Intermediate Italian For Dummies

Introduction . Part I: Getting Your Bearings: Reviewing the Basics. Chapter 1: What Do You Know? Parts of Speech and Then Some. Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number. Chapter 3: Numbers, Dates, and Time. Part II: A Close Look at Parts of Speech. Chapter 4: All About Pronouns. Chapter 5: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons. Chapter 6: Prepositions: The Big Challenge. Chapter 7: Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Possessive Qualifiers. Chapter 8: Linking Sentences with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns. Part III: What Would You Do without Verbs and Tenses? Chapter 9: Writing in the Present. Chapter 10: Glancing Back at the Past: The Present Perfect and Preterit. Chapter 11: When Things Lasted (In the Past): The Imperfect. Chapter 12: The Future Tense. Part IV: Adding Nuances to Moods and Tenses. Chapter 13: The Imperative. Chapter 14: Forming Conditional and Subjunctive Verbs. Chapter 15: The Conditional and the Subjunctive in Action. Chapter 16: Satisfying Your Curiosity with Questions and Answers. Chapter 17: The Reflexive, Passive, and Impersonal Constructions. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 18: Ten Facts to Remember about Italian Grammar. Chapter 19: Ten Subtle Verb Distinctions. Part VI: Appendixes. Appendix A: Verb Charts. Appendix B: English Italian Dictionary. Appendix C: Italian English Dictionary. Index.

Daniela Gobetti has taught political theory in undergraduate and graduate courses in Italy and the United States. She has written several books of instruction for learners of Italian, and taught private language courses and cultural training classes. She is the principal and managing director of PROXIMA INTERCULTURAL, a consulting firm working on the internationalization of higher education.