Here are some must have books for learning Italian. Get a few or get them all.
Dai!

1. Ultimate Italian - Beginnner - Intermediate all in one book - Living Language - with or without the 4 audio CDs

2. Italian The Basics - Learn step by step, from words and phrases to full sentences. Living Language - comes with 3 CDs

3. Berlitz Italian in 30 Days - Learn Italian in just one month - Audio CD included

4. Easy Italian Reader A 3 part text for Beginning Students - Mc Graw Hill

5. Easy Italian Step-By Step - Learn Italian in 15 quick and easy steps - Mc Graw Hill -

6. Soluzioni! A practical guide to Italian grammar - Makes Italian grammare easy to learn - Mc Graw Hill

7. 30 Days to Great Italian - Speak Italian naturally - Audio CD included - Living Language

8. The Big Green Book of Italian Verbs - More than 500 verbs fully conjugated with many example sentences - Mc Graw Hill - CD rom for the computer included - If you don't have this book get it! A must have book for Italian verbs!

9. The Oxford New Italian Dictionary with more than 100,000 words, phrases, and translations

10. Italian Beyond the Basics - Living Language - Book & CDs

11. Italian Advanced - Living Language - Book & CDs

12. Cassell's Colloquial Italian - A handbook of idiomatic usage - Cassell Macmillian

13. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian - Easy lessons that guide you through one of the world's most romantic languages - Alpha

14. Italian for Dummies Audio set - A 96 page listening guide with a 120 minutes of audio Italian on 2 CDs - Wiley Publishing, Inc.

15. Immersionplus Italian - An audio immersion experience - The final step to fluency in Italian! CDs & listening guide Penton Overseas, Inc.

16. Wicked Italian for the traveler - Italian Verbal self-defense - Fa schifo! Neanche se lei fosse l'unico uomo sulla terra! Vada via che sa di aglio! Mi lasci in pace! Non mi tocchi! Molto divertente! - Workman Publishing New York

17. Berlitz Self-Teacher Italian with phonectic pronunciation - Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York

18. Italian Vocabulary - Barron's

19. Complete Italian & Grammar Review - Barron's

20. Barron's Italian/English Dictionary - Dizionario Italiano/Inglese - Free Electronic Dictionary Available for Downhload

21. Italian Pronouns and Prepostions workbook - Practice with more than 100 exercises and learn hundreds of new words - Build sentences and communicate with confidence - Expand your command of the Italian language - Mc Graw Hill

22. Italian Study Cards - Exambusters

23. Italian Phrase Book - Penguin books

24. Italian Vocabulary Trainer with CD - Barron's

25. 201 Italian Verbs fully conjugaed in all the tenses - Barron's Educational Series

26. Italian DeMystified A self-teaching guide Mc Graw Hill

27. The Everything Learning Italian Book Adams Media Corporation

28. Painless Italian Barron's

29. Guida ai verbi itlaliana Progetto Lingua Firenze

30. Manuale Pratico per Stranie con CD Giunti Demetra

I have all these books and more. Get them at your local book store or online. Buy one a week or one a month.
Go to used book stores also. You'll be surprised what you can find there.

Wouldnt it be cheaper to take a class, and/or purchase an italian person

Forse Joe, forse. I was paying $50 a pop for private one hour French lessons 8 times a month. That's $400 a month.
After awhile I decided to just take that money and buy French books and CDs. Got a ton of them for molto
piu economico(cheaper) than the private French lesssons.(for that contact with live French speakers I found a free French study group)

One of the local colleges charges $190 for one 10 week Italian class plus $80 for the book. On top of that
you have to pay for gas and wear and tear on your car. Take that money and buy the books.

But some people aren't doing either one. They are not taking an Italian class and they're not buying any Italian
books and CDs.(Then they wonder why they don't know how to speak or even understand Italian.) So either take Italian
classes or buy the books or do both like I have.

Then again you don't have to buy all those books mentioned but over time you could. I did.

One book a month and in a short time you would have them all. Joe, When you go to Border's/Barnes and Noble/or
anyother bookstore you going to tell me you can resist buying all those cool books for learning Italian!
(Or at least a few.) At the very least sit down in one of those comfortable chairs and read them. I do.
Wait a minute Joe, Don't tell me you don't go regularmente to your local bookstore to look at the Italian books?!

A proposito: libreria=bookstore - biblioteca=library Same exact thing in Spanish. People confuse these two words
in both Italian and Spanish. They think libreria is library but it's not. It means bookstore. The word for library is biblioteca.
You have the same idea with relatives and parents. parents=genitori - relatives=parenti

Do you know of any good websites that have Italian language basics?

gakyouni

"Do you know of any good websites that have Italian language basics?"

Ciao gakyouni. You mean with stuff like this: Buon giorno Hello / Good morning/afternoon, Buona sera bwoh-nah seh-rah,
Good evening Buona notte bwoh-nah noht-teh Good night Andiamo! on-dee-ah-mo Let's go! Come si chiama? koh-meh see kee-ah-mah
What's your name? (formal) Come ti chiami? koh-meh tee kee-ah-mee What's your name? (informal) Mi chiamo... My name is...[Non]
capisco [non] kah-pees-koh, I [don't] understand. Non so. / Lo so. non soh / low soh I don't know. / I know. It's my turn! /
It's your turn! (informal) Ti amo.tee ah-moh I love you.(informal) Sei pazzo! seh-ee pats-soh You're crazy! informal) Sta zitto!
/ Stai zitto! stah tseet-toh / sty tseet-toh Be quiet / Shut up! (formal / informal) Va bene!
vah beh-neh
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http://www.mydictionary.net/italian


http://www.wordreference.com/enit/

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