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Italian Verbs For Dummies by Teresa L. Picarazzi

A step-by-step guide to grasping the basics of Italian verbs Over 66 million people around the world speak Italian, and Italian remains a popular choice for American students studying a foreign language. Italian Verbs For Dummies is ideal for those who have a basic knowledge of Italian but wish to improve their fluency by mastering the nuances of Italian verbs. This plain-English guide provides coverage of basic sentence structure, moods, tenses, and regular and irregular verbs, along with exercises to make conjugating Italian verbs a snap. It can also serve as a supplementary resource for students to use alongside classroom books. Teresa L. Picarazzi (Fairfield, CT) is currently Adjunct Professor of Italian at Fairfield University and a full-time Italian teacher at Trumbull High School.

About Teresa L. Picarazzi

Teresa L. Picarazzi has taught Italian language, literature, and cinema for over 20 years at a number of universities, including Dartmouth College, The University of Arizona, and Wesleyan University. She currently teaches Italian at The Hopkins School in New Haven. She has lived, studied, conducted research, and directed study-abroad programs in Florence, Siena, Urbino, Cortona, and Ravenna. She has two edited volumes and several articles in the area of contemporary Italian political theater and cultural studies. She is also the author of a feminist psychoanalytic book, entitled Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburg's Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters, on one of Italy's foremost twentieth-century authors. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Giancarlo, their daughter Emilia, and their dog, Toby, during the school year and in Ravenna during the summer.

Introduction. Part I: Speaking of the Present. Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Verbs. Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense. Chapter 3: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs. Chapter 4: Shakespeare, Italian Style: To Be or Not to Be; To Have and Have Not. Chapter 5: Waking Up to Reflexive Verbs. Chapter 6: Giving a Command(ing) Performance with the Imperative. Chapter 7: Declaring Your Likes (and Dislikes) with Piacere. Part II: Looking to the Past and the Future. Chapter 8: Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect Tense. Chapter 9: Reckoning Back to the Old Days: The Past Absolute Tense. Chapter 10: Che Sara Sara: Looking Ahead with the Future Tense. Chapter 11: Could-ing and Would-ing: The Conditional Tense. Chapter 12: Getting into the Present Subjunctive Mood. Chapter 13: I'd Like for You to Understand the Imperfect Subjunctive. Part III: Building Compound Tenses. Chapter 14: Starting with the Present Perfect. Chapter 15: What Time Did You Get Up Today? Reflexive Verbs in the Past. Chapter 16: By Tomorrow, You'll Have Spoken of a Perfect (or Hypothetical) Future. Chapter 17: Second Guessing Your Actions with the Past Conditional. Chapter 18: Reminiscing about the Past Perfect. Chapter 19: I Hope That You've Had Fun! The Past Subjunctive. Chapter 20: Wrapping Up the Subjunctive with the Past Perfect. Part IV: Reviewing a Few Underappreciated Tenses and Forms. Chapter 21: Hypothetically Speaking: If Clauses throughout the Tenses. Chapter 22: Putting a Personal Touch on the Impersonal and the Passive. Chapter 23: Progressing in Italian through Gerunds. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 24: Ten Most Frequently Used Verbs. Chapter 25: Ten Italian Verbs Most Frequently Mixed Up. Part VI: Appendixes. Appendix A: Italian-to-English Glossary. Appendix B: English-to-Italian Glossary. Appendix C: Ten Common Irregular Verbs. Index.

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Italian Verbs For Dummies by Teresa L. Picarazzi

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