Newly published book that tries to explain the complexitis of using prounouns and prepositions in Italian.

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Product Description

Master these two essential building blocks of fluency in Italian quickly and painlessly

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions provides you with clear, detailed explanations and all the practice tools needed to master these two knotty elements of Italian grammar. Using many realistic examples taken from everyday life, author Daniela Gobetti takes the mystery out of Italian pronouns and prepositions and gives you plenty of exercises to reinforce what you have learned.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90595 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071453936
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover

Master Italian pronouns and prepositions quickly and easily

The only way to build your skills in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. Following the successful Practice Makes Perfect approach, this book gives you clear explanations and all the tools you need to learn Italian pronouns and prepositions. A valuable resource for beginning- to intermediate-level Italian learners, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions enables you to:

• Successfully grasp Italian pronoun and preposition usage
• Review and compare different types of pronouns and prepositions using easy-to-read tables
• Build your language skills with more than 100 exercises and an answer key

With the help of many everyday examples, this book takes the mystery out of pronouns and prepositions and gets you on your way to communicating in Italian with confidence!

Topics covered include:

• Pronouns as subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects
• Pronouns in prepositional phrases
• Double, reflexive, and relative pronouns
• Interrogative, demonstrative, possessive, and indefinite pronouns
• Prepositions that indicate location, movement, direction, or time
• Prepositions and phrasal verbs

About the Author

Daniela Gobetti teaches Italian at the University of Michigan and is the author of Better Reading Italian.

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Customer Reviews

Difficult to Finish
The subject matter is tedious to begin with so you can't fault the writer for that. I found this book very difficult to get through and I am not sure why. I felt that many of the grammatical and usage explanations were incomplete. I think there are numerous errors and inconsistencies in the answer key. I found the chronic use of the progressive tense annoying and more frequent than contemporary Italian usage. This book has excellent word lists and great appendices. When I finally finished, I pulled those pages out of the book, punched holes in them and added them to my Italian grammar notebook. If you actually write the exercises in the book, it will be a mess when you're done. If you plan on reusing this one, do the exercises on a separate piece of paper. You may need a dictionary to complete the exercises.

Great workbook but some inaccuracies
I have been studying Italian for several weeks and this workbook has been very helpful in clarifying correct pronoun usage. I find it to have just the right level of explanation with well designed exercises. The biggest problem is that there are a few inaccuracies, mostly in the answer key. These errors could cause a complete novice a lot of confusion, although they are fairly obvious (meaning they cause just a little initial confusion) if you have grasped the lesson that the exercises are attached to. As stated by a previous reviewer, you will need a dictionary to get through some of the exercises. You will also need a basic understanding of verb forms.

Excellent Practice
This workbook finally allows me to practice those frustating pronouns and prepositions in an organized fashion. Though drilling is not usually the best way to learn a language, this book helps alot with remembering the idiosyncrasies (for English speakers) of the Italian pronomi and preposizioni. I am also picking up new vocabulary along the way.