Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles (Language - Italian) (English and Italian Edition) [Paperback]

Nancy Goldhagen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0844280534 | ISBN-13: 978-0844280530 | Edition: 1

Students of Latin and all crossword puzzle aficionados will enjoy broadening their knowledge of Latin and discovering English words rooted in Latin, with this ingenious Quid Pro Quo method-exchanging English clues for Latin words (and, for the last four puzzles, vice versa).

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From the Back Cover

Learn Italian through crossword puzzles!

Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles offers beginning students of Italian--and those who are brushing up--an entertaining but effective way of expanding their word power in Italian. The parole incrociate in this book cover a wide variety of topics related to the activities and concerns of daily life. They will challenge you and help you develop your Italian-language skills.

The crosswords in this book have been arranged according to difficulty. They begin with simple English-to-Italian puzzles, followed by Italian-to-English puzzles. You will find the more demanding Italian-to-Italian puzzles in the last third of the book. Each puzzle is also built around a specific theme, such as the weather, the house, sports, modes of transportation, furniture, and parts of the body.

If you have any difficulty with a puzzle clue, complete solutions have been provided at the back of the book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 11, 1990)
• Language: English, Italian
• ISBN-10: 0844280534
• ISBN-13: 978-0844280530
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun way to learn, June 29, 2005

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L.A. in CA - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles (Language - Italian) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

In learning a language, sometimes you just want to step away from the lesson books and the tapes and do something a little different. Why not crossword puzzles?
I agree with the other reviewer who felt that the puzzles in this book were a little too organized into "themes". It would have been more challenging to have constructed them like ordinary puzzles. In fact, it would have been even better if a variety of word puzzles were included. However, the book is useful for learning vocabulary and the puzzles are small enough that they can be completed fairly quickly.
Not perfect, but a helpful tool.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not as expected, June 26, 2005

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M. Coppedge (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles (Language - Italian) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

The front cover of the book shows a particular kind of crossword puzzle, and that's what I had expected to buy. Those puzzles are fun because you can learn new words and, with increasingly more letters available, even guess a new word. Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles does not use this type.

What does the book do? Each word puzzle concentrates on a topic: weather, color, time, animals, etc. The early puzzles give words in English and you need to find the Italian word, or vice versa. Later puzzles give the word in Italian and ask for a synonym in Italian. At the end of the book, you will find answers to all puzzles. The whole book is more of a vocabulary quiz than a puzzle. I was disappointed.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to learn vocabulary, January 30, 2006

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AmaAddict (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Easy Italian Crossword Puzzles (Language - Italian) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

As a crosswords addict, I found this book to be an invaluable way to learn new Italian vocabulary. I did one of these crosswords every morning. There's something like thirty puzzles, so it's great way to give your Italian a boost in a month. Also, the puzzles are sorted from easiest to hardest and they have different types such as Italian clue, English answer; English clue, Italian answer; and completely in Italian.