The
e-book Italiano per Principianti
(Italian for Beginners)
takes you from zero to conversational Italian in clear,
well explained steps.
If you’ve never tried to learn
Italian before, this package is all you’ll need
to get you speaking accurate Italian confidently.
If you have tried to learn Italian before
and failed, the bonus e-book How
to Learn Italian will explain why you didn’t
achieve your goal last time and show you how you WILL
ACHIEVE it this time.
Italian for Beginners
is a very accessible introduction to the language
which takes the guesswork – and thus the fear
– out of speaking Italian. It’s a practical,
hands-on approach that tells you what you need to
know but then gets you practising it straight away.
The Italian
Pronunciation Guide teaches you the few simple
rules of Italian pronunciation/spelling. You can then
test yourself by reading aloud 33 Italian words -
chosen to illustrate and reinforce the points you’ve
learnt – and comparing your pronunciation with
that of a native Italian.
Audio
is also included in the Italian
for Beginners e-book and,
just to make sure you’ve got lots of accurate
Italian to listen to, we’ve added some extra
recordings for you as a
bonus.
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Italian now!
Who am I?
My
name is Georgina Kirk and years ago I learnt Italian
from scratch, just like you. I have no Italian relations
and I had no Italian friends when I first started
(though now I have many, both in Manchester, where
I live, and in Italy). I was inspired to learn Italian
after my mother took my sister and me to Italy on
holiday. I was 13 and had never been to such a beautiful
and exciting place; I fell in love with it immediately
and insisted we go back every year, until I was old
enough to go by myself.
Italian was patchily taught at
my school and it took me a while to get properly to
grips with the language. I’m so glad I persevered!
I learnt what I could from the lessons and supplemented
it with teach-yourself books, none of which was great
but the combination got me by. I went on to study
Italian language and culture at university, to live
in Milan for two years and subsequently to open my
own language school in Manchester.
I
wrote Italiano
per Principianti to
give you what I wish I’d had when I was a beginner:
clear, concise explanations and a slow, steady build-up.
I’ve been teaching languages
for over 15 years and this e-book developed out of
the many grammatical explanations and worksheets I’ve
given to my students of Italian over this decade and
a half plus. Everybody learns differently, of course,
but this is the distilled product of many attempts
to put the language and its workings across to people
of various ages, backgrounds and levels of linguistic
aptitude.
My colleague Daniela Spini provided
valuable input from the perspective of a native Italian.
What's so great about this course?
As I say, I've been a language teacher
for over 15 years and I've tried out every kind of
course material, from teach-yourself to classroom-use,
and I haven't found one that really meets the needs
of adult students of Italian.
The problem is usually that they structure
the course by subject area rather than by grammatical
point, so they introduce concepts that are far too
difficult far too soon. For example, it makes sense,
in a way, to begin with a chapter about meeting people.
We learn that to ask 'what's your name?', we say 'come
si chiama?'. Fine, OK, I can remember that but, unless
you can explain which word means what and how it works,
I'll always be having to memorise phrases without
really understanding them and I might as well just
use a phrase book.
The few books I've found that are organised
by area of grammar may provide a handy reference for
teachers but render themselves almost completely useless
to the student by using vocabulary and structures
that are way beyond the scope of someone studying
that level of grammar. I've seen past tenses, conditionals
and even subjunctives used in exercises designed to
help people learn the present tense. This is just
ridiculous.
I sometimes wonder whether the people
writing these courses have ever actually studied a
foreign language themselves or tried teaching live
students, using their materials.
As well as being a very experienced
teacher, I have studied Italian, French, German, Spanish,
Russian, Greek and Portuguese.
My e-book, Italian
for Beginners, introduces grammatical concepts
in a logical order. The exercises involve ONLY language
you've already learnt, so you understand everything,
completely, as you go along and you NEVER just have
to remember something without knowing exactly what
it means and how it works. If you understand WHY something
is as it is, you can remember it so much more easily.
Italian for Beginners
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Written by professional teachers
of Italian |
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Includes audio, to help your
pronunciation and understanding of Italian |
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Unlike some free courses
available online or with newspapers, this is
a serious course teaching you, accurately, what
you need to know |
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Clear and accessible introduction
to the Italian language |
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Good balance between speed
and accuracy - explains how everything works
but doesn't overload you with detail |
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Takes you from literally
zero to conversational, in your own time |
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Smooth progression from how
to say hello to how to have long and interesting
conversations (rather than disjointed lessons) |
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Much more than just shopping
and sightseeing language - learn the structures
you need to have proper conversations |
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Includes vocabulary, expressions
and colloquial turns of phrase as well as grammar |
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With this e-book and a dictionary,
you can reach intermediate-level Italian - no
need for a phrase book, verb tables or any other
course book |
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Contains plenty of exercises
(with the answers at the end) so you can practise
and check you are understanding as you go along |
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100
pages, plus Answer key |
Click
to view the list of contents
Listen as you go
Professional voice-over artist Amedea
De Cataldis recorded the audio for this Accurate Italian
package. She has good, clear, native-Italian pronunciation
for you to copy with confidence.
Many of the words introduced at the
beginning of the course are recorded for you, so you
can check your pronunciation as you go along. Later
in the course, there are three longer recordings that
tell little stories. By the time you get to these,
you’ll not only be able to understand them completely
but you’ll be at the stage where you could have
written the stories yourself in Italian.
The audio is embedded in the e-books,
which means the package is all super-easy to use.
You also receive the audio files separately, so you
can copy them on to a CD or into your MP3 player.
The bonuses to this package (see
below) include an Italian
Pronunciation Guide
(both written and audio) and three audio recordings
additional to those in Italian
for Beginners.
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Italian now!
Whenever
I’ve been on holiday to Italy I’ve
always been too embarrassed to try speaking
the language. I didn’t know enough words,
couldn’t form a sentence and my accent
was terrible. Accurate
Italian has changed
all that. I’ve gone from nothing to being
able to hold a conversation in Italian. A truly
satisfying process, and much easier than expected.
I can’t recommend it enough!
Henry Dummett
London
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Grammar gives you independence
People often ask me if it’s possible
to learn Italian without studying grammar and I explain
that, contrary to what you may have felt at school,
grammar is your friend,
not your enemy, and works as a roadmap to the language.
The reason phrase books are frustrating
is that, because they don’t explain anything,
you remain completely dependent on them.
If you don’t learn the grammar,
you have to learn parrot-fashion every single sentence
you might possibly want to say and the predicted answers
to each one. Imagine what hard work that would be!!
Well, of course, it’s impossible. OK, you can
read out – or even point to – an approximation
of what you want to say in the phrase book…
but how much fun is that? It’s not always effective
either, because you need to understand the answer
as well.
However, if you do learn the grammar,
you know how the language fits together. You can then
work out for yourself how to construct a sentence
and understand what the other person says back. This
liberates you from the tyranny of the phrase book
to interact naturally with Italians.
Say what you mean!
There are a lot of traps for the unwary
foreigner trying to speak Italian without having studied
the language properly.
Bonus 2
Italian Pronunciation
Guide

