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ITALIAN READINGS ON TAPE OR CDA series of readings in Italian on audiocassette (some on audio CD), recorded by native Italian speakers. This series aims at improving listening comprehension and introducing specific vocabulary to students of all levels. The written text includes a glossary, exercises, and answer key.ALL RECORDINGS ARE IN ITALIAN |
La pasta ( 1 )
Subject: Food (basic recipes and instructions on how to cook the most popular type of Italian food). Contents: La pasta. Come si cuoce la pasta. Penne rigate con salsa semplice di pomodoro. Bucatini all'amatriciana. Perciatelli con le sarde. Spaghetti alla pescatore. Linguine col pesto. Rigatoni con melanzane. Conchiglie con mozzarella e pomodori. Glossary. Exercises.
30 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR01 - Price: $15.00
La pasta ( 2 )
Subject: Food (recipes and instructions on how to make the most popular type of Italian food from scratch). Contents: Come si fa la pasta; paste colorate; fettuccine al burro e salvia; fettuccine con funghi, panna e piselli; tagliatelle ai formaggi e vodka; tagliatelle in salsa rosa; pasta coi "vruoccoli, arriminata"; maltagliati al pomodoro; spaghetti con tonno e noci; spaghetti con tonno e broccoli; bucatini con funghi e olive; penne rigate alla puttanesca; pasta aglio e olio; pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino; spaghetti alla carrettiera; spaghetti alla gricia; spaghetti all'aringa; spaghetti con uova di pesce; spaghetti con le acciughe; alcuni consigli in cucina. Glossary. Exercises.
30 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR02 - Price: $15.00
Cenni sull'arte italiana dall'XI al XV secolo
Subject: Art history (overview of Italian art from the XI to the XV century). Contents: L'affresco. Il dodicesimo secolo. Il tredicesimo secolo. Il quattordicesimo secolo. Il quindicesimo secolo. Filippo Brunelleschi. Donatello. Paolo Uccello. Masaccio. Piero della Francesca. Andrea Mantegna. Sandro Botticelli..Glossary. Exercises.
30 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR03 - Price: $15.00
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La commedia dell'arte
Subject: Theatre (Development and characters of Italian popular comedy) Contents: Origini e ispirazione della commedia. Riti dionisiaci e commedia greca. Le atellane. Il carnevale. Le marionette. Il comico popolare nel Rinascimento. La commedia sostenuta. Il teatro itinerante. Le fiere. La messa in scena. La recitazione. Il linguaggio. Le maschere. Zanni. Pedrolino. Brighella. Il vecchio. Il dottore. Il capitano. Gli innamorati. Pulcinella. Il caratterista. Gli epigoni. Glossary. Exercises.
30 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.#IR04 - Price: $15.00
L'italiano e i dialetti
Subject: History of Italian Language (Development of the national language, dialects and regional variations). Contents: La lingua nazionale. I dialetti. Le minoranze etnico-linguistiche. Origine delle lingue neolatine. Nascita dei volgari. Evoluzione dei volgari italiani. Il volgare scritto. Affermazione del volgare fiorentino. L'italiano lingua d'elezione. Sviluppo dell'italiano letterario. Contrapposizione fra italiano e dialetti. Glossary. Exercises.
50 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR05 - Price: $15.00
L'italiano e i dialetti
NEW! CD version with English translation
Subject: History of Italian Language (Development of the national language, dialects and regional variations). Contents: La lingua nazionale. I dialetti. Le minoranze etnico-linguistiche. Origine delle lingue neolatine. Nascita dei volgari. Evoluzione dei volgari italiani. Il volgare scritto. Affermazione del volgare fiorentino. L'italiano lingua d'elezione. Sviluppo dell'italiano letterario. Contrapposizione fra italiano e dialetti. English translation. Glossary. Exercises. Complete English translation.
50 minute audio CD - Level: Cat.# IR05-CD - Price: $19.99
Il vino (prima parte): La vite e la viticoltura
Subject: Wine (historical overview of wine; characteristics of grapes and its cultivation methods). Contents: La diffusione della viticoltura. La vite e le religioni. Due concezioni del vino. Le origini della viticoltura. La vite. Il ciclo vegetativo. L'uva. La viticoltura. La propagazione della vite. Le malattie della vite. La potatura e la concimazione. Glossary. Exercises.
