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Italian Verb Drills

One of the greatest challenges in learning a language is mastering verb conjugations. The books in the unique Language Verb Drill series make it easier than ever for learners to meet that challenge.

Drilling, whether it's for learning a musical instrument, a sport, or a language, is an essential part of a sound education because repeated, concentrated practice makes specialized skills become second nature.

Unlike most verb books, which tend to concentrate on tables of conjugations, the books in the Language Verb Drills series allow students to focus exclusively on building mastery of verbs without being distracted by other elements of grammar. Combining the features of a workbook and reference manual, they clearly and systematically explain how a verb system works while providing numerous drills for practice. These revised editions of the popular study guides now include a final review section to reinforce the reader's ability to automatically select the correct verb form.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 458.2421
EAN: 9780071420891
ISBN: 0071420894
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2003-11-30
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Essential Italian Grammar
• Italian Verb Workbook
• Italian Grammar Drills (Drills Series)
• Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian
• Easy Italian Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (Easy Reader Series)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Italian Verb Bootcamp!
Comment: This book has been a big help to me as it meshes well with my own particular learning style. Each section has a quick introduction to a particular tense, explains its use, and gives examples. Then it's drill, drill, drill.

No frills. Nothing fancy. It just delivers. It is simplistic and regimentally structured. I would not consider myself fluent by any means but I credit this book with giving me confidence to start to explore reading articles at reppublica.it (the web site for an Italian newspaper) and I've even corresponded with sellers and bought items off of eBay Italia! The sellers have been very complimentary of my Italian and appreciative of my efforts. (Of course, it takes me 10 times as long as normal to read and compose those emails but, hey, it's a start, right?)

Allow me to reiterate, I like this book because this style suits my own personal learning style. If you are one of those who do not gain as much from the drill/repetition/reinforcement style of learning (and there's nothing wrong with that - everybody is different) this may not be the best book for you.

Buona fortuna!


Customer Rating:
Summary: Great for a little self-taught italian!
Comment: I decided to teach myself italian, and after reading many amazon.com reviews I settled on this book (and two others) to help me. I think this is essential, because most of the general workbooks do not focus on such in depth verb conjugation, and that is so important when learning a new language. This actually made the workbook I got easier to do, because it gave such great explanations....it is very user friendly!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing book
Comment: Da questo libro e da tanti come quest'uno, ho imparato tanto dell'italiano.

Non avrei imparato così tanto senza l'informazione che è presentata in un modo molto molto semplice e leggibile.

Io lo comprerei di nuovo se avessi la chance! -.-

Ciao a tutti. Compratelo. Non lo rimpiangerete!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent way to learn and practice verbs
Comment: This workbook allows you to practice regular and irregular verbs in all tenses, which serves as an ideal way to improve my Italian!

Nice and easy way to practice that you will catch on to the conjugation quickly!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Drill Book
Comment: I purchased this book in anticipation of a trip to Italy 6 weeks after purchase. I spent a year in Italy studying Italian 20 years ago and haven't had much occassion to use my Italian since then. I thought the Italian Verb Drills book would be a great help in refreshing all that I have forgotten. I was right. I love the book. The verbs are categorized by ending and irregularities and then the book moves through various tenses. There is ample discussion of when various tenses should be used. Some of the tenses are more important than others to know and this drill books help you determine which tenses are critical.

I remember best by writing something down. This is a drill book, so there is ample opportunity to write answers and then check them in the back. Exercises include translating into Italian from English and translating into English from Italian.

Even though I have a firm foundation in Italian, I would highly recommend this book for any beginner. Drilling is a good way to memorize the verbs and their tenses. If you purchase a grammar book and vocabulary book to accompany the verb drills, you have a complete learning tool set.

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