Learn to pronounce Italian authentically with this
comprehensive guide. Italian is a phonetic language
and, unlike in English, what you see is what you say.
Once you’ve learnt the simple rules of spelling/pronunciation,
you’ll be able to read, write and pronounce
correctly any Italian word.
The guide gives you both written
explanation and audio examples. Avoid embarrassing
gaffes by making sure you’re pronouncing the
words properly and saying what you intend to say!
Bonus 3
Extra Italian audio recordings

These three specially-written pieces will test your
comprehension, improve your use of grammar and get
you used to the sounds and structures of the Italian
language.
The accompanying booklet contains
a transcript and an English translation of each recording.
The stories contain everyday language – grammar
you will have learnt from Italian
for Beginners and vocabulary
you will want to use yourself.
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What I’m offering you here
is not the flimsy contents of many Learn Italian Instantly
packages but solid, reliable stuff you’ll really
be able to use. My colleagues and I have invested
serious time (nine or ten months, in my case) in compiling
these materials and, if your dream is to speak Italian,
this package is designed to change your life.
All we’re asking in return
is $79 USD!
I think you’ll agree this is an
absolute bargain. It's less
than you would pay for a single one-to-one lesson
at a language school.
However, I’m not a businesswoman,
I’m a teacher and, if you want to learn Italian,
I want to teach you. Take advantage of this great
offer, download Accurate
Italian instantly and start
learning Italian in about five minutes’ time!
100% Money-Back Guarantee
If
Italian for Beginners
and the accompanying bonuses
don’t help you to learn Italian accurately and
confidently, we’ll give you your money back.
Give it a try for 90 days
and if, after that, you feel this package is not for
you, just send us back the main e-book within 30 days
and we’ll give you a full
refund. The audio,
the Pronunciation Guide
and How to Learn Italian
are yours to keep anyway. There will be no hard feelings.
We want you to be delighted with your products and
to learn to speak Italian.
You’ve got nothing
to lose by buying Accurate
Italian and tons of satisfaction and fun to
gain – imagine yourself, three months from now,
chatting away in Italian!
Try out Italian
for Beginners with absolutely
no risk. If it doesn’t work for you,
send it back for a full refund. The audio
downloads, the Italian Pronunciation
Guide and How to Learn
Italian are free gifts
to you just for trying out our e-book.
We’re so confident that
you’ll learn a lot from Italian
for Beginners that we’re
happy to take all the risk. If it’s not working
for you after you’ve given it a fair try, return
it any time in the fourth month and we’ll give
you your money back. Actually, we expect that in 90
days’ time, you will have finished or nearly
finished working your way through the book and be
able to hold a meaningful conversation in Italian.
We run a language school with
a good reputation and we’re not in the business
of ripping people off. Learn, or return it.
What are you waiting for? The Italian
language is a treasure for life.
Here’s to your success and fulfilment!
Buon divertimento

PS Remember, you’ve got nothing
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If you wish you spoke Italian, buy this package, immerse
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