Italian for Beginners: Internet Linked (Language for Beginners Book)

We’re learning Italian as a family with a well known owl app, and this little book has helped us better understand the grammar, which can get confusing at times.

I bought this as I needed to resist an absolute beginners Italian exam and the recommended book was not very good. This book makes it easy to learn new words and has good explanations about differences in masculine and feminine words ect. The audio CD is useful as it allows you to hear how words are pronounced. There are also good visual aids in the book. This book makes learning a language enjoyable.

Easy to learn

This is a great book. I have just started learning Italian at a rather late stage in my life and the book we have in class is not easy to use as there are no translations into English. This book however is clear and gives you the basics with good explanations of grammar and pronunciation.Please don't think this is just for children because of the illustrations - they just make the text more easy to understand.

I'm an Italian teacher and I have often struggled to find good beginner's Italian books in the shops. I bought this for my 7 year old pupil, who loves it. But it's equally useful for my older students or even adults. There is lots of essential repetition at the start, and then it slowly introduces the grammar and vocabulary and builds on these gradually. The authors have put some thought into this book. You could either follow it, page by page, since it's presented in a very sensible order, or pick certain pages to focus on. I'm really happy with it.

The book was fine but refers you to websites that no longer available or supported which made hearing pronunciation impossible....

Usbourne language texts, with CD are an excellent kick-start to learning a new language.. The Internet backup facilities are a great boon. It is never too early or late to begin learning something new - and Usbourne's illustrations and texts are so easy to follow.

I am finding this very helpful and listen to the c.d. every day usually whilst doing house work. when I am not busy it is very helpful to follow the dialogue by reading the words in the book