45 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR06 - Price: $15.00
L'ottimista e altre storie (Racconti di Daniela Boensch)
Subject: Narrative (four short stories by Italian writer Daniela Boensch, winner of "Premio Opera Prima Briciola 1994"). Contents: L'ottimista, L'incontro, L'uomo in grigio, Il Kami.
35 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR07 - Price: $15.00
Il vino (seconda parte): La vinificazione
Subject: Wine (harvesting and wine making). Contents: La viticoltura organica. La vinificazione. La vendemmia. La pigiatura e la torchiatura. Vinificazione a macerazione. La vinificazione in bianco. La solfitazione, la stabilizzazione e la colmatura. La fermentazione malolattica. Le cantine. L'imbottigliamento e l'invecchiamento. I sottoprodotti della vinificazione. Glossary. Exercises.
55 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# IR08 - Price: $15.00
ITALIAN INTERVIEWS ON TAPE
"Interviste italiane" is a NEW series of live interviews in Italian with experts in a variety of fields. Designed for advanced students who wish to improve their listening-comprehension of natural Italian speech patterns, these audiocassettes include full text transcripts and provide a real-life experience of various regional inflections. To help you expand and refine your vocabulary, the accompanying booklet also provides exercises and a bilingual glossary of specialized terminology and difficult expressions.
"Interviste italiane" is a unique learning tool that complements our series of "Italian Readings on Tape" for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. By listening to these audiocassettes you will not only improve your knowledge of Italian, but also go beyond the limited horizon of traditional learning methods and discover new, exciting fields of personal interest.
ALL RECORDINGS ARE IN ITALIAN
Intervista sulla danza contemporanea
A conversation with dancer, choreographer and writer Daniela Boensch. Starting with a lively, at times hilarious account of her life as a dancer, Ms. Boensch discusses the artistic and social aspects of contemporary dance, giving us valuable insights into the creative work of dancers and choreographers.
60 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# VW01 - Price: $15.00
ORAL DRILLS ON ITALIAN GRAMMAR
A series of tapes for beginning students, aimed at reinforcing knowledge of sentence patterns. Exercises are based on repetition and transformation of Italian patterns most commonly misused by English speaking students. All instructions are in English. The written text includes examples and model sentences.
ALL RECORDINGS ARE IN ITALIAN
Tape # 1 Contents: Negative verb forms. Reflexive verbs. Negative and affirmative answers. "Come". Subject pronouns. "Presente indicativo": I, II, III conjugations; "Essere", "Avere", "Volere", "Dovere", "Potere". Definite and indefinite articles. Inflected forms of "Quello" and "Buono". Formal/familiar forms of address. Singular and plural forms of nouns and adjectives.
60 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# DG01 - Price: $ 12.00 Tape # 2 Contents: Intonation patterns: Statements, Yes/No questions. Comparison: "Più di", "Meno di", special forms. Superlative. "Presente indicativo": "Fare", "Andare". Stress patterns. Object pronouns. "Dove". Simple and articulated prepositions.
60 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# DG02 - Price: $ 12.00
Tape # 3 Contents: Definite article. Expressions of time. "Non ... ancora" and "Appena". Ordinal adjectives. "Già" and "Non ... ancora". "Non oltre" and "Fino a". "Prima di" followed by an infinitive. Negative answers. Use of "Mai". "Di fronte" and "Davanti". "Presente indicativo" followed by "Da". "Dopo" and "Prima di". Non-verbal use of the infinitive. Numbers. Hours. "Oltre a". Adverbial suffix "-mente". "Invece di". "Anche".
60 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# DG03 - Price: $ 12.00
Tape # 4 Contents: Indirect interrogative clauses. Interrogative pronouns and adjectives. Use of "Volerci". Use of "Niente", "Nessuno", "Nulla", etc., with negative verbs.
60 minute audiocassette - Level: Cat.# DG04 - Price: $ 12.00
ORAL DRILLS ON ITALIAN VERBS
A series of eight tapes for beginning and intermediate students. It aims at reinforcing the student's ability to recall automatically verb endings, without focusing attention on meaning or syntax. Verb forms are drilled by means of repetition and transformation. The accompanying booklets provide model verb conjugations and instructions in English. All recordings are entirely in Italian.
