Living Language Italian All the Way Manual: Learn at Home or on the Go

I have two years of college-level Italian and I spent a fair amount of time and energy on learning the language. Since then, I've made the trip to Italy at least once a year, staying for a month last spring. Because I live most of the time in the U.S., my Italian gets rusty-maybe 'rovinato' is more like it. So I have assembled a tune-up kit. It consists of a newspaper called Italia Oggi, published in Italian in the U.S. and a set of CD's. When I get on the plane, I take with me a Garzanti Dictionary and the Guidebook to Italian All the Way. It's an efficient reminder of what you used to know and if you are a grown-up learning you third or fourth language, it would be an excellent introduction. --Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and the novel bang BANG. ISBN 9781601640005

I've tried a number of Italian self-study courses over the last few years. This course is the best one I've ever seen. The material is very well structured. The dialogues are useful and the conversation patterns are in accordance with the actual everyday language norms. I've used many of the conversation patterns suggested in the course in Italy and it worked! The grammar section is excellent. It is not overloaded with the special lingistic terminology and, again, it is very well structured and kept reasonably short. One will find the audiomaterial also very helpful. I, personally, found the "on the go" cassette set to be extremely efficient. The material is carefully presented in the form suitable for listening while you drive without turning your attention from the road altogether. In short, the course is excellent and highly recommended.

I am a Foreign Language Teacher. For my Italian classes I have been using Italian All The Way for the past 4 years. The material is perfectly structured. My students are adult, highly educated people, and they all liked and like this textbook. For them the Chiave per gli esercizi is very valuable too. I enjoy teaching Italian with this book so much that I do not feel any more that I have to write my own textbook! Bravi! Dott.sa MMG

Most efficient, effective and fun Italian self-study course of half a dozen I've seen. No accordian music of the sort they only trot out for tourists, and no insipid "Now it's YOUR turn" cues that wear thin the fiftieth time. The grammar alone beats any specialized "grammar in a nutshell" book. Available on CD; insist on CD's if this is your preference