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Italian language - What are some of the best books and CDs for BEGINNING to learn conversational Italian?
Please recommend books and/or CDs for very, very beginning level conversational Italian. Please include links if you have them. Grazie! Ciao!
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- For starters I would recommend Italian Made Simple by Cristina Mazzoni; it includes workbook sections and is really conversational. It teaches you a lot in the form of an ongoing story – new vocab is incorporated and you have to figure it out, but once you do it sticks in your mind well. I used this book last year and only got to section 7 but I went to Italy and stayed with an Italian family for three days; it was a wonderful experience and I could really carry on conversation with them and understand what they were saying. They were very impressed at my knowledge because of this book and we still correspond - in Italian - today. I’m not sure about CDs but I know that listening to Italian music and translating the songs really got me into the language, I LOVE Laura Pausini!
- I heartily recommend Rocket Italian. It's a fun, effective way to learn the language. Here's the official site: http://tinyurl.com/62ycab And it's much more cheaper than other options... Good luck :-)
