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Italian Verbs 101 [With Listening Guide] (Learn in Your Car) (Italian Edition)

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This is a superb product, which provides drill in 101 verbs in the present, imperfect, present perfect, and future tenses, plus the participle and the gerundive. There are a few small glitches (e.g., "I have ran, you have ran" etc.), but they don't affect the value of the exercises. After two days of using this, I felt very comfortable with the four tenses, although such drill can be demanding. The audio CDs are far better than a book for mastering the maddening shift in accent with the 3d person plurals.

My only serious regret is that the absolute past tense (passato remoto) was not included. It is full of irregularities that I find nearly impossible to remember.

If nothing else, after going through the 101 verbs for 6 full conjugations, I certainly had learned the meanings of the 101 verbs. But the patterns in the conjugations became very clear and fairly easy to remember as well.

This is a great product.

This has been one of my best purchased items in the pursuit of learning the Italian language. It covers most of the main verbs and it's conjugations. The format is easy to follow. Native speakers are also involved in the project. I highly recommended these learning CD's, and the price is not bad at all for all it's worth.

I'm a polyglot and enjoy learning foreign languages. This CD set is for those who want fine tuning in grammar but for those who learn with visual cues, this is not for driving but for home studying. I found a mistake in one of the CDS, also. It's also a little disappointing that very important conjugations such the conjunctive and imperative tenses are not mentioned (maybe in a separate edition?). Otherwise, a great tool. I gave it 3 stars for the reasons above all, otherwise, it would be a 5. This is not a review of the seller, just of the product.

This CD set was almost exactly what I was looking for. I got this because verbs are my biggest challenge in language. This was the only thing out there that I could find focusing on both vocabulary and specifically verbs. The only thing that would make this better is that I wish all the verbs were done as separate sound bites so that I could load them into my iPod and put them on shuffle. It is easy to remember all the conjucations in order. It is much harder to hear them separated (where you don't know which tense, which verb, etc. to expect). I am actually working on doing this myself. I do still recommend it, as it is unique in its scope, and you won't find anthing else close.