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Do you know Italian already and want to go a stage further? If you're planning a visit to Italy, need to brush up your Italian for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial Italian 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills.
Colloquial Italian 2 is designed to help those involved in self-study; structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Italian, it has also been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of Italian grammar and vocabulary.
Key features of Colloquial Italian 2 include:
Revision material to help consolidate and build up your basics
A wided range of contemporary authentic documents, both written and audio
Lots of spoken and written exercises in each unit
Highlighted key structures and phrases, a Grammar reference and detailed answer keys
A broad range of situations, focusing on day to day life in Italy.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
List of contents
Acknowledgements How to use this book, Unit 1: Presentiamoci! Let's introduce ourselves!, Unit 2: Di dove sei? Where do you come from?, Unit 3: Che tipo sei? What sort of person are you?, Unit 4: Che cosa pensi di me? What's your opinion of me?, Unit 5: Ci siamo incontrati cosi This is how we met, Unit 6:: Studi e carriera Education and career, Unit 7: Lavorare in Italia Working in Italy, Unit 8: Un colloquio di lavoro An interview for a job, Unit 9: La famiglia sta cambiando The family is changing, Unit 10: Nord e Sud North and South, Unit 11: L'italiano e i suoi dialetti Italian and its dialects, Unit 12: Essere italiani, Appendix 1: Background, Appendix 2: Dialects and minority languages, Grammar reference, Key to exercisesm, Grammar index
About the author
Sylvia Lymbery, Sandra Silipo
Summary
Colloquial Italian 2 is designed to help those involved in self-study; structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Italian, it has also been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your
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'adequate and easily accessible of some basic features of Italian culture, history and contemporary life' - Tuttitalia
