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SPEAK ITALIAN WITH CONFIDENCE IN JUST 6 WEEKS!The Living Language® Italian Complete Course teaches the basics of Italian language and usage. It uses a highly effective speed-learning method developed by U.S. government experts to teach languages to overseas-bound service personnel and diplomats.THREE 60-MINUTE COMPACT DISCS WITH 40 LESSONS• Begin with simple words and progress to complex phrases and sentences. • Just listen and repeat after the native speakers on the recordings to learn naturally, the way you learned English. ITALIAN COURSEBOOK• 40 lessons from the recordings with translations, additional vocabulary, detailed explanations, quizzes, and reviews.• Verb charts, a comprehensive grammar summary, and a section on letter writing are also included.ITALIAN–ENGLISH / ENGLISH–ITALIAN DICTIONARY• More than 20,000 words, idioms, and expressions.• Examples show how words are used in everyday conversation. • 1,000 frequently used words are highlighted for easy reference.
Series: LL(R) Complete Basic Courses
Audio CD
Publisher: Living Language; 1st edition (April 16, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400020158
ISBN-13: 978-1400020157
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2.1 x 7.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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This course boasts of teaching 20,000 words, phrases and expressions. Maybe, I did not count. I did notice, however, that the course has neither structure, nor logic, nor exercises.It consists of 3 CDs, one dictionary and a coursebook. Each word in the coursebook is spoken on the CD. All speakers seem to be native Italians. Sounds perfect, doesn't it? The problem is, that for beginning learners this 40-lesson course is pretty useless.The first 2 lessons consist of long lists of names of people, cities, countries, Italian words that are similar to English words, the letters of the alphabet etc, all without sentences or context. Just long lists. Lessons 3 and 4 bring words for each of the vowels and consonants. Lesson five counts from 1 to 10, and has another set of lists for days, months, seasons etc. None of these words are used in sentences. Lesson six starts with sentences and explains some grammar, but again you just memorize long lists such as 8 different ways of saying good-bye, or 8 ways of saying nice-to-meet-you. Although those words will be very useful, should you ever get to memorize them out of context, the order in which they appear does not make sense at all. For example, in lesson 10 you learn in this order: the book is red, she is young, ice is cold, he is intelligent, it's me, I am Italian, what is it made of, it is silver, whose is this, the book belongs to Mr. Rossi, it is one o'clock. Etc, etc. Although at the beginning of this lesson you learned all forms of "to be" (I am, you are, etc.), the sentences deal with "is" only.The course is not organized into topics and has no exercises, only a pretty useless quiz at the end of each chapter. The quiz consists of a few questions and the correct answers. All you need to do is match them correctly. All in all, the book will suit only people who love to memorize long lists of words and sentences. Too bad.
and that is the whole point of learning another language is memorization. Since we're so accustomed to speaking English and we learned the finer points of it so long ago in elementary school, we forgot that we had to memorize the parts of speech and learn different expressions. The same is true for learning another language.I can dig what the majority of folks here complain about the series not putting any of your new knowledge to practice - the second most important part of learning a language (if not tied for most important).The Living Language series is a starter course, designed to give beginners the basics of the language - the alphabet, foreign letters in that language's alphabet (the letters j, k, x, w, and y are not part of the Italian alphabet), cognates (similar words in Italian and English), everyday expressions, and so on.I wouldn't recommend the Living Language series as the be all and end all of language instruction. It is one of the cheapest programs on the bookshelf and the final product is a reflection of that.The best bet to learning a language is going to the local community college (if you have the money and the time) and taking a course there, although those are more inclined to be immersion courses (where the instructor's idea of learning a language is for you to hear it spoken and learn it as you go along) or you could go to your local Italian cultural society and see what they have to offer (Philadelphia, for instance, has the America-Italy Society which offers Italian language classes. The Sons of Italy, at least in these parts, do not offer such).Learning another language is not the same for everyone. What works for some may not work for others.
I bought Rosetta stone, but there is something about it that I don't like. Maybe it's simply not the way I learn best. This course is actually better for me. It's also a great compliment for other courses.
I got this set for my daughter because it had CDs instead of the cassette tapes,so she could listen to them in the car. However, the Italian must be followed along in thelesson book, as you listen, in order to find the meaning of what you are hearing, and shecouldn't do that while she was driving.The Italian narrators are fine as they speak very clearly, and the lessons cover mostof the basics. The dictionary is concise (purse-sized), but it has only translations ofthe words (Italian to English/English to Italian) not any phonetic pronunciations.Overall, a nice little set if you are seriously interested in sitting down and readingthe lessons as you listen.
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