Italian All-in-One For Dummies

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Learn to speak Italian like a native? Easy.Italian All-in-One For Dummies appeals to those readers lookingfor a comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to mastering theItalian language. It contains content from all For Dummies Italianlanguage instruction titles, including Italian For DummiesIntermediate Italian For Dummies, Italian Verbs For DummiesItalian Phrases For Dummies, Italian Grammar For Dummies, andItalian For Dummies Audio Set.* Offers readers interested in learning Italian a valuablereference to all aspects of this popular language* The content appeals to students, travelers, and businesspeoplewho visit Italian-speaking countries* An online companion site allows you to download audio tracksallows for more practice opportunities, as well as additionalcontent empowering you to speak Italian like a nativeWhether you're a pure beginner or have some familiarity with thelanguage, Italian All-in-One For Dummies, withdownloadable audio practice online, is your ticket to speaking, andwriting, Italian.

Introduction 1Book I: Speaking Italian in Everyday Settings 5Chapter 1: Exploring Pronunciations and Italian You May AlreadyKnow 7Chapter 2: Dealing with Numbers, Dates, and Time 21Chapter 3: Buongiorno! Salutations! 41Chapter 4: Making Small Talk 55Chapter 5: Casa Dolce Casa: Home Sweet Home 67Chapter 6: Using the Phone and Talking Business 81Chapter 7: Food, Glorious Food, and Drink 97Chapter 8: Shopping, Italian-Style 115Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 133Chapter 1: Where Is the Colosseum? Asking Directions 135Chapter 2: Having Fun Out on the Town 147Chapter 3: Exploring the Outdoors, Sports, and Hobbies 163Chapter 4: Planning a Trip 179Chapter 5: Money, Money, Money 189Chapter 6: Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and Buses199Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 215Chapter 8: Handling Emergencies 223Book III: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials for Communication239Chapter 1: What Do You Know? Parts of Speech 241Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number 253Chapter 3: All about Pronouns 267Chapter 4: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons 281Chapter 5: Meeting the Challenge of Prepositions 297Chapter 6: Demonstrative, Indefi nite, and Possessive Qualifiers307Chapter 7: Making Connections with Conjunctions and RelativePronouns 323Chapter 8: Asking and Answering Questions 335Book IV: Mastering Italian Verbs and Tenses 345Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Regular Verbs347Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs361Chapter 3: Using Refl exive Forms and the Imperative Mood375Chapter 4: Declaring Your Likes (And Dislikes) with Piacere389Chapter 5: The Future Tense and the Conditional Mood 403Chapter 6: Getting into the Subjunctive Mood 415Book V: Building Compound Tenses 433Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Talking in the Past Tense435Chapter 2: Refl exive Verbs in the Past 451Chapter 3: Second-Guessing Actions with the Past Conditional andPast Perfect 461Chapter 4: I Hope That You've Had Fun! The SubjunctiveMood in the Past 469Chapter 5: "If" Clauses, the Impersonal, and thePassive 477Chapter 6: Progressing through Gerunds in Italian ...487Book VI: Appendixes 493Appendix A: Verb Tables 495Appendix B: Italian-English Mini-Dictionary 529Appendix C: English-Italian Mini-Dictionary 545Appendix D: Fun & Games 561Appendix E: Audio Tracks 615Index 619