Italian Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners with Textbook and Workbook

Patti M.: I found the lessons to be too vague and fast for my learning style. The audio downloads were ok for pronunciation purposes, but it was hard to keep up with if you wanted to read the paired English words along with it. The workbook lessons at the end of the chapter were too difficult so it didn’t help consolidate my knowledge from the chapter, and was discouraging, which is the opposite feeling of what you want when learning a new language! I was disappointed with this learning tool.

United States on Jan 10, 2023

Sue Connizzo: Easy to use book with audio download it makes it easier to learn

United States on Oct 04, 2022

Johans Herrera: Good Afternoon:

I have enjoyed the Italian Grammar for Beginners Textbook. I tried to attend or take Italian a while ago to diversify my language repertoire but never had opportunity to understand in a better and efficient way Italian grammar. This book offered explicit examples and ways to easily learn new phrases, words and perfect pronunciation. Considering that English and Italian have different tense forms and most of the time you can’t make an exact correlation between these two languages. The grammar of this book shows you how to distinguish , in example present perfect and the simple past and many students find it hard to understand it when to use it.

I loved the idea of exercises and the end of each lesson, to help you remember and reinforce verbs, sentences and correct way to use words and vocabulary.

I liked this book, phrases and sentences are easy to learn. Also layout was really good to separate the reading and listening sessions.

United States on Aug 11, 2022

WallanWallan: The book is clearly laid out and works through Italian grammar with lots of examples. Some of them are quite complex at an early stage of learning. For example, (Potere) aiutarci ad apparecchiare la tavola? is in Lesson 5. Although you only have to conjugate the verb, I doubt if it is a sentence I am likely to come across unless I have not paid my hotel bill!
The biggest drawback is their failure to maintain the weblink with the audio files. They form a key part of the book and of learning the language. Without it this is just an expensive grammar book.
There are better tools available.

United Kingdom on Apr 25, 2022

Amazon Customer: Amazon description of product promised access to web based audio files. Link provided was inactive and email to tech support was unanswered

Canada on Mar 11, 2022

shfy70: Grazie mille

United States on Jan 19, 2022

Michael Brajczewski: I bought the book to expand my Italian and my conversational Italian has grown through learning nouns, verbs, pronouns, and other parts of speech that make formulating sentences fun the more I read the book.

United States on Sep 24, 2021