The First Thousand Words in Italian

Increase your Italian vocabulary with this picture book. The book will be most useful to adults and high school students who want to learn Italian nouns, even though it is a children's book. Each double-page illustration shows words related to a topic such as La cucina, Il laboratorio, and La campagna. Drawings of features such as a bridge, an owl, and a river are shown with the noun identified only in Italian. A word list at the end of the book shows each word, its pronunciation, and its translation. An internet link allows access to a program which has a person pronounce each word. The book's drawings also illustrate about four dozen verbs and four dozen adjectives. The book would be suitable for a parent to use with a child who is interested in Italian. Usborne publishes several other similar books. All allow an easy path to adding to descriptive Italian vocabulary.

I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find, no less receive The First Thousand Words in Italian by Christmas, but there it was! I ordered and received my copy in plenty of time to wrap it, hide it and torment my little seven-year old friend to whom I'll present this book, with twenty questions to guess the gift. She'll never guess it and I know that she'll love it when I finally give it to her at Christmas. Thank you!

This is a great book, great pictures, great for object recognition. The only drawback is that the pronunciation guide is at the back of the book. So for each word you have to look through the list of words till you find the word and it's pronunciation. It would have been better if they had done it like they did in, I believe the Russian book, where they put the pronunciation under the word.

Do you want to learn Italian? If you want to begin to master this beautiful language, then I suggest that you acquire this fun approach. This book is for kids, but anyone who is studying a new language needs graphics to see what the words are. This book is a perfect way to visualize Italian nouns ( persons, places, or things) in the home (kitchen,bathroom, bedroom living room stairs, etc.) in the yard, in the workshop and garage, on the street ( anything you can think of), in the toy store (OH, no!), in the park, at the zoo, at the airport, in the country, on the farm, at the ocean, in school ( a scuola) in the hospital ( il gesso e le grucce ), at a party (la festa), in the grocery store ( il negozio ), food to put on the table, parts of the body, clothes, occupations, family members (zio ?) then action words, opposites, story characters, pet favorites, weather ( il tempo ), seasons (le stagioni), sports ( il calcio), colors (verde e bianco), shapes and numbers, the circus, and an amusement park. This book also teaches the masculilne, feminine, plural, and singular form of nouns, aids pronunciation, and has a large list of other useful words. In addition, the picture words are indexed in the back of the book with a pronunciation guide for each book. A must for your Italian language library!

This book is bright and cheerful. It is loaded with pictures to capture the attention of the young person interested in Italian language. It's a fun book for the entire family. Full of photographs labeled in Italian and with a glossary that gives the English word, Italian word AND Italian pronunciation. For a children's book we were impressed with the details and tips on pronunciation. Our friend who speaks fluent Italian was so impressed, she purchased it for her American-born children.