Drive Time: Italian (Cassette): Learn Italian While You Drive (All-Audio Courses) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 1400021863 | ISBN-13: 978-1400021864 | Publication Date: May 17, 2005 | Edition: Cas/Pap

Now anyone can learn a foreign language while commuting to work, running errands, or even taking a trip with the family. The new all-audio Drive Time series starts with an ingenious “On-Ramp” cassette that eases language learners into Spanish, French, Italian, or Japanese with simple, practical expressions and engaging warm-up exercises. Three additional cassettes contain 18 lessons that cover all of the essentials—vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and basic conversation.

Drive Time also includes a 64-page reference guide for anyone who would like to see spellings or read dialogues as a review—from the passenger seat, of course!

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Living Language; Cas/Pap edition (May 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400021863
• ISBN-13: 978-1400021864
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,524,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #31 in Books > Books on Cassette > Languages > Italian

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102 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1st CD is GREAT - Better know Italian from 2nd disc on or you'll be LOST !!!, November 5, 2006

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J. Rossi (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive Time: Italian (CD): Learn Italian While You Drive (All-Audio Courses) (Audio CD)

This my first review on Amazon but I was compelled to write based on my experience with this course. The first CD is fantastic. It starts off slow and gives you a solid foundation to build upon as you move from lesson to lesson. Within a few weeks of driving back and forth to work I had mastered all the lessons on the CD and could easily translate the English phrases in the final review lesson into Italian. I was confident and had a good grasp on building sentences and nuances such as how words changed when the subject was masculine or feminine. My opinion is that most people write their review based on the first CD.

And then I put in the second CD. I thought there was some mistake, as if I had switched to a completely different Italian course. The slow, clear speaking narrators were gone and replaced with fast talking Italians who didn't repeat anything, and certainly didn't give you time to repeat in the pause. The assumption appeared to be that I already understood the language and this was merely a refresher course. Within ten minutes I knew this was no longer the course for me. I listened to the entire second CD just in case this was all a joke and at some point they would slow down and actually help me learn Italian. No such luck! I have gone back to using the first CD for practice while I wait for the Pimsleur Italian course to arrive.

63 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn Italian While You Drive, August 18, 2005

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Sonjia Williams "olive oil" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive Time: Italian (CD): Learn Italian While You Drive (All-Audio Courses) (Audio CD)

This CD set is excellent! I recently took a semester of beginning Italian and this tape serves to reinforce what I've learned as well as prepare me for the next level course. What's great about it is I get more practice speaking Italian and hearing Italian as well as training my ear to hear native Italian speakers which is immensely different from what you hear in a classroom setting. I recommend this set to anyone wanting to improve on their speaking the Italian language and sustaining their knowledge of the language between subsequent course taking.

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good starter course, June 2, 2005

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Paul "Pauli" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive Time: Italian (CD): Learn Italian While You Drive (All-Audio Courses) (Audio CD)

The entire playing time of this set is 4 hours, so the time is fairly limited. There are a pretty good amount of words introduced and the speakers are very good - they enunciate well.

I think there could have been more exercises, that would be my only gripe, plus it's a little bit overpriced in my opinion (around $15). The booklet that comes with it is good and covers all the words learned on the disks.