Level 2
Developed by Elaine Vertucci Baran
An Independent Approach to Learning Italian!
Over the years, Audio Forum® customers have used our courses to learn Italian in as little as 25 minutes a day, entirely on their own. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to achieve fluency in Italian using this proven audio/text method. While other premium computer-based language courses offer only the means to learn to speak, with Audio-Forum®, you'll not only speak fluently, you'll also master reading, writing, and grammar skills at a scholarly level — all with the confidence and polish of a native Italian speaker.
* 7.9 hours of audio, 10 units
* 136-page text
* Sentence and dialog learning activities
* Question and answer drills, narratives
* Pronunciation and repetition drills
* Mixed response and substitution drills
* Grammar exercises
* Writing awareness
* Present perfect tense, irregular past participles
* Familiar imperative forms, possessive adjectives
* Irregular verbs, future tense, reflexive verbs
* Direct and direct object pronouns, possessive pronouns
* Tests and answer keys
About the Language
Italian is often considered the world's most beautiful spoken language, and is part of a cultural heritage including art, architecture, food, literature, and music. It is a Romanic language, one of a group of languages descended from Latin. There are over 60 million native speakers of Italian worldwide in Italy, San Marino, Malta, Switzerland, and many other countries.
Modern Spoken Italian originated as a college curriculum for students learning Italian. Unable to find course materials that emphasized competence in natural communication, the author decided to develop her own. This audio/text course offers an independent study approach to active Italian communication.
Developed by Elaine Vertucci Baran
An Independent Approach to Learning Italian!
Over the years, Audio Forum® customers have used our courses to learn Italian in as little as 25 minutes a day, entirely on their own. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to achieve fluency in Italian using this proven audio/text method. While other premium computer-based language courses offer only the means to learn to speak, with Audio-Forum®, you'll not only speak fluently, you'll also master reading, writing, and grammar skills at a scholarly level — all with the confidence and polish of a native Italian speaker.
* 7.9 hours of audio, 10 units
* 136-page text
* Sentence and dialog learning activities
* Question and answer drills, narratives
* Pronunciation and repetition drills
* Mixed response and substitution drills
* Grammar exercises
* Writing awareness
* Present perfect tense, irregular past participles
* Familiar imperative forms, possessive adjectives
* Irregular verbs, future tense, reflexive verbs
* Direct and direct object pronouns, possessive pronouns
* Tests and answer keys
About the Language
Italian is often considered the world's most beautiful spoken language, and is part of a cultural heritage including art, architecture, food, literature, and music. It is a Romanic language, one of a group of languages descended from Latin. There are over 60 million native speakers of Italian worldwide in Italy, San Marino, Malta, Switzerland, and many other countries.
Modern Spoken Italian originated as a college curriculum for students learning Italian. Unable to find course materials that emphasized competence in natural communication, the author decided to develop her own. This audio/text course offers an independent study approach to active Italian communication.