50 Ways to Improve your Italian: Teach Yourself
Teach Yourself
978-1-4441-1066-1 (ISBN)
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Do you have a working knowledge of Italian, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Italian is presented and analyzed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong. The tips are grouped into grammar, spelling, false friends, pronunciation and cultural faux pas sections.
Polish your Italian with this brand new series from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. 50 ways to improve your Italian touches all essential bases and is divided into easily digestible sections.
Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design and interactive features:
Insights
Instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on Valeria Malandra's many years of experience.
Summaries
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.
Grammar
Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.
Pronunciation
Don't sound like a tourist - polish your pronunciation before you go.
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Valeria Malandra is a native speaker with extensive experience of teaching, translating and interpreting Italian. She is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey.
: Meet the author
: Only got a minute?
: Only got 5 minutes?
: Only got 10 minutes?
: How to use this book
: Sounding right: pronunciation and spelling
1: Good stress and bad stress
2: Soft and hard sounds
3: Say it like you write it
4: Euro, spaghetti bolognese and più, può, poi
5: Accent deficit disorder
6: Monday, January, English: NO CAPITALS PLEASE!
7: Drop the dead vowel
8: Word liposuction
9: Learn to count
: Getting the structure right
: Adverbs
10: Strategic positioning of the adverb
11: Use and abuse of anche
12: Was the meal well, good or beautiful?
: Comparatives and superlatives
13: Compare and contrast
14: Don’t go over the top!
: Prepositions
15: Learn to do without di
16: Is it ‘on’ Monday?
: Pronouns
17: Keep your subjects under control
18: Don’t be direct with your indirect pronouns
19: Quel or quello? Demonstrate your point!
20: Che: the big forgotten one
: Articles
21: The definite article: one in English, six in Italian
: Number and gender
22: The rules of plurality
23: Some people are singular
24: The gender of the problem
: Possessives
25: Mio marito, that’s all you need
: Adjectives
26: Orders must be followed!
: Agreement
27: Italian is an agreeable language
28: Many, few and near: do they agree?
29: Verbal agreements
: Verbs
30: Essere o avere? That is the question
31: Perfect vs imperfect
32: Live in the present, look to the future
33: Reflect on reflexives
34: Piacere: put it back to front
: Choosing the right words
35: Careful with what you enjoy!
36: Prendere: don’t take it for granted
: False friends
37: Going shopping at night
38: Don’t fail to say how to succeed!
39: ‘In-pressive’ mistakes
40: Eventually, earlier and possibly – plus some information and advice
41: How do you ‘stay’?
42: Do you visit your friends or examine them?
43: Travel and drive, but don't get too excited!
: Cultural awareness
44: Please – to be used sparingly please
45: Have you got a title?
: Miscellaneous
46: Don’t mix c’è with è
47: Do you ‘prefer’ or do you ‘favour’?
48: Time is of the essence
49: Sei single?
50: Work, age, and finally …!
: Glossary of grammatical terms
: Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 153 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4441-1066-7 / 1444110667 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4441-1066-1 / 9781444110661 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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