The Usborne First Thousand Words in Italian [Hardcover]

Heather Amery (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: First Thousand Words

Providing vocabulary-building opportunities, the pictures and labels in this book promote direct association of the Italian word to ensure effective learning. The text has been updated, and there are also a number of new illustrations.'

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Edc Pub; 2nd edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0746037775
• ISBN-13: 978-0746037775
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,552,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > Italian

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motivates interest in children., April 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: First Thousand Words in Italian (First 1000 Words) (Italian Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is bright and cheerful. It is loaded with pictures to capture the attention of the young person interested in Italian language. It's a fun book for the entire family. Full of photographs labeled in Italian and with a glossary that gives the English word, Italian word AND Italian pronunciation. For a children's book we were impressed with the details and tips on pronunciation. Our friend who speaks fluent Italian was so impressed, she purchased it for her American-born children.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding resource, even for adults!, July 11, 2000

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This review is from: First Thousand Words in Italian (First 1000 Words) (Italian Edition) (Hardcover)

Do you want to learn Italian? If you want to begin to master this beautiful language, then I suggest that you acquire this fun approach. This book is for kids, but anyone who is studying a new language needs graphics to see what the words are. This book is a perfect way to visualize Italian nouns ( persons, places, or things) in the home (kitchen,bathroom, bedroom living room stairs, etc.) in the yard, in the workshop and garage, on the street ( anything you can think of), in the toy store (OH, no!), in the park, at the zoo, at the airport, in the country, on the farm, at the ocean, in school ( a scuola) in the hospital ( il gesso e le grucce ), at a party (la festa), in the grocery store ( il negozio ), food to put on the table, parts of the body, clothes, occupations, family members (zio ?) then action words, opposites, story characters, pet favorites, weather ( il tempo ), seasons (le stagioni), sports ( il calcio), colors (verde e bianco), shapes and numbers, the circus, and an amusement park. This book also teaches the masculilne, feminine, plural, and singular form of nouns, aids pronunciation, and has a large list of other useful words. In addition, the picture words are indexed in the back of the book with a pronunciation guide for each book. A must for your Italian language library!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, February 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The First Thousand Words in Italian (Library Binding)

This is a great book, great pictures, great for object recognition. The only drawback is that the pronunciation guide is at the back of the book. So for each word you have to look through the list of words till you find the word and it's pronunciation. It would have been better if they had done it like they did in, I believe the Russian book, where they put the pronunciation under the word.