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The Italian Headstart for Italy program consists of a unit or. Italian pronunciation and five modules with accompanying tapes. The pronunciation unit gives you some hints on Italian sounds and the Italian writing system. The emphasis has, of course, been put on differences between English and Italian and not on similarities. You'll find examples of how these sounds are commonly written.
Each of the five modules is divided into units (three to five units per module).
The units of Modules IV and V are further divided into parts; each part or unit of Modules IV and V is a complete lesson. The learning act...
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This FSI Programmed Italian course is designed to introduce you to spoken Italian. It covers virtually the entire sound-system of the language and introduces the basic grammatical categories (Gender, Number, Unit Noun Markers, Person, Tense). Although verb forms are for the most part limited to the Present tense, a few other forms including Past tense and Future tense forms are also presented and practiced. The vocabulary and structure in this volume allows for participation in such situations as talking on the telephone, ordering a meal, discussing daily activities, requesting or telling someone to do something.
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The FSI Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consists of two volumes and thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying audio recordings. Designed for use with an Italian instructor, the course has as its main objective to enable students to develop language skills considered basic and useful in Italy. Instead of a structured, grammatically-sequenced set of lessons, the course stresses communication in everyday practical situations of a social, logistical and workplace nature.
Students are urged to use whatever language they have at their disposal without being unduly preocc...
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The FSI Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consists of two volumes and thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying audio recordings. It is important that the basic order of events be followed. Inverting the order, or skipping steps, will seriously diminish the pay-off to the lesson. Self-confidence is the ultimate goal of a FAST course. How the student comes to the language is as important as how much language is learned. The sequence indicated in the steps below has proved successful at FSI. Both instructors and students find this approach more natural, less arduous, and at least as...
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