Italian All-in-One For Dummies
by Di Pietro, Antonietta; Onofri, Francesca Romana; Picarazzi, Teresa L.; Mö; ller, Karen Antje; Gobetti, Daniela; Bartolini-Salimbeni, BethEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-09-03
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary
Italian All-in-One For Dummies appeals to those readers looking for a comprehensive volume to help them master the Italian language. It will contain content from all For Dummies Italian language instruction titles, including Italian For Dummies, Intermediate Italian For Dummies, Italian Verbs For Dummies, Italian Phrases For Dummies, and Italian For Dummies Audio Set. Additionally, this book includes a new CD that allows for even more opportunities to practice speaking the language, as well as additional content to empower readers to speak and use Italian like a native.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book I: Speaking Italian in Everyday Settings 5
Chapter 1: Exploring Pronunciations and Italian You May Already Know 7
Chapter 2: Dealing with Numbers, Dates, and Time 21
Chapter 3: Buongiorno! Salutations! 41
Chapter 4: Making Small Talk 55
Chapter 5: Casa Dolce Casa: Home Sweet Home 67
Chapter 6: Using the Phone and Talking Business 81
Chapter 7: Food, Glorious Food, and Drink 97
Chapter 8: Shopping, Italian-Style 115
Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 133
Chapter 1: Where Is the Colosseum? Asking Directions 135
Chapter 2: Having Fun Out on the Town 147
Chapter 3: Exploring the Outdoors, Sports, and Hobbies 163
Chapter 4: Planning a Trip 179
Chapter 5: Money, Money, Money 189
Chapter 6: Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and Buses 199
Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 215
Chapter 8: Handling Emergencies 223
Book III: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials for Communication 239
Chapter 1: What Do You Know? Parts of Speech 241
Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number 253
Chapter 3: All about Pronouns 267
Chapter 4: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons 281
Chapter 5: Meeting the Challenge of Prepositions 297
Chapter 6: Demonstrative, Indefi nite, and Possessive Qualifiers 307
Chapter 7: Making Connections with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 323
Chapter 8: Asking and Answering Questions 335
Book IV: Mastering Italian Verbs and Tenses 345
Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Regular Verbs 347
Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs 361
Chapter 3: Using Refl exive Forms and the Imperative Mood 375
Chapter 4: Declaring Your Likes (And Dislikes) with Piacere 389
Chapter 5: The Future Tense and the Conditional Mood 403
Chapter 6: Getting into the Subjunctive Mood 415
Book V: Building Compound Tenses 433
Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Talking in the Past Tense 435
Chapter 2: Refl exive Verbs in the Past 451
Chapter 3: Second-Guessing Actions with the Past Conditional and Past Perfect 461
Chapter 4: I Hope That You’ve Had Fun! The Subjunctive Mood in the Past 469
Chapter 5: “If” Clauses, the Impersonal, and the Passive 477
Chapter 6: Progressing through Gerunds in Italian ...487
Book VI: Appendixes 493
Appendix A: Verb Tables 495
Appendix B: Italian-English Mini-Dictionary 529
Appendix C: English-Italian Mini-Dictionary 545
Appendix D: Fun & Games 561
Appendix E: Audio Tracks 615
Index 619
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