried many diferent techniques to learn Italian and this is by far the best. I really do encourage you to buy this you won't regret it. The voices used are really good as well, they saying everything clearly allowing you to understand quicker. The music is also an added bonus it allows the words to stick in your brain faster, and makes the experience alot more enjoyable. With this product its not a matter of having to use it, but you want to use it. Fantastic.
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.Michel Thomas Foundation Course: Spanish (Michel Thomas Series)
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by: Michel Thomas

September 29, 2006
This is an excellent, confidence building introduction to Spanish with a great teaching technique. There are two good header reviews by other contributors to read; one is entitled "Michel Thomas - Learning Through Understanding" (The most helpful favourable review) and the other is "He should have ditched the English guy" (The most helpful critical review). I agree entirely with them both and do not wish to repeat what they already say very well but would only wish to emphasise two things:-

1. The male student is an absolute tin eared, hesitant, stammering buffoon who, four hours into the lesson, still can't get even the most basic pronunciation correct. A lot of time is wasted trying to get this twit to say things correctly and ... Read More:
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.Instant Recall Spanish Vocabulary: Learn and Remember Spanish Faster Than You Ever Imagined Possible! (Instant Recall)
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by: Michael Gruneberg

November 01, 2001
OK, so some of the associations are a bit dodgy, but I actually found this to be really funny, which ultimately helped me to remember the words.

With only 200 words you're not going to become fluent, however I found the vocab to be really useful when used in conjunction with Michel Thomas' 8 disc foundation course (which concentrates more on sentence structure and verbs). My husband didn't use Instant Recall (and only did 6 of the 8 Michel Thomas discs) and it was surprising how much I had to translate/communicate during our recent trip to Cuba.

It concentrates more on Latin American pronunciation, which was good for our purpose. I did find that the translation of a couple of the words didn't quite match up, but this was ... Read More:
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.AQA Physics A AS Level: Student's Book
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by: Jim Breithaupt

March 24, 2008
this book is ok, i suppose it is the only choice if u r doing the aqa
syllabus, only a few bad points, first few chapters there are practically no worked examples, at the end of each chapter there are
some summary questions with the answers at the back of the book,
sometimes i dont know how on earth did they arrive at that answer because
they dont have worked examples to help u,i had to ask teacher to explain how they got the answers.

Its only the last few units, they have some worked examples.
Also they put examination style questions, but no answers for that too,
so u dont know if you are right or wrong unless u get the teacher
to explain to u

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.A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
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by: John Butt, Carmen Benjamin

April 30, 2004
This is, undoubtedly, -the- grammar reference for those learning Spanish. It has a high level of detail that will appeal to those with a working knowledge of the language, but may be intimidating to someone new to Spanish.

The text is liberally interspersed with examples, and is very clear - particularly with the glossary at the back, which contains explanations of various grammatical terms that are used.

I would consider this book to be a 'must-have' for anyone wanting to get a firmer grasp of Spanish grammar.
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.Palabra Por Palabra: A New Advanced Spanish Vocabulary
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by: Phil Turk

June 30, 2006
I am a final year university student and i use this book regularly when preparing oral presentations and compositions, as well as to find phrases to impress the examiners. It's very useful when you have an idea but you don't know exactly how to express it - the sections are clearly organised into themes. Buy it if you're fed up of using the same old sentence constructions and want to make your written and spoken spanish more sophisticated.
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.Schaum's Outline of French Grammar (Schaum's Outline Series)
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by: Mary Coffman Crocker

July 01, 1999
A generally well organised primer for those planning to take French to a serious level. The book is well laid out and the explainations are for the most part very clear.

There are one or two errors in the book (for example in the list of impersonal clauses that take the subjunctive - I hasten to add that my native French speaking teacher identified these, not me), but not significant enough to devalue it. The cross referencing is a little patchy in places and some of the exercises on the dry side, but then since when was grammar supposed to be fun!

The section on verb usage is mostly excellent but the section on pronouns would benefit from expansion and clearer examples. Overall though, a very good buy.

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.Wannabe a Writer?
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by: Jane Wenham-Jones

May 01, 2007
I bought this book after reading the reviews on here because I have discovered recently that I have a really strong interest in writing. I'd always thought writing was for a particular sort of person, the very talented, super-creative sorts who have characters and plots falling out of their ears. This book helped me to see that writing is for anyone who has the desire to write and that if you fancy having a go you should go for it.

The first few chapters had me laughing out loud with tears rolling down my face. It was such good fun, not a serious text book at all yet getting many serious points across. I wish I could write like that!

I also enjoyed the input from wide ranges of other authors, agents and publishers that provided both balance ... Read More:
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