Learn Italian in the Kitchen: A Parent/Child Activity Kit (Living Language Parent/Child Activity Kit) (Paperback)

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PreSchool-Grade 3-Children learn basic words and phrases with 16 songs, games, and Total Physical Response Activities associated with food and mealtime.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

Recommended by Parents' Choice, 1998

It's easy! It's fun!

16 games and songs about food, cooking, tableware, and cleaning up!

48-page book with stickers

60-minute cassette

What a great way to learn Italian with your children! Developed by the experts at Living Language, this book and cassette program includes 16 easy, fun, and effective language games centered around kitchen activities. Learn basic Italian words and phrases while cooking, setting the table, or cleaning up. No previous knowledge of the language is required.

The 48-page activity book includes:

• 16 games and activities such as Alphabetics, Sandwich Building, Silverware Silliness, Taste Test, Graham Cracker House, and Recycling It All
  
• Step-by-step instructions, with preparation and completion times
  
• 40 color stickers illustrating the most important words
  
• Additional scrapbook activities for each game
  
• A two-way glossary (English-Italian, Italian-English)
  
• Transcripts and translations of the songs and rhymes from the recordings
  

The 60-minute cassette includes:

• Two narrators guiding you through the program in Italian and English
  
• Italian words and phrases with time to repeat after the native speakers
  
• Children's songs and rhymes, old favorites and new ones, too
  

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Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Living Language; Book and Cassette edition (April 14, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609602160
• ISBN-13: 978-0609602164
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,156,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mmmmmm.... no., July 6, 2003

By	LANCE R LINDLEY "hagakure" (Yokosuka, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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It's hard to explain why exactly, but this book didn't catch the attention of anybody in my household. The tiny vocabulary and phrases section at the beginning of each chapter is kind of handy, containing words and phrases like please, thank you, pass me, spicy, oven, etc., mostly keeping in the spirit of the kitchen theme. The included cassette tape is good for ear and pronunciation training. But the activities -- which range from gathering dry alphabet letters from alphabet soup to sticking stickers on loosely sketched pictures of bowls, trays, etc., to actually doing a little cooking -- just didn't strike a chord with us.

Is it right for your family? If your kids like hanging around in the kitchen with you and you have time to sit down with them and go through the drills and activities (and seek out things like dry alphabet noodles and cookie ingredients), then quite possibly it is. All I can tell you is, it just didn't catch on in my house... and we live in Italy.