Table of Contents
Pronunciation 7
Week 1 11
Greetings & Booking a Room
Gender
Articles: "A," "An," "The"
Questions
Negative Sentences
Making Introductions
Present Tense of Essere ("To Be")
Forms of Address
Present Tense of Avere ("To Have")
Present Tense of -are Verbs
Talking About What You Do and Where You Live
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 2 26
Talking About Your Home
"Mr.," "Mrs.,"Miss," "Ms."
Plurals of Articles
Plurals of Nouns and Adjectives
Present Tense of -ere and -ire Verbs
"My," "Mine," "Your," "Yours," Etc.
Renting an Apartment
C'è ("There Is") and Ci Sono ("There Are")
Prepositions: "To," "From," Etc.
Possession
Question Words: "Whose?" "What?" "Where?"
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 3 48
Asking the Way & Buying Tickets
"This," "That," "Those," Etc.
Indefinite Adjectives ("Some," "Any," Etc.)
Taking Buses and Trains
Numbers
Telling the Time
Past Participles
Talking About the Past
Traveling by Plane and Car
Irregular Verbs
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 4 69
Booking a Place to Stay
Modal Verbs: "Want," "Can," "Must"
Verbs with -isc- Conjugations
Buying Property
The Imperative
Negative Imperative
Irregular Present-Tense Verbs
Irregular Imperatives
The Euro and More Numbers: 1,000 to 1,000,000,000
Days of the Week, Months, and Dates
Asking About Facilities
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 5 87
Buying a Drink
Object Pronouns: "Me" "You," "Him; Etc.
The Conditional ("Would")
The Imperative with Object Pronouns
Irregular Verbs: Bere, Dire, Sapere
Irregular Past Participles: Bere, Cuocere, Dire
Two Verbs for "Can": Sapere, Potere
Likes and Dislikes: Mi Piace/Non Mi Piace
Ordering a Meal
Uses of the Preposition Da
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 6 108
Going Shopping
The Pronoun Ne
Object Pronouns with Perfect Tenses
Double Pronouns ("He Gives It to Me")
At the Bank
Ordinal Numbers: "First," "Second," Etc.
Irregular Verbs: Aprire, Chiedere, Chiudere, Mettere, Etc.
Making a Complaint
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 7 126
Describing Ailments
Reflexive Verbs ("1 Enjoy Myself")
Describing an Accident
Imperfect Tense ("I Was Doing")
Use of Perfect and imperfect Tenses
Imperfect of Essere
Irregular Plurals Parts of the Body
More Irregular Verbs
Past Perfect ("I Had Done")
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 8 147
Talking About Hobbies and Interests
Expressing Opinions
Comparatives ("More," "Less")
Superlatives ("Most" "Least")
Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives
Arranging a Meeting
Prepositions with Infinitives
Apologizing
Letter-Writing Practice
Expressions Using Avere
Agreeing and Disagreeing
Use of the Verb Fare
Irregular Verb: Accorgersi
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 9 167
Talking About Jobs
Relative Pronouns: "Who," "Which," "That," Etc.
Choosing Forms of Address
Irregular Verbs: Imperatives of Andare, Dire, Fare
Shortened Imperatives with Pronouns
Talking About Current Affairs
The Present Participle (-ing Form)
Present and Past Continuous
Use of Stare Per …
Irregular Verb: Eleggere
Negative Pronouns and Adverbs: "Nothing," "No One," "Never," Etc.
Verbs Ending in -gliere
Spelling Things Out
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Week 10 190
Getting to Know People
The Future Tense
Irregular Verbs in the Future and Conditional
Future Perfect and Past Conditional
Talking About Jobs and Interests
"Each Other" / "One Another"
Use of the Prepositions A, Da, Di
Talking About the Weather
Disjunctive Pronouns
Conversations and Exercises
Key Phrases & Vocabulary
Key to Exercises 211
Mini-dictionary 227
Italian-English
English-Italian
Index 251
