Product Description

Focusing on the essentials, Soluzioni! is an accessible grammar guide for all beginners of Italian. This comprehensive handbook provides Italian grammar-at-a-glance, using numerous tables to help facilitate learning and reviewing. Complemented by an appealing visual layout, Soluzioni! uses real language examples to help expand students' vocabulary knowledge, while plenty of varied and imaginative exercises show how the grammar works in practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28691 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 330 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780071413398
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excelllent for intermediate and advanced students
This is an exceptionally well-written grammar for those who have
studied Italian, but need clarification on its finer points, which most other grammars nerver get to. The explanations are easy to understand and the illlustrating examples, clear and precise. The accompanying exercises go a long way in making sure
the student understands how to use the grammar point in question.
I only wish there were more exercises or a separate work book.
Highly recommended.

Bravissimo!
This is hands-down the best grammar I've found for the Italian language, and is better than nearly all the other grammars I've used for other languages. Geared mostly for intermediate and advanced learners (although beginners can profit from it as well), the book provides great explanations of the subtleties and intricacies of the language.

By way of illustration, say a sentence in the novel you're reading has an obvious reference to the past, but you're not quite sure what shading of it the author's trying to communicate. This book tells you that "allora," "a quell'epocha," and "a quel tempo" refer to the distant past, "in quei giorni" refers to the distant past in relation to a particular event, "negli ultimi giorni (or tempi)" refer to the recent past, and "nei giorni scorsi" to the very recent past.

The book is full of examples like this that allow you to understand the nuances you might come across, in addition to more basic grammar. If you only buy one Italian grammar, get this one!

Most complete, clearly arranged, easy to use review of Italian
Soluzioni is the most compact, logically arranged, and therefore most easy to use of review books for Italian grammar; esp. helpful for idiomatic expressions. However, the reader must already be quite familiar with the Italian language to take full advantage of the volume. Now if they would just get rid of that tacky exclamation point in the title.