Updated premium edition of the fast, painless guide to learning the fundamentals of Italian

The updated third edition of Italian DeMYSTiFieD provides readers with the comprehensive, step-by-step educational experience that has made the DeMYSTiFieD language series such a success. This established, unintimidating approach to speaking, reading, and writing a new language takes the mystery and menace out of the learning process, whether in class or at home.

Hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses help readers with basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and communicating with confidence. In addition to DeMYSTiFieD's time-tested strategies, this edition features brand new streaming audio recordings and mobile chapter review quizzes via the unique McGraw-Hill Language Lab app.

* Established method for learning Italian grammar and vocabulary, enhanced with interactive end-of-chapter quizzes.

* 70 minutes of audio recordings in new convenient mobile app format, freeing learners from obsolete disks and cumbersome delivery methods.

* Easy-to-understand Still Struggling? icons offer specific recommendations for difficult topics and end-of-chapter questions reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses

Marcel Danesi (Toronto, Ontario) is Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books on learning Italian.