501 Italian Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barrons Foreign Language Guides) (Italian and English Edition) [Paperback]

John Colaneri (Author), Vincent Luciani (Author), Marcel Danesi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764179829 | ISBN-13: 978-0764179822 | Publication Date: January 1, 2007 | Edition: 3

Barron's is today and always has been the Number-One reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. Leading all competition, the best selling 501 Italian Verbs beats all less well-established rivals with its brand-new 3rd edition. It's printed in two colors, it features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and it comes with extra help for Italian language students in the form of a CD-ROM. The book presents the most important and most commonly used Italian verbs arranged alphabetically with English translations in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. The accompanying CD-ROM gives students practice exercises in verb conjugation plus a concise grammar review. This combined book and software package is a comprehensive guide to Italian verb usage with a wealth of reference material and language tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional Italian verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and short tests with all questions answered and explained.

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Text: English, Italian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Learning Italian is Twice as Easy with This Helpful 2-in-1 Combination!

The easy-to-use reference book gives you:

The most common Italian verbs, one verb per page, conjugated in all tenses

Common idioms and example sentences demonstrating verb usage

Verbs conjugated with avere or essere

1,500 additional regular verbs conjugated like model verbs among the 501

Concise guides to Italian grammar and verb conjugation

List of essential 55 verbs with usage examples and expressions related to the verbs

Verb tests and drills

Index of English-Italian verbs . . . and much more

The bonus CD-ROM gives you:

Sentence completion exercises--fill in the correct word

Dialogue exercises--fill in the appropriate response

Word completion exercises--find the correct verb form

Word seek exercises--find the right word to fit the phrase

Matching with English--find correct translations in the right-hand column

Correct answers given for all exercises

Product Details

• Paperback: 633 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 3 edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: Italian, English
• ISBN-10: 0764179829
• ISBN-13: 978-0764179822
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome... totally awesome, December 23, 2001

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Pike Athens (the coast of California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 Italian Verbs (Paperback)

This book is absolutely packed with almost everything a language student could need. As it lists, there are five hundred one verbs, all arranged alphabetically throughout the book. It lists each verb in its seven simple tenses (present indicative, imperfect, past absolute, future, present conditional, present subjunctive, and imperfect subjunctive) and its seven compound tenses (present perfect, past perfect, past anterior, future perfect, past conditional, past subjunctive, and past perfect subjunctive). It has a page on pronunciation of Italian vowels and consonants, and then it goes into talking about how to conjugate the verbs. It begins with showing how to conjugate regular verbs, following this with the Italian translations of each tense's and mood's name. An example conjugation of an English verb is then shown to help illustrate what each tense means. After this comes further explanation of the verbs' tenses and moods, in which it deals with each of the fourteen given tenses. It simplifies the regular conjugation endings after this by showing what is taken away and added to each infinitive for each tense. Then finally come the five hundred one verbs, each one with at least two example sentences to help the reader understand its usage. Afterward comes a section on verbs which take a preposition, a list of phrases in Italian for dealing with everyday situation, days, months, how to count to 100, currency, weights, measures, temperatures, and clothing measurements. Lastly come two indices dealing with the verbs: first the index about irregular forms commonly found in the language, matching them with the verb from which they are inflected; then comes the index of English-Italian verbs as a cross-reference. This is an awesome choice to not be overlooked. Glancing through the book every so often will help to increase your vocabulary, and if you stick to a plan of learning so many verbs a day/week, you'll be learning them even more quickly. It's a simple and awesome book that any student or teacher would enjoy and appreciate.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 501 Italian Verbs:Fully Conjugated, March 22, 2000

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Audrey Mayfield (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 501 Italian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged (Barrons) (Paperback)

This book was very helpful for the Beginner to Intermediate. A constant source for reference as well as for "pulling together" the thousands of idioms and related vocabulary which is helpful only if you can use the verb correctly. A basic and a must for Italian studenti! I lost my copy to my professor and had to buy another one. A great value.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Stress and vowel quality are not indicated, July 4, 2006

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John-Allen Payne (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 501 Italian Verbs (Paperback)

I agree with the reviews below: this is a fabulous collection of verb paradigms for both learning and reference. But a significant flaw is that neither the word stress nor the quality of the stressed vowels are indicated.

The stress on the present tense of italian verbs (and some infinitives) is not predictable from its orthorgraphy and it may appear on either the penult or the antepenult of a verb. Such information is necessary in order for a learner to acquire a correct pronunciation, and it is missing in this book.

Moreover, a stressed "e" or "o" may be pronounced either open or close in Italian verbs in the present tense and in some irregular past-tense and past-participle forms; but in this book, there is no indication of a preferred pronunciation. Such information would be of great intrest to a learner who wanted to develop a native-like accent.

In order to find information regarding verb stress and vowel quality, a learner would need to consult a second dictionary.

As an alternative, I would recommend, at least for starters, the trade paperback called "200 Italian Verbs" by Barnes and Noble. Although it is limited to 200 verbs, the stress is conveniently indicated by an acute accent on verbs with close "e" and "o" and by a grave accent on verbs with open "e" and "o". This publication is out of print but still available on line for under five dollars from used-book sellers.