ALL RECORDINGS ARE IN ITALIAN
Tape # 1 Contents: Regular Forms
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV01 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 2 Contents: Auxiliary Verbs
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV02 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 3 Contents: Compound Tenses with AVERE
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV03 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 4 Contents: Compound Tenses with ESSERE
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV04 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 5 Contents: Passive Voice
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV05 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 6 Contents: Pronominal Forms
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV06 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 7 Contents: Irregular Forms I
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV07 - Price: $ 10.00 Tape # 8 Contents: Irregular Forms II
30 minute audiocassette - Level: beginners to Cat.# DV08 - Price: $ 10.00 SPECIAL OFFER: Complete verb set (8 tapes)
Eight 60-minute audiocassettes - Level: beginners to Cat.# DVS - Price: $ 72.00
NEL LABIRINTO DEI VERBI - A series of reference books designed to explore all aspects of Italian verbs: conjugation, pronunciation, usage, etc.. An original and effective approach to the world of Italian verbs.
Volume 1: La ricerca dell'infinito
An alphabetical list to identify the infinitives of over 11,000 Italian poetic, archaic, and irregular forms (including homographs and homophones). Designed for students at all levels, it includes comparative tables of standard endings and poetic variants, as well as the indication of word stress and closed or open pronunciation of vowels. Introduction, tables and instructions are in English. SECOND EDITION. Adopted by the prestigious Merola program of the San Francisco Opera Center. See a sample page.
Indispensable for readers of classic literature, poetry and opera libretti!
Level: beginners to Cat.# LV01 - Price: $ 17.90
Volume 2: Le coniugazioni chiave
A series of tables illustrating stress patterns that will help you remember how to pronounce verb forms correctly; active, passive, negative, reflexive, impersonal conjugation; spelling variations; forms of auxiliary and modal verbs; past participle agreement; pronominal forms; and special structures. With a description (in Italian) of grammatical and syntactic characteristics. See a sample page.
Level: Cat.# LV02 - Price: $ 17.90
EXERCISE BOOKS
A series of workbooks aimed at reinforcing the student's knowledge of grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Each volume consists of exercises focusing on those aspects of the Italian language most difficult to master for English speaking students of Italian.
SCELTE OBBLIGATE - Exercises developed for students proficient in the Italian language who wish to reinforce their knowledge of idioms and colloquial expressions as well as to learn new meanings of common words. In general, exercises are based on pairs of verbs which students often confuse when confronted with the selection of the correct lexical item. Answers to the exercises are provided at the end of each volume. See a sample page.
Volume 1
Contents: Alzare/aumentare; alzare/sollevare; avere/dovere; avere/essere; avere/tenere; bisogna/bisogno; bisognare/dovere; cercare/provare; dire/parlare; dire/ raccontare; essere/stare; guardare/vedere; guastare/sprecare; imparare/insegnare; perdere; prestarsi/farsi prestare; salvare/risparmiare; smettere/fermare; sollevare/levare; spargere/stendere; spremere/stringere; succedere/avere successo; suonare/giocare/recitare; usare/abituare; vedere/osservare; andare a /stare per; andare/doversi; andare/venire; avanzare/mancare; lasciare/partire; lasciare/permettere; lasciare/rimanere; mancare/restare; mancare; partire/uscire; prendere/fare; perdere/portare; sapere/capire; sapere/conoscere; sapere/potere; funzionare/lavorare; sbagliare/fallire.
Level: Cat.# ES01 - Price: $ 9.00
Volume 2
Contents: tempo/volta; quanto tempo; ora/tempo/volta; espressioni di tempo; tempo/ora; seguente/prossimo; presto/pronto; quindi/quando; poi/in poi; dopo/dietro; durante/mentre; mai/ormai; prima/davanti; giorno/giornata; niente/nessuno; non; no/non; meglio/migliore; proprio; bene/buono; male/cattivo; vicino/verso; mezzo/medio; paio/coppia; come/quanto; che/ciò che; ciò/cioè; come/da; che/di; il più/per lo più; più/di più; invece di/tranne; anche/inoltre; circa/verso; dunque/così; finché/affinché; senza che/senza di; perché/purché; dunque/perché; per/attraverso; sebbene/siccome.
Level: Cat.# ES03 - Price: $ 9.00
PAROLE - A series of exercise books to help students to increase their vocabulary.Volume 1
Contents: The exercises in this volume focus on suffixes and word roots of Latin and Greek origin. Students learn to identify groups of words sharing one common element which conveys an important part of the meaning. Answers and a list of suffixes used are also provided. See a sample page.
Level: Cat.# ES02 - Price: $ 9.00
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