Practice Makes Perfect Italian Problem Solver: With 80 Exercises (Practice Makes Perfect (McGraw-Hill)) (NTC FOREIGN LANGUAGE) - Softcover

Visconti, Alessandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071791264 ISBN 13: 9780071791267

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014

Synopsis

Tricky Italian concepts are no problem with practice, practice, practice

As you progress in your study of Italian, you may feel overwhelmed by unfamiliar areas, such as knowing when to use essere versus avere; determining the gender of a noun; avoiding "false friends"; or understanding the use of thesubjunctive in subordinate clauses. Author and teacher Alessandra Visconti is familiar with this situation and, more important, knows how her students--and now you--can overcome it. In Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Problem Solver, Visconti shares her arsenal of strategies onhow to overcome these obstacles to your Italian mastery.

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Problem Solver helps you understand topics that studentstypically find difficult. You will develop your skills and confidence as an Italian speaker with:

• Expert advice and guidance on overcoming common problems
• Practical examples with high-frequency vocabulary that clarify each point
• Highly varied and extensive exercises to practice what you've learned

About this title

About the Author

Alessandra Visconti (Chicago, IL) is a lecturer of Italian at Northwestern University. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she received an MA in Applied Linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071791264
• ISBN 13: 9780071791267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144