Italian Language. Self-Study Guide

This self-study guide is intended for those who study the Italian language independently. It allows you to develop the speaking skills necessary for communication and reading simple literature, and to master the basics of grammar: the self-study lessons introduce grammatical... features of the language and commonly used everyday vocabulary. Having mastered it, you can easily navigate any situation during direct communication with the residents of Italy. To quickly memorize ordinary speech constructs, pay close attention to the selections of lexical material, which are accompanied by transliteration (the thematic list is provided in the contents).
In each lesson of the self-study guide, you will find descriptions of lexical-grammatical categories of all parts of speech, exercises for memorizing the studied material, and texts using active speech structures. For checking completed exercises, the book provides lesson keys at the end. The self-study lessons are supplemented with a dictionary that can be used for translating unfamiliar words found in the exercises. The book also contains information of a cultural nature, which will undoubtedly be useful during your travels in Italy.