Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate (CD/Book) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate)

Ultimate Italian has everything you need to learn Italian from scratch or to revive the Italian that you learned years ago. This course combines conversation and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. It's the perfect way to learn Italian for school, travel, work, or personal enrichment. Ultimate Italian Beginner-Intermediate includes:·40 lessons in a comprehensive 416-page textbook:Each lesson contains a lively and authentic dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and usage, step-by-step character writing, cultural highlights, and plenty of practice. The first ten lessons also include special pronunciation sections that will have you speaking right from the beginning. The book also contains review sections, readings, supplemental vocabulary sections, appendixes on essential Italian grammar, and a Italian-English/English-Italian glossary.·8 hours of recordings with an ingenious two-step approach:Learn at home: Listen to the first set of recordings as you follow along in your textbook. Immerse yourself in Italian while you listen and repeat with the all-Italian recordings, and learn conversation, grammar, vocabulary, and moreLearn on the go: Then practice, review, and expand upon what you’ve learned with the second set of recordings. An instructor will guide you through each lesson, and since no reading is required, you can listen in the car, on the train, at the gym...anywhere!