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| Make learning Italian fun: try an Easy Reader novel! |
Ciao Bambino! A Child’s Tour of Italy
by Danna Troncatty Leahy
The
author says, "There is a growing need for families to expose their children
to foreign languages and foreign cultures. Of course, many privileged families
can afford to travel to experience these new places first hand. Others may
simply want to expose them at an early age to inspire their exploration. Either
path, what better means to expose your children than through the gift of books.
From this idea, I was determined to write a book for preschoolers that exposed them to Italian language and cultural novelties, but was more than just another picture dictionary. It had to be fun and engage the preschooler with familiar things from home, while sharing novelties from another country. This month I launched what I hope to be the first in a series of Ciao Bambino books. Ciao Bambino! A Child's Tour of Italy is a picture book targeted for children 3-6 years old. Beautifully illustrated in original watercolor art, the 36-page book shares a tour of Italy through a child's scrapbook. Throughout the fictional story, the young boy and his teddy bear travel companion share their travel adventure, and teach twenty-five Italian words along the way."
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Beginner's Italian (Hippocrene Beginner's Series)
by Joseph F. Privitera
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Learn in Your Car Italian: The Complete Language Course: 3 Level Set: With Carrying Case (Learn in Your Car)
by Henry N. Raymond
Amazon Reader Review: "This is a great way to learn Italian! After the first CD, I knew lots of useful phrases. I went to Italy after working with all of the CD's, and felt very confident. Each CD builds on the previous one, making learning very easy. I would highly recommend this course, especially for anyone who spends a lot of time in their car."
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Easy Italian Phrase Book: 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase Books)
Amazon Reader Review: “As a teacher of Italian language and literature, I was quite impressed by this little book. The phrases, transliterated for those who do not know Italian pronunciation, are those you will use if you are traveling to Italy or teaching the language. There was a surprising amount of information in this book, which was well worth its low price. I suggest you purchase some other titles if you are traveling to Italy, as it does not contain an exhaustive listing of Italian conversational terms, but it makes a valuable contribution.”
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Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way w/4 CDs
by Marcel Danesi
The popular Fast and Fun Way language learning series, previously available as book-and-cassette programs and in paperback book-only versions, can now be purchased to teach Italian and three other languages as a combination book and audio CD package. This program, designed for both travelers and students, instructs in the basics of speaking, understanding, and reading and writing Italian. Suitable both for adults and older children, the program includes language games and puzzles, cartoon illustrations, vocabulary flash cards, and other features that help make language-learning fun. The four compact discs present dramatized bilingual conversations and introduce students of Italian to correct pronunciation and listening comprehension.
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Learn Italian Together: An Activity Kit for Kids and Grown-Ups, Ages 4-8 (Living Language)
by Marie-Claire Antoine
What a great way to learn Italian when you and your children are on the road! Developed by the experts at Living Language®, this book and cassette program includes 16 easy, fun, and effective language games centered around things you typically see while driving. Engaging songs, rhymes, and activities teach basic Italian words and phrases effortlessly. No previous knowledge of Italian is required.
Each kit includes:
Activity book with 16 games and activities
60-minute cassette with words, phrases, songs, rhymes, and more!
240 play & learn stickers
Teacher's Guide with suggested classroom activities
30 Foreign Language Achievement Certificates
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Let's Learn Italian Coloring Book
by Anne-Francoise Hazzan, Minerva Figueroa
Amazon Reader Review: "I bought one for my 5 year old niece and she loved it. Kids can have fun AND learn another language. You can't go wrong with coloring books! I plan to buy more!"
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Instant Immersion Italian (5 CD-Rom Set)
Instant Immersion Italian delivers an authentic Italian learning environment to your desktop. Based on the Euromethod--an approach that immerses students in a country's language and culture--this language-learning suite includes five CD-ROM titles: Talk Now!, World Talk, Talk to Me, Interactive Picture Dictionary, and Who Is Oscar Lake? Native Italian speakers introduce words and phrases. Lessons can be customized. Explore more than 2,000 words in French, Spanish, German, and Italian with the interactive picture dictionary's video clips and other memory enhancing tools. Advanced speech recognition technology--the next best thing to a conversation partner--actually lets you converse with the software and even corrects words and phrases. Instant Immersion's "Who Is Oscar Lake?" title rounds out this comprehensive suite. In the ultimate test of your new skills, you'll have to solve a puzzling mystery... in Italian. With Instant Immersion, you learn by hearing, seeing, and doing.
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An advanced DVD for conversational level language learning, Advanced Italian combines the power of the movies and DVD-ROM technology to bring you exciting language learning that really works! Watch full-screen video, and play games and exercises that make you remember what you've seen and learned.
This language learning package aims to help you understand and speak Italian. By hearing and practicing authentic everyday speech, your natural ability for language will develop. Four-year-olds in their own country can't read, write or understand grammar, yet they can communicate very effectively. When you go to a new country, you should be able to use the language without thinking about the grammar at all.
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Dictionary of Italian Slang and Colloquial Expressions
by Daniela Gobetti
Valuable for both students and travelers alike, this text lists approximately 4,500 common slang words and colloquial expressions in Italian. Entries include information on the region where the word is commonly used, its definition in English, a sentence or phrase in the target language to illustrate usage, an English translation of the example, and where applicable, a corresponding English slang expression. Entries also identify the word or phrase by type: student or youth slang, sports slang, entertainment slang, professional or computer jargon, and criminal slang.
