Author(s): Gabrielle Euvino

Travel

Enjoy getting to know la bella lingua!

If you've dreamed of one day becoming fluent in Italian and traveling to 'the boot' for business or pleasure, you've come to the right place.

The next best thing to a personal tutor, this helpful guide shows you how easily you can learn key Italian grammar concepts, enhance your vocabulary, fine-tune your verb-conjugation skills, master pronunciation, and so much more. In it, you get:

• A primer on basic Italian vocabulary, starting with your ABCs and 123s.


• Easy lessons for understanding pronunciation, stressing syllables, and rolling your Rs.


• Fun tutorials about nouns, articles, and gender, plus hints for using adjectives and adverbs to describe things.


• Tips for using regular and irregular verbs, modal verbs, and reflective verbs to ask questions and make suggestions.


• Simple suggestions for identifying and using object pronouns related to food, sports, shopping, and more.


• Advice on talking about exciting adventures and activities in the past, present, and future tenses.


• Entertaining exercises throughout to test what you've learned.