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Introduction | |
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About This Book | |
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Conventions Used in This Book | |
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Foolish Assumptions | |
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How This Book Is Organized | |
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Icons Used in This Book | |
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Where to Go from Here | |
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Getting Started | |
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You Already Know a Little Italian | |
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You Already Know Some Italian! | |
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Cognates | |
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Popular expressions | |
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Mouthing Off: Basic Pronunciation | |
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Vowels | |
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Consonants | |
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Stressing Words Properly | |
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Using Gestures | |
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The Nitty Gritty: Basic Italian Grammar and Numbers | |
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Setting Up Simple Sentences | |
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Coping with Gendered Words (Articles and Adjectives) | |
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Definite feminine articles | |
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Definite masculine articles | |
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The indefinite feminine article | |
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The indefinite masculine articles | |
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Adjectives | |
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Talking about Pronouns | |
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Personal pronouns | |
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Direct object pronouns | |
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Indirect object pronouns | |
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Saying "you": Formal and informal | |
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Discovering Interrogative Pronouns | |
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Introducing Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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Regular verbs | |
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Irregular verbs | |
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Presenting the Simple Tenses: Past, Present, and Future | |
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Past tense | |
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Present tense | |
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Future tense | |
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Counting Numbers | |
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Italian in Action | |
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Buongiorno! Meeting and Greeting | |
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Looking at Common Greetings and Good-byes | |
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Deciding whether to address someoneformally or informally | |
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Replying to a greeting | |
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Using body language | |
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Specifying your reuniting | |
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Making Introductions | |
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Introducing yourself | |
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Introducing other people | |
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Getting Acquainted | |
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Finding out whether someone speaks English | |
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Talking about where you come from | |
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Being you, being there: Using the verbs "essere" and "stare" to describe things | |
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Extending and responding to invitations | |
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Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk | |
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Asking Simple Questions | |
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Begging Your Pardon? | |
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Talking about Yourself and Your Family | |
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Chatting about the Weather | |
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Talking Shop | |
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Getting Addresses and Phone Numbers | |
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Food, Glorious Food--and Don't Forget the Drink | |
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Eating and Drinking Italian Style | |
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Drinking, Italian Style | |
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Expressing your love for espresso | |
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Beverages with even more of a kick | |
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The Start and Finish of Dining Out | |
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Making reservations | |
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Paying for your meal | |
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Having Breakfast | |
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Eating Lunch | |
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Enjoying Dinner | |
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Savoring Dessert | |
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Shopping for Food | |
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Shopping Made Easy | |
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Clothing Yourself | |
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Departmentalizing your shopping | |
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Sizing up Italian sizes | |
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Talking definitely: Definite articles | |
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Coloring your words | |
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Materializing fabrics | |
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Accessorizing | |
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Stepping out in style | |
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Having a Good Time Out on the Town | |
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Times of Day and Days of the Week | |
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Acquiring Culture | |
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Going to the movies | |
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Going to the theater | |
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Going to a museum | |
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Going to a concert | |
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Inviting Fun | |
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Having Fun Italian Style | |
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Taking a Tour | |
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Speaking Reflexively | |
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Playing Sports | |
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Talking about Hobbies and Interests | |
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Talking on the Phone | |
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Chatting on the Phone | |
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Calling from a public phone | |
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Calling for business or pleasure | |
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Making Arrangements over the Phone | |
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Asking for People and Getting the Message | |
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What Did You Do Last Weekend?--Talking about the Past | |
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At the Office and Around the House | |
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Discussing Your Job | |
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The human element | |
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Office equipment | |
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A typical job advertisement | |
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Inhabiting Your Home | |
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Hunting for an apartment | |
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Sprucing up your apartment | |
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Bending Others to Your Will: Imperatives | |
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Italian on the Go | |
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Money, Money, Money | |
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Going to the Bank | |
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Changing Money | |
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Using Credit Cards | |
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Looking at Various Currencies | |
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Where Is the Colosseum? Asking Directions | |
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Finding Your Way: Asking for Specific Places | |
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Mapping the quarters and following directions | |
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Ordering ordinals | |
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Quant'e lontano?: Asking how far | |
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Verbs on the Move | |
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Locations You May Be Looking For | |
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Checking into a Hotel | |
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Reserving a Room | |
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Checking In | |
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Using Plurals and Pronouns | |
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Making more in Italian | |
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Personalizing pronouns | |
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Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and Buses | |
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Getting through the Airport | |
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Checking in | |
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Dealing with excess baggage | |
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Waiting to board the plane | |
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Coping after landing | |
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Going through Customs | |
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Renting a Car | |
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Navigating Public Transportation | |
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Calling a taxi | |
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Moving by train | |
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Going by bus or tram | |
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Reading maps and schedules | |
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Being Early or Late | |
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Planning a Trip | |
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Deciding When and Where to Go | |
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Booking a Trip | |
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Arriving and Leaving: The Verbs "Arrivare" and "Partire" | |
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Traveling to Foreign Lands | |
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Using the Simple Future Tense | |
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Handling Emergencies | |
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Dealing with Car Trouble | |
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Talking to Doctors | |
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Describing what ails you | |
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Understanding professional medical vocabulary | |
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I've Been Robbed! Knowing What to Do and Say When the Police Arrive | |
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When You Need a Lawyer: Protecting Your Rights | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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Ten Ways to Pick Up Italian Quickly | |
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Read Italian Food Labels | |
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Ask for Food in Italian | |
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Listen to Italian Songs | |
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Read Italian Publications | |
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Watch Italian Movies | |
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Listen to Italian Radio Programs | |
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Listen to Italian Language Tapes | |
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Share Your Interest | |
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Surf the Net | |
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Don't Take It Too Seriously | |
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Ten Things Never to Say in Italian | |
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Ciao-ing Down | |
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Don't Be Literal | |
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Four Fickle "False Friends" | |
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How Many Years Do You Have? | |
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The Problem with "Play" | |
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Being Careful of Cognates | |
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Ten Favorite Italian Expressions | |
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Mamma mia! | |
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Che bello! | |
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Uffa! | |
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Che ne so! | |
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Magari! | |
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Ti sta bene! | |
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Non te la prendere! | |
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Che macello! | |
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Non mi va! | |
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Mi raccomando! | |
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Ten Important Holidays in Italian-Speaking Countries | |
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L'Epifania (La Befana) | |
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Martedi Grasso | |
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La Festa della Donna | |
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Pasquetta | |
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La Festa del Lavoro | |
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Ferragosto | |
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Ognissanti | |
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L'Immacolata | |
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La Festa del Patrono | |
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La Sagra del Paese | |
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Ten Phrases to Say So That People Think You're Italian | |
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In bocca al lupo! | |
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Acqua in bocca! | |
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Salute! | |
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Macche! | |
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Neanche per sogno! | |
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Peggio per te! | |
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Piantala! | |
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Vacci piano! | |
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Gatta ci cova! | |
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Sono nel pallone | |
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Appendixes | |
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Verb Tables | |
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Italian Verbs | |
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Irregular Italian Verbs | |
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Italian Verbs with a Special Pattern (-isc-) | |
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Mini-Dictionary | |
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About the CD | |
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Index | |
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Book Registration Information | |