My Italian Language Workbook has Arrived!

Since my Italian language class ended I ordered a big fat Italian workbook, and it has finally arrived. I love it!! It has cartoons, vocabulary, conversations, quizzes, crossword puzzles, and areas where you have to write a "composition." Boy, it has been a long time since I have heard that word "composition." And I never heard the word "Wordtext."

Anyway this is the book. The title is Italian Now!: A Level One Worktext by Marcel Danesi

ISBN-10: 0764130730 | ISBN-13: 978-0764130731
It's around  $25.00 plus shipping.

 

Laziness in Italy -- a funny poem spoken by my Italian teacher

Audio file (one minute)

I just finished my 8 week course with Giovanni Tempesta . This

photo of him captures his vitality perfectly! And the audio file

I have included above captures his talent at speaking. Even if you just
listen to it for thirty seconds you can hear his inflections.

He is one of the most engaging language teachers I have ever met.

My professore told us about a TV show in Italian (Detective Montalbano) that we can watch with English subtitles. From the previews I have seen, it looks like a humorous mystery. The main character even looks like my teacher! :-)

If you live in San Mateo you can watch it on Monday nights at 10 PM on Channel 17.