Books : Behind the Wheel Italian 2 Revised/Complete 226 Page Illustrated Text & Audioscript/Answer Keys/9 One Hour Multi-Track Audio CDs
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Type of bind: Audio CD
EAN num: 9781597680479
ISBN number: 1597680478
Label: Language Dynamics Ltd.
Manufacturer: Language Dynamics Ltd.
Page Count: 226
Printing Date: July 01, 2006
Publishing house: Language Dynamics Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 1043349
Studio: Language Dynamics Ltd.
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At last an intermediate to advanced level Italian CD course which requires no reading and which teaches you to actually speak higher level Italian in a minimum of time and effort. The course also comes complete with a complete 226 page illustrated text with audioscript, same page answer keys and English translations for home review. Designed by the experts at Language Dynamics,Behind the Wheel Italian 2 Revised takes you, the learner from intermediate to advanced level Italian without the guesswork and pain usually associated with language learning. An expert English speaking instructor talks you through these tapes in English while a trained professional native Italian speaker teaches you Italian the way it is really spoken. Product Features: Native speaker of Italian with an accentless , trained and degreed American instructor. The American instructor explains in English while the trained native Italian speaker teaches you to speak authentic Italian the way the natives speak it. Naturally, like you learned English as a child. Thebeautiful Italian language is totally demystified and simplified with no guessing at meanings while you drive. These professionally produced multi-track CDs allow you to pick up where you left off for easy review. The complete 226 page illustrated text for home review with same page English translations, same page answer keys for all exercises and complete audioscript for the CDs. You receive our famous dynamic sentence building and memory techniques that are built into this and each and every one of our courses.
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I have used Pimsluer, Michel Thomas and Learn in Your Car products, and all have their strengths and weaknesses. Behind the Wheel Italian 2 for intermediate learners is a welcome addition to these other worthy products. It has an excellent (and easily superior to Pimsluer/Michel Thomas) range of vocabulary and expressions, whilst using sufficient and varied repetition/review strategies that help establish good recall. Something unique to this product is the way the native speaker gives both a slow and normal paced pronunciation of a sentence. A drawback is lack of pause time for answering but this is more a nuisance than a serious flaw. Unfortunately it doesn't cover the subjunctive tenses and in a recent communication, Language Dynamics stated they had no current plans to provide an Italian 3 (they do have one for Spanish which covers the subjunctive). This is a great pity as the subjunctive is as important to Italian as it is to Spanish. The course book, though cheaply produced, has a lot of great exercises with answers on the same page, saving you the frustration of searching for answers in the back. Overall, I have found Pimsleur is a great method to get you started, Michel Thomas is superior for learning verb structures, and once you have that kind of foundation, Behind the Wheel Italian 2 is a terrific subsequent step.
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