9781264807345
For intermediate language learners and those wanting to brush up on their conversational skills, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation provides a unique and effective method for learning to speak the language fluently and spontaneously. Helping readers get a handle on sentence building right away, it offers extensive exercises to practice what they've learned through engaging dialogues and numerous real-life examples.
Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Third Edition is organized around 11 units that present specific conversational functions, from Striking Up a Conversation to Giving Opinions, each exemplified with short dialogues that are also available as audio recordings via app. The units provide the opportunity not simply to converse, but to build and support correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax and word usage.
•Proven approach to learning helps learners get a handle on Italian conversation right away, and build on their learnings as they go
•Supported by audio recordings, via app, of all 60 dialogues, plus numerous exercise answers
•850 exercise questions help readers practice what they've learned through dialogues and practical examples
•A special conversational "markers" table in the index shows important elements of conversation that have no exact equivalents in English
•NEW: Includes a timely chapter on remote communication (video conferencing)