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
by Rick Steves
From ATM lingo to train station announcements, this book is packed with useful phrases. Also included are advice on gesturing, telephone tips, and even a handy menu decoder. Features easy-to-read phonetic spellings of common expressions.
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Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian
by Catherine E. Love (Editor)
Compiled
in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster's New World concise
bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced
speakers as well. Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the
dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage
of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries
will continue to be standard references for years to come -- especially now
that they are available in unabridged paperback editions.
- More than 100,000 words, giving wide-ranging coverage of current terms and expressions
- Detailed definitions so the user can understand and translate idiomatically
- Extensive examples of usage, showing how translations of words can vary according to context
- Verb tables, including irregular verbs
- Cross-references from every verb to the appropriate verb table
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I Verbi Italiani and Their English Equivalents
by Leonard G. Sbrocchi
In this text the Italian verbs are presented side by side with their French and English counterparts. The volume consists of an Introductory Note; Auxiliary Verbs; Regular Verbs (all conjugations, variants included); Irregular Verbs of the first, second, and third conjugations; Servile, Impersonal; Defective, Superabundant Verbs; an Index indicating whether the Verb is transitive, intransitive, the auxiliary it requires, the preposition is requires before an Infinitive, as well as the page on which it is treated.
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Sicilian-English/English-Sicilian Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene
Dictionary and Phrasebook)
by Joseph F. Privitera
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Introduction to Sicilian Grammar 
By Kirk Bonner
Edited by Gaetano Cipolla
This
new book takes a fresh approach to the Sicilian language and the best way to
speak it, pronounce it, and spell it. Sicilian is not a slightly different
version of Italian as is widely held. It is a language as old as Italian; it
has its own unique history, grammar, vocabulary, and structure. Sicilian, as
a Language, has a separate history, and it evolved in parallel with Standard
Italian. Both experienced different influences. For example, Sicilian has many
words drawn from Greek and Arabic, and certain points of its grammar are more
similar to Spanish than to Italian. To sum up, Sicilian is a distinct language
from Standard Italian.
Between 1880 and about 1930, many people arrived in the United States who came from Italy. Most of these immigrants came from Sicily and Southern Italy. Very few of them spoke Standard Italian, which at that time was spoken by only a small number of Italians. Italians from Sicily and Southern Italy spoke their own languages, and the Sicilians who came to the United States spoke Sicilian. This book concentrates on Sicilian as a living language and is designed to appeal to those whose forebears came from Sicily. It is also designed to appeal to people interested in the Romance languages, and in particular the Romance languages of Italy.
Dr. Kirk Bonner has an avid interest in languages, cultural history, and the customs of various peoples. Ever since he studied Italian, he had a desire to learn the Sicilian language, and he set out to accomplish this goal. His natural interest in the language led him to discover that a really good introduction covering the principles of Sicilian did not exist for English speakers, and he set out to rectify this situation by researching and writing this book. Kirk holds a PH.D. in the History of Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He conducted original historical research on the crucial work in atomic theory of the Italian scientist, Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), and the Sicilian scientist, Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826-1910). Kirk presently lives and works in Southern California.
Trade Paperback: 225 pages
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A Sicilian Shakespeare: A Bilingual Edition of All His Sonnets
by William Shakespeare, Renzo Porcelli (Translator)
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The Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy
Edited by Luigi Bonaffini, 500 pages.
Professor
Bonaffini has edited an anthology of the most significant and characteristic
poetry produced in Southern Italy and on the Islands. The dialect selections
from Latium, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Lucania, Calabria, Sicilia and Sardinia
are translated into English and into Italian by dialect specialists. In addition,
each region and poet are prefaced by critical notes highlighting trends and
movements within the wide horizon of dialect poetry. This book shows readers
a new world of poetry, often and wrongly ignored by main-stream criticism.
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Malidittu la linga/Damned Language/With 2 Audio Cassettes
by Vincenzo Ancona, edited by Anna L. Chairetakis and Joseph Sciorra, translated by Gaetano Cipolla
Vicenzo Ancona is a poet who has been endowed by nature with certain gifts that facilitate his task in this world: a quick wit, an extraordinarily developed memory (Ancona can recite for hours without ever referring to a written text), and an acute sensitivity to the world around him. This 212-page bilingual volume in Sicilian and English includes two tapes of 60 minutes each of Mr. Ancona reciting his poetry in Sicilian. Paperback.
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A Lupa (Opera libretto… in Sicilian)
by Gaetano Cipolla
Trade Paperback, 40 pages.
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Cantalèsia
Poems in the Neapolitan Dialect
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Dialect Poetry of Northern & Central Italy: Texts and Criticism
(A Trilingual Anthology (Italian Poetry in Translation)
by Luigi Bonaffini (Editor), Achille Serrao (Editor)
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Via Terra: An Anthology of Italian Neodialect Poetry (Italian Poetry in
Translation, V. 6)
by Achille Serrao (Editor), Luigi Bonaffini (Editor), Justin Vitiello
(Editor)
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