Berlitz Self-Teacher: Italian (Berlitz Self-Teachers)
by Berlitz Editors
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 458.3421
EAN: 9780399513251
ISBN: 0399513256
Label: Perigee Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1987-03-06
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Studio: Perigee Trade
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great for getting in the know
Comment: Bought this shortly before I went to school in Italy; even brought it to school with me in Florence; On-the-ball with the way the language is used and worked great- easy to understand and learn - Just wish they made a series for scandinavian!
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Summary: waste of time and money
Comment: When I initially started learning Japanese about twelve years ago, I picked up a Berlitz language book to help
me learn. Little did I know at the time that quite a bit of the info in the book was either incorrect or just
altogether inaccurate.
I think one perfect example of this was that according to the Berlitz book, the expression for "hello" was
"Ohayo Gozaimasu". What they fail to mention is that this term for "hello" really means "good morning"
and that you wouldn't use it after about 11 am. But they don't make this distinction and that seems
to extend throughout their entire course.
I've since spoken with friends who've found this to be true with other Berlitz language books (French,
Spanish, Italian, Korean, German, etc) as well.
Berlitz really fails to take into consideration that certain words that we may use in English are not
necessarily translated into the other languages with the same usage or meaning.
I've found the Pimsleur language courses to be much more effective in learning and more accurate
with information presented.
If you must use Berlitz, proceed with caution and do some research to verify the information they
provide is the correct usage in whatever language you're studying.
Since studying Japanese, I've also studied French and Italian and make every effort to avoid Berlitz books
in each occasion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It works
Comment: I bought this for a friend who wants to learn Italian. I already speak Italian. Now we are conversing (very simple stuff, of course) in Italian!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the best, but good.
Comment: I rate this book the highest out of my books on teaching yourself a language. There are two big problems with it however. It does not go into irregular verb usage and adjective placement, you just have to sort of figure it out on your own. Also, Berlitz often throws in vocabulary and concepts that are not defined in either the lesson, glossary, or index.
Obviously this is not an all in one sort of book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Adjunct to Berlitz Courses
Comment: I speak German fluently, thanks to getting my start from the Berlitz Self-Teacher in German, but I've always had trouble learning Italian, even though I studied it for two semesters in the late 1980s in college.
Nonetheless, I took Italian courses at the Berlitz school in Princeton, NJ, last year to refresh my knowledge of the language. Although the course had a companion book (written in the 1970s), I found this older volume to be more helpful with keeping up with my teacher, who was quite a taskmaster.
Now that I am back in Texas, and no longer taking Italian at Berlitz, I am still working my way through the book. It keeps you entertained, and I like the "little professor" illustrations, particulaly those of Italian celebrities of the day, such as Arturo Toscanini and Joe DiMaggio. Fun book!
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