In recent years, student enrollment in Italian courses seems to have gradually increased. Why study Italian?, you may ask yourself. Well, there are several reasons, depending on your interests.- Italy is one of the top five economies in the world. An estimated 7,500 American companies do business with Italy and many have offices there.
- Knowing Italian is greatly beneficial in career fields like culinary arts, interior design, fashion, graphic design, furniture design, machine tool manufacturing, robotics, electromechanical machinery, shipbuilding, space engineering, construction machinery, and transportation equipment.
- Italy's cultural influence spans from antiquity through the present.
- Italian literature boasts some of the world's most famous writers and thinkers, from Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli, to Verga, Pirandello, Ungaretti, and Gadda, to name a few. Knowing Italian allows you to understand, appreciate, and analyze this treasury of human expression.
Italiano essenziale offers a comprehensive review and thorough understanding of the elements of the Italian language. Each level constitutes a complete core course.
Here are some of the salient features of Italiano essenziale 1-3:
- Books' organization allows teachers to follow any sequence suitable to the needs of students and the objectives of the course.
- Chapters are organized around related grammatical topics.
- Concise and clear explanations of grammar are followed by examples.
- Exercises are set in functional realistic contexts to provide meaningful practice.
- Many of the exercises are personalized to stimulate original student response and meaningful assimilation of concepts.
- Open-ended exercises provide students with the opportunity to express their personal opinions in Italian, within the scope of the concept under study.
- Italian-English Vocabulary is included.
- Appendixes contain model verb tables and rules of Italian punctuation, syllabication, and pronunciation.
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