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FSI Fast Italian Now in a Digital Edtion! The Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consists of thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying tape recordings. The Italian FAST course is designed as a survival language course with emphasis on developing the necessary language skills to handle the most frequent situations encountered while traveling in Italy. Instead of a structured, grammatically-sequenced set of lessons, the course stresses communication in everyday practical situations of a social, logistical and workplace nature. The course is divided into two volumes comprising 30 lessons, plus a preliminary lesson before lesson 1. Topics covered in volume 1 are: at the airport, at the exchange office, at the hotel, going by taxi, getting around, at the embassy, shopping for clothes, and eating out. Topics covered in volume 2 are: at the office, at the cafe, dining with an Italian family, an invitation, hiring help, talking about a trip, emergency calls, car problems, renting a car/at the gas station, and providing information. The learning activities for most lessons are: cultural notes, dialogues, exercises, vocabulary, language usage notes, additional vocabulary, and listening comprehension. The CD Version of the course comes with 15 CDs and two books; the Digital Edition comes with MP3 audio files (equivalent to 15 CDs), and a copy of the text in PDF format, all on one CD-ROM. CD Version $199   Digital Edition - Normally $99, now on special for $75! $75   FSI Fast Italian Digital Downloads for $75 Download the digital edition (MP3 audio files and PDF text) of FSI Fast Italian. More information for FSI Fast Italian... More information for FSI... PDF and MP3 Samples of the Digital Courses

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An audio course is perhaps the best language teacher you will ever have, because you are in control. You can make it repeat itself at any moment, turn it off when you don't feel like listening to it, take it with you in your car, and make it teach you when you have the free time. We have audio courses for everybody, from two-cassette to 32-cassette courses. If you need any help deciding which one is right for you, please e-mail us at .

FSI Fast Italian Now in a Digital Edtion! The Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consists of thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying tape recordings. The Italian FAST course is designed as a survival language course with emphasis on developing the necessary language skills to handle the most frequent situations encountered while traveling in Italy. Instead of a structured, grammatically-sequenced set of lessons, the course stresses communication in everyday practical situations of a social, logistical and workplace nature. The course is divided into two volumes comprising 30 lessons, plus a preliminary lesson before lesson 1. Topics covered in volume 1 are: at the airport, at the exchange office, at the hotel, going by taxi, getting around, at the embassy, shopping for clothes, and eating out. Topics covered in volume 2 are: at the office, at the cafe, dining with an Italian family, an invitation, hiring help, talking about a trip, emergency calls, car problems, renting a car/at the gas station, and providing information. The learning activities for most lessons are: cultural notes, dialogues, exercises, vocabulary, language usage notes, additional vocabulary, and listening comprehension. The CD Version of the course comes with 15 CDs and two books; the Digital Edition comes with MP3 audio files (equivalent to 15 CDs), and a copy of the text in PDF format, all on one CD-ROM. CD Version $199   Digital Edition - Normally $99, now on special for $75! $75   FSI Fast Italian Digital Downloads for $75 Download the digital edition (MP3 audio files and PDF text) of FSI Fast Italian. More information for FSI Fast Italian... More information for FSI... PDF and MP3 Samples of the Digital Courses

Italian Download Store Buy the FSI Fast Italian Digital Edition now and receive it today! This is the same content from the hardcopy edition, but with the text in PDF format and the audio in MP3 format. Downloads are a single (per level) compressed RAR format file, so when you purchase, please be prepared to download a large (>100 MB) file. Software to unpack RAR files is commonly available; a free open source compression manager is available at 7zip.org. Upon purchase you will leave this site; this is normal, our download store is supplied through Paypal by a separate service provider. We accept payments for download products by Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard. And your get BIG Savings! Why are our downloads less than half the price of the hardcopy courses? Well, when you buy in downloadable format, we save, so you save! No printing, reproduction, packaging, handling, and shipping costs for us means big savings for you. Go to the Italian Download Store... PDF and MP3 Samples of the Digital Courses

Pimsleur Comprehensive Italian Courses This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Italian. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning quickly. The course features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice. 16 cassettes or CDs for each level; buy the three-level package and save $336! Level 1 (CD)  Retail Price $345 - Our Price $199 (You Save $146) $199   Level 2 (CD)  Retail Price $345 - Our Price $199 (You Save $146) $199   Level 3 (CD)  Retail Price $345 - Our Price $199 (You Save $146) $199   All Three Levels (48 CDs)  Retail Price $1035 - Our Price $545 (You Save $490) $545   More information for Pimsleur Italian...

Pimsleur Bookchips for Comprehensive Italian Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. Pimsleur Comprehensive courses come with 30 lessons for each level, normally on 16 CDs. Bookchips for Pimsleur Comprehensive levels I, II, and III are available for for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. $199   Italian I Italian II Italian III    All Three Levels bundled with iofy Audio Player $575   More about Pimsleur Bookchips...

iofy Audio Player The iofy Player is back and better than ever. With new enhanced features it delivers the same reliable performance of the original in a sleek new design. Easy to use, the iofy Player is designed specifically for audiobook chips, such as the Pimsleur Bookchip. This intelligent device is the only audiobook chip player on the market today that automatically bookmarks your listening position! Unlike cassettes or CDs, just one audiobook chip can hold 5, 10, 15 hours or more of reading material, and plays without spinning parts that might break or cause skipping when you're on the go. With an iofy player, you can "zip" downloaded audiobooks to chips and listen to them anywhere - while you're driving, exercising, or just relaxing. Alternatively, you can buy premade chips, or you can put your own music or other MP3 content on a chip and listen to that as well. The iofy player comes with Earphones and two AAA batteries. With a 16GB SD Memory Card (not included), it holds up to 2400 hours of spoken audio, or 3840 songs in 128-Kbps MP3 format. Supports Content on SD card, MMC-ROM, MMC Flash, Mini-SD, and Micro-SD (requires adaptor). Skip-free playback; Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz; MP3 (8 to 192 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Speex; One step MP3-CD to chip conversion; CEA 2003 compliant; MPV compliant. $49   More about the iofy Audio Player...

