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<p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part 1: Getting Your Bearings with the Basics 5</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Greetings! Getting to Know You 7</p> <p>Chapter 2: Embedded Gender and Number: Nouns and Articles 19</p> <p>Chapter 3: Putting Two and Two Together: Numbers, Dates, and Time 33</p> <p><b>Part 2: Verbs as Building Blocks 45</b></p> <p>Chapter 4: Noting to Be or to Have with Essere and Avere 47</p> <p>Chapter 5: Forming the Present 61</p> <p>Chapter 6: Going and Coming with Irregular Verbs 73</p> <p><b>Part 3: Building Beautiful Sentences: Parts of Speech 87</b></p> <p>Chapter 7: Enriching Adjectives and Adverbs 89</p> <p>Chapter 8: Comparisons and Superlatives 103</p> <p>Chapter 9: Prepositions, and Then Some 113</p> <p>Chapter 10: La Mia Famiglia: Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns 127</p> <p>Chapter 11: Asking with Interrogatives; Pointing Out with Demonstratives 139</p> <p><b>Part 4: More Verb Tenses 149</b></p> <p>Chapter 12: Glancing Back at the Past: The Passato Prossimo 151</p> <p>Chapter 13: Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect 167</p> <p>Chapter 14: Looking Ahead: The Future Tense 183</p> <p>Chapter 15: Commanding and the Imperative 195</p> <p>Chapter 16: Forming and Using Conditional Verbs 211</p> <p>Chapter 17: Everyday Communication with Reflexives 223</p> <p><b>Part 5: The Part of Tens 237</b></p> <p>Chapter 18: Ten Practice Dialogues for When You’re Out and About in Italy 239</p> <p>Chapter 19: Ten Common Word Swaps to Avoid 251</p> <p><b>Part 6: Appendixes 255</b></p> <p>Appendix A: English-Italian Dictionary 257</p> <p>Appendix B: Italian-English Dictionary 261</p> <p>Index 265</p>

<p><b>Teresa Picarazzi, PhD,</b> has taught Italian language, literature, and cinema for more than 30 years. She now teaches Italian at The Hopkins School in New Haven. She has lived, studied, and worked in Florence, Siena, Urbino, Cortona, and Ravenna, Italy. She has written books and several articles on Italian politics and culture.

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