Author: John Colaneri, Vincent Luciani
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Genre: Reference
Release: Feb 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Here is a fine quick-reference source for language students, teachers, and translators. The 501 most commonly used Italian verbs are listed in table form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all tenses, identified by English infinitive forms. Verbs are both regular and irregular, and are presented alphabetically for easy reference. Added material related to verbs and verb usage is also presented, including lists of hundreds more regular verbs, idiomatic verb usage, and more.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Genre: Reference
Release: Feb 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Here is a fine quick-reference source for language students, teachers, and translators. The 501 most commonly used Italian verbs are listed in table form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all tenses, identified by English infinitive forms. Verbs are both regular and irregular, and are presented alphabetically for easy reference. Added material related to verbs and verb usage is also presented, including lists of hundreds more regular verbs, idiomatic verb usage, and more.
Author: Oxford Editorial Staff
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Genre: Reference
Release: Aug 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Of the several large Italian-English dictionaries I own (some purchased in Italy), this one most often has what I am looking for. It is particularly rich in sense indicators, but just seems to have more of the common words and expressions I look up to find. There are more comprehensive dictionaries, such as those from Garzanti and Zanichelli, but this is my first stop if a handier paperback fails me. Beware, however, there are many lumping errors in the codes for the verb tables in the back of the book (where the conjugation of the verb in question is almost-but-not-quite like the model).
My next dictionary (if the Paravia comes up short) is the new bilingual dictionary published by Hoepli in Italy. It's a modern design with lots of grammar help usually found only in monolingual dictionaries written for Italians.
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Genre: Reference
Release: Aug 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Of the several large Italian-English dictionaries I own (some purchased in Italy), this one most often has what I am looking for. It is particularly rich in sense indicators, but just seems to have more of the common words and expressions I look up to find. There are more comprehensive dictionaries, such as those from Garzanti and Zanichelli, but this is my first stop if a handier paperback fails me. Beware, however, there are many lumping errors in the codes for the verb tables in the back of the book (where the conjugation of the verb in question is almost-but-not-quite like the model).
My next dictionary (if the Paravia comes up short) is the new bilingual dictionary published by Hoepli in Italy. It's a modern design with lots of grammar help usually found only in monolingual dictionaries written for Italians.
Author: Janice Aski, Andrea Dini, Maria Cristina Peccianti, Graziana Lazzarino
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Genre: Nonfiction
Release: Aug 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: This is an alright text book. It does what it's meant to do. A person can learn Italian from this book as long as they are also in a class as well, but it definately has some flaws. One -it needs more examples of some of the more difficult grammar points. Two - the order is strange. Why did you start with avere? Somehow essere seems like a better place to start. And the chapter themes! They pretend that they have chapters arranged by topic, but it seems very haphazard to me. Also, several major grammatical topics are missing from this book, and as a result, many of my teachers have had to give us multiple hand outs to compensate. It's ok - but it could be a lot better.
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
Genre: Nonfiction
Release: Aug 2000 My Rating: 0
Summary: This is an alright text book. It does what it's meant to do. A person can learn Italian from this book as long as they are also in a class as well, but it definately has some flaws. One -it needs more examples of some of the more difficult grammar points. Two - the order is strange. Why did you start with avere? Somehow essere seems like a better place to start. And the chapter themes! They pretend that they have chapters arranged by topic, but it seems very haphazard to me. Also, several major grammatical topics are missing from this book, and as a result, many of my teachers have had to give us multiple hand outs to compensate. It's ok - but it could be a lot better.