Linguaphone Italian allTalk Complete All-Audio Course This revolutionary product is dramatically altering how language-learning is approached. The allTalk course is a favorite with language learners because of its combination of effective and entertaining learning that helps you learn a language and enjoy it! Plus, with the allTalk Complete course you learn more and spend less. allTalk Complete is like three comprehensive all-audio courses together in one course. Sixteen hour-long all audio CDs let you learn in your car, while you exercise, or while relaxing at home. Learn 2000 words with the allTalk Complete course - much more vocabulary than any similarly priced course ... or as much as three levels of other comprehensive all-audio courses that cost many times more! $350   Linguaphone allTalk Complete All-Audio Course...

Linguaphone Italian Complete Course The Complete Language course helps you learn all four language skills - listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. This in-depth course uses a series of real life dialogues in each lesson to help you learn your new language. You first listen to each short conversation, then read the written script of that conversation while listening again--then the handbook (like your personal tutor) gives explanations of grammar, verbs,etc -helping you to fully understand that dialogue conversation while learning step-by-step about your new language and how to communicate effectively. The Handbook is your tutor. Written in your own language, it provides you with all the necessary language guidance and explanations. It also includes a list of vocabulary and covers all the grammatical points as new words and phrases are introduced in the recordings. The Exercise Book allows you to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking. Eight CD audio recordings of native speakers ensure a good accent, and the Textbook is a printed and illustrated transcription of the CD recordings. This means that you can follow the text whilst listening to the CD and so become familiar with the spelling and structure of the language. $399   More about the Linguaphone Complete Course...

Accelerated Learning Language Course for Italian The Accelerated Learning method is a rich, multi-sensory "theater of the mind." All of your senses are involved so that learning a foreign language becomes as easy as your mother tongue. As children we all learned to speak not just by listening but by seeing and doing. By imitating sounds, copying our parents' actions and associating the sounds with the actions speaking came naturally. With Accelerated Learning you learn your new language - Spanish, French, German or Italian - in exactly the same way that you learned your first language. Based on research from diverse experts in the field of education and psychology - from Bulgarian Georgi Lozanov who pioneered the use of Baroque music, to Howard Gardner of Harvard with his Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Accelerated Learning home study courses provide a wide variety of physical, visual and auditory stimulation. Because your whole brain is involved learning becomes faster, more enjoyable and much more effective. Each foreign language course contains the revolutionary physical learning DVD and booklet, 12 CDs (each 60 minutes long), text book with memory maps, the "name game", and a series of word cards and games. $199   Accelerated Learning for Italian bundled with FSI Fast Italian Course (normally $199) $375   More about for Accelerated Learning...

Standard Deviants Italian Add some spice to your class with the Standard Deviants Language Series! Textbooks are great but they can't help your students develop an ear for the language. The approach of the Standard Deviants series is to combine solid educational content with cutting-edge technology and top-notch writing. These award-winning videos and DVDs cut through the confusion with a clear and concise format, high-tech computer graphics, and a fun approach to serious education. Italian Part One: The Basics covers lots of vocabulary, how to speak Italian, essential Italian phrases, the Italian abc's-including the five extra letters, in-depth Italian pronunciation, Italian consonants featuring c and g, Italian vowels, stress, cadence, the accent mark, Italian cities, the formal/informal distinction, example dialogues, titles, days of the week, months, numbers 1-100, subject pronouns, intro to verbs and conjugation, conjugation the verb essere, using essere, nationalities, conjugation the verb avere, using avere, age. Italian Part Two: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives covers more vocabulary, example dialogues, Italian nouns, noun gender, plural nouns, adjectives, using buono, definite articles, indefinite articles, Italian verb basics, introduction to conjugation, are verbs, ere verbs, ire verbs, constructing negative sentences, the -isc- verb, transportation and andare, irregular verbs, making Italian questions, interrogatives, making cognates work for you. Italian Part One: The Basics - DVD $24.95   More about Standard Deviants...

Standard Deviants School Italian DVD Package The Standard Deviants can help you teach the basics of Italian with their own brand of humor, mnemonics, visual devices and memory builders. This series covers proper pronunciation, conjugating verbs, basic conversations and greetings, and lots of vocabulary. Each School Pack consists of a number of modules, each including a 10-20 minute DVD lesson; public performance and print reproduction rights are also granted for classroom usage. The modules for School Italian include the following: Program 1 - ABC's and Handy Phrases; Program 2 - Pronunciation; Program 3 - Greetings; Program 4 - Pronouns; Program 5 - Gender and Nouns; Program 6 - Verb Basics; Program 7 - Irregular Verbs. $249   More about Standard Deviants...

Assimil Language Courses Assimil courses are available for Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish. These comprehensive courses use "intuitive assimilation," a technique designed to teach in a natural manner, resulting in a firm grasp of the new language which can be used and built upon without effort or hesitation. Assimil courses include three or four cassettes or CDs and a course book. Complete courses start at $119. More information and pricing for Assimil courses...

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