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Better Reading Italian : A Reader and Guide to Improving Your Understanding of Written Italian
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 458.6421
EAN: 9780071391382
Edition: 1
ISBN: 007139138X
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: February 25, 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review:New reading series brings foreign language acquisition into the 21st century
While the world produces more and more reading material each year, from magazines to newspapers to websites, why are most language learners still relying on contrived texts and classic literature for language acquisition? Providing entertaining contemporary texts in the original language, the Better Reading Language series is for those who want to brush up on a foreign language.
With the authentic materials provided in this series, readers will be able to peruse a Latin Grammys write-up in Spanish, a feature on Alain Ducasse's favorite recipes in French, or a review of a Milan fashion show in Italian. Readings on everything from music and sports to cinema and contemporary family life are arranged in increasing difficulty within chapters. Along the way, learners will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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Rating:  - Better Reading Italian
A good learning tool for the intermediate to advanced student, Not a dual language reader so you must be on the higher intermediate side. Very good.
Rating: - Excellent source for intermediate students
I disagree with the reviewer who said that this book was not helpful and who had been studying Italian for a year in Italy. Reading Italian and learning Italian in a class are two different things. If you're living in Italy, you're using the language more to communicate verbally and aurally. So unless you read the newspaper, in the early stages of language acquisition, your strengths are not in reading - they are in listening, communication, and reading only to the extent of the basics. This ... Read More
Rating:  - Not very interesting selection; difficult references
The introduction to this book states that "learning to read a foreign language means learning how to understand texts that are aimed at native speakers and therefore take for granted references, contexts, and levels of understanding that are mysterious to foreigners." In other words, this is not a book with selections written for students of Italian. I have been living in Italy & studying Italian for a year and have a decent command of the language. Even so, I have difficulty with the ... Read More
Rating: - A different approach, less textbook, more challenge
While there is still a set of comprehension questions at the end of each feature story, one of the things I like most about this book is that it helps you begin to bridge the gap from "textbook" books on Italian, and to start jumping into "regular" books in Italian. That, and the fact that the articles have a variety of subject matter, from sports to poetry to industry, etc.
This is not a book that I've been working through from start to finish, but one I pick up occasionally ... Read More
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