- Paperback: 338 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071413391
- ISBN-13: 978-0071413398
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Focusing on the essentials, "Soluzioni!" is an accessible grammar guide for all beginners of Italian. This comprehensive handbook provides Italian grammar-at-a-glance, using numerous tables to help facilitate learning and reviewing. Complemented by an appealing visual layout, "Soluzioni!" uses real language examples to help expand students' vocabulary knowledge, while plenty of varied and imaginative exercises show how the grammar works in practice.
About the Author
Denise De Rôme is a freelance writer and translator and formerly Principal Lecturer and Head of Italian at the University of Westminster. She is author of four Italian language teaching books and consultant for the BBC Grammar series
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been studying Italian for years and this is by far the best grammar reference book I have come across. It is absolutely comprehensive and so has all the usual grammatical tables clearly set out - but what really makes it stand out from the rest are the extraordinarily well-selected, intelligent and wide-ranging examples of grammatical points that ensure a real understanding. For the Italian word sempre (always/still), for example, there are no fewer than 8 different examples showing the word used in different ways. Whatever your level, you will find this book absolutely indispensible.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Excelllent for intermediate and advanced students
22 Nov 2004
Format:Paperback
This is an exceptionally well-written grammar for those who have
studied Italian, but need clarification on its finer points, which most other grammars nerver get to. The explanations are easy to understand and the illlustrating examples, clear and precise. The accompanying exercises go a long way in making sure
the student understands how to use the grammar point in question.
I only wish there were more exercises or a separate work book.
Highly recommended.
studied Italian, but need clarification on its finer points, which most other grammars nerver get to. The explanations are easy to understand and the illlustrating examples, clear and precise. The accompanying exercises go a long way in making sure
the student understands how to use the grammar point in question.
I only wish there were more exercises or a separate work book.
Highly recommended.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Bravissimo!
3 May 2005
Format:Paperback
This is hands-down the best grammar I've found for the Italian language, and is better than nearly all the other grammars I've used for other languages. Geared mostly for intermediate and advanced learners (although beginners can profit from it as well), the book provides great explanations of the subtleties and intricacies of the language.
By way of illustration, say a sentence in the novel you're reading has an obvious reference to the past, but you're not quite sure what shading of it the author's trying to communicate. This book tells you that "allora," "a quell'epocha," and "a quel tempo" refer to the distant past, "in quei giorni" refers to the distant past in relation to a particular event, "negli ultimi giorni (or tempi)" refer to the recent past, and "nei giorni scorsi" to the very recent past.
The book is full of examples like this that allow you to understand the nuances you might come across, in addition to more basic grammar. If you only buy one Italian grammar, get this one!
By way of illustration, say a sentence in the novel you're reading has an obvious reference to the past, but you're not quite sure what shading of it the author's trying to communicate. This book tells you that "allora," "a quell'epocha," and "a quel tempo" refer to the distant past, "in quei giorni" refers to the distant past in relation to a particular event, "negli ultimi giorni (or tempi)" refer to the recent past, and "nei giorni scorsi" to the very recent past.
The book is full of examples like this that allow you to understand the nuances you might come across, in addition to more basic grammar. If you only buy one Italian grammar, get this one!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A Clear and Finely-Tuned Grammar
10 July 2009
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This is the second grammar review I have used in my current re-grooming of my Italian. The first was Barrons. I wrote an enthusiastic review of Barrons in these pages, which I stand by. It is excellent review for the earlier or intermediate student.
Soluzioni! takes one a good deal further. It deals with shades of meaning--precise degrees of superlative or urgency, etc.--that Barrons goes nowhere near. It does this with admirable clarity. A truly excellent work!
Souzioni! also takes the student into the outskirts of regional usage. Even the competent foreign Italian speaker is probably best warned that down that road lies madness--but if you want to stake out a region of Italy as your own (Tuscany, for example), some local usage would be nice. In inland Sicily or the Abruzzi it might even be necessary. (Personally I would not try to speak "Venetian" in Venice unless I was sure I had it right).
Some reviewers of Barrons urge that all students buy Soluzioni instead. I do not think I agree. Soluzioni's finer points are excellent if you already have a grasp of the language and can find a ready peg to hang them on. For the earlier student, these more recondite points might well be in the way of an already difficult enterprise.
Start with Barrons and go on to Soluzioni is my suggestion. Neither is expensive. To learn a complex and sophisticated language at home is no small matter. Barrons and Soluzioni together will cost less than one tenth of a Pimsleur conversation course--and will teach you much more hard Italian.
But Soluzioni is to be highly praised.
Soluzioni! takes one a good deal further. It deals with shades of meaning--precise degrees of superlative or urgency, etc.--that Barrons goes nowhere near. It does this with admirable clarity. A truly excellent work!
Souzioni! also takes the student into the outskirts of regional usage. Even the competent foreign Italian speaker is probably best warned that down that road lies madness--but if you want to stake out a region of Italy as your own (Tuscany, for example), some local usage would be nice. In inland Sicily or the Abruzzi it might even be necessary. (Personally I would not try to speak "Venetian" in Venice unless I was sure I had it right).
Some reviewers of Barrons urge that all students buy Soluzioni instead. I do not think I agree. Soluzioni's finer points are excellent if you already have a grasp of the language and can find a ready peg to hang them on. For the earlier student, these more recondite points might well be in the way of an already difficult enterprise.
Start with Barrons and go on to Soluzioni is my suggestion. Neither is expensive. To learn a complex and sophisticated language at home is no small matter. Barrons and Soluzioni together will cost less than one tenth of a Pimsleur conversation course--and will teach you much more hard Italian.
But Soluzioni is to be highly praised.
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