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For more information about this title, click here CONTENTS Introduction xi PART ONE BASIC SKILLS CHAPTER 1 Italian Pronunciation and Spelling 3 Pronunciation of Italian Vowels 4 Introducing Yourself 7 Pronunciation of Italian Consonants 8 Introducing People 12 Italian Spelling and Capitalization 13 Using the Verb Piacere 15 Asking People How They Are 15 Names and Surnames 16 QUIZ 17 CHAPTER 2 Meeting and Greeting People 21 Italian Nouns 22 Asking Chi è? 24 Asking Che cosa è? 25 Plural Nouns 27 Asking Chi sono? and Che cosa sono? 28 Italian Titles 30 Meeting and Greeting Expressions 31 QUIZ 3 v vi Contents CHAPTER 3 Asking Questions 37 More Plural Nouns 37 Days of the Week and Months of the Year 40 Languages and Nationalities 43 Question Words 44 Italian-Speaking World 49 Other Countries Around the World 49 QUIZ 52 CHAPTER 4 Describing People and Things 55 Personal Pronouns 56 Using the Verb Esere 57 Adjectives 59 Numbers from 0 to 20 65 Italian Currency 65 Numbers from 21 to 100 66 Asking Questions with Prepositions 68 Using Quanto and Quale 69 QUIZ 70 CHAPTER 5 Expressing Likes and Dislikes 73 Forms of the Indefi nite Article 74 Forms of the Defi nite Article 77 Expressing Here and There with Esere 82 Using the Verb Avere 85 Using the Verb Stare 87 More About Using the Verb Piacere 89 QUIZ 91 PART ONE TEST 95 PART TWO EXPANDING ON THE BASICS CHAPTER 6 Learning the Present Indicative with -are Verbs 103 Present Indicative of -are Verbs 104 Expressions of Time 106 Verbs Ending in -care, -gare, -ciare, and -giare 108 Contents vii Italian Food and Drink 109 Using the Verbs Bere and Dare 111 More About Nouns and Gender 115 Numbers from 101 to 1000 117 QUIZ 120 CHAPTER 7 Prepositions and the Present Indicative of -ere Verbs 123 Present Indicative of -ere Verbs 124 Using the Verbs Fare and Dire 126 Prepositional Contractions 128 Numbers Over 1000 133 Telling Time 136 QUIZ 140 CHAPTER 8 Demonstratives and the Present Indicative of -ire Verbs 143 Present Indicative of -ire Verbs 144 Using the Verb Capire 145 Using the Verbs Andare, Uscire, and Venire 148 Ordinal Numbers 151 Demonstratives 153 Expressing Dates 158 Italian Holidays 159 QUIZ 160 CHAPTER 9 Present Progressives and Possessives 163 Present Progressive Tense 164 Using the Verbs Potere, Volere, and Dovere 166 Posesives 169 Talking About the Weather 177 Italian Cities 179 QUIZ 180 viii Contents CHAPTER 10 Giving Commands 183 Imperative Tense 183 Negative Imperative 191 Using the Verbs Sapere and Conoscere 192 Partitives 195 Talking About Addresses 200 QUIZ 201 PART TWO TEST 205 PART THREE BUILDING COMPETENCE CHAPTER 11 Using Refl exive Verbs 213 Refl exive Verbs 213 Imperative Forms of Refl exive Verbs 217 Reciprocal Forms of Verbs 219 Fractions and Other Numerical Expressions 221 Clothing 224 QUIZ 26 CHAPTER 12 Using the Present Perfect Tense 229 Present Perfect Tense with Avere 229 Present Perfect Tense with Essere 234 Irregular Past Participles 238 More About the Defi nite Article 241 QUIZ 245 CHAPTER 13 Using the Imperfect Tense 247 Imperfect Tense 247 Irregular Verbs in the Imperfect Tense 253 Progressive Form of the Imperfect Tense 255 More About Demonstratives and Possessives 258 QUIZ 261 CHAPTER 14 Using the Pluperfect and Past Absolute Tenses 263 Pluperfect Tense 264 Past Absolute Tense 267 Irregular Verbs in the Past Absolute Tense 271