Read Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar Premium Second Edition Marcel Danesi 9781259587726 Books

Product details Series Practice Makes Perfect Paperback 320 pages Publisher McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition (April 29, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 125958772X

Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar Premium Second Edition Marcel Danesi 9781259587726 Books Reviews

• I'm about halfway through this book and can easily say that among all of the books I've tried for language learning, this one is up there among the best. The author knows their stuff and the exercises are set up in a way that is really helpful. I should note that I've been doing Rosetta Stone and Duolingo in addition to this book and a couple others in the Practice Makes Perfect series, and your results will likely depend on the various methods you employ alongside this book. For me, understanding the grammar and getting the repetition of Rosetta Stone and Duolingo helped me to retain what I was learning and understand the reasons behind the statements. I would definitely recommend this as part of your regimen, but also understand that by itself it won't be nearly as helpful.
• The book is good. However, I bought the ebook and the Italian grammar explanations are impossible to enlarge. So, no matter how big I make the text of the book, the grammar illustrations are illegible. I've tried copying the illustrations/explanations and copying on a separate page outside of , but they won't copy. This makes the book almost worthless.
• This workbook is fantastic. I am very pleased with the logical layout and the in-depth discussions of verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc. This workbook has so much information in it, it can easily replace a textbook and be used on its own. The exercises are relevant and straightforward, but also varied.
  Something I didn't know, however, before I bought it this book is intended for intermediate users. Don't let this discourage you from purchasing it, though. As long as you know a few of the basic concepts of Italian, and understand a little about how languages work in general, you will be able to begin at the start of this workbook.
  One thing it is slightly lacking in is vocabulary. There are many other books in the Practice Makes Perfect series intended to work together, so while this book will certainly help you with all the grammar you could need for an Italian I/II level understanding, you'll need to either get the other workbook(s) or find some other source of vocabulary. I have been so pleased with this workbook, however, that I intend to complete my collection of the series.
  I highly recommend this product to anyone who wants to study Italian on their own for fluency (not recommended for "travel"-type learning).
• One time working my way through the book is insufficient for me. I study languages on my own and do a diligent job but a diligent job for my mind is daily listening and studying. The book covers very much and is organized in a way that works. With so many sub-topics it has to be difficult to organize a linear line of study that makes sense in its own right, and this book succeeds. I have a slew of Practice Makes Perfect books for both Spanish and Italian and I would be hard pressed to use another publisher's boosk on the same topics.
• It was well worth a few extra dollars to get the Premium Edition because for no extra cost I also have access to dozens of lessons and hundreds of flash cards that I can study on-the-go on my iPhone using the free Language Lab app. To tell the truth, I'm using them more than the actual book.
• I am using this book as a supplement to Rosetta Stone. it gives very understandable explanations. The only thing I am unhappy with is the discrepancy between the answers to the practice questions and the same sentence shown in the example. I have asked a friend in Italy about the correct answers and sometimes it is the answer in the back and sometimes the example in the lesson.
• Not for beginners! The very first lesson asks you to correct grammatical errors in verb usage - before it ever overs verbs at all! Very disappointed.
  I bought this for my 11-year-old, thinking this would be a great way to start her off on foreign language, and having read some positive reviews. But this book is intended for Italian-speakers who want to brush up on grammar, I think.
• This is really the only book that you need to navigate the tricky roads of Italian grammar. The language of the Italian peninsula is considered an easy language to learn, and it is, AFTER you master the nuances of why Italians speak the way they do.
  
  This is my second copy of Practice Makes Perfect, the first one having fallen apart after repeated, and sloppy, use. In the meantime, I purchased other grammar books, but none were as effective as this one. My only complaint is that sometimes the article is not given with the noun, but this is a common problem with Italian language books.