Every pay day vado alla banca and then to Borders bookstore if not Barnes and Nobles bookstore and buy any books for learning Italian I don't already have.

These are books from this last pay check:

Easy Italian Step-By Step - Master High-Frequency Grammar for Italian Proficiency - Fast! Mc Graw Hill
McGraw-Hill: Easy Italian Step-by-Step : BookMcGraw-Hill Book, Get up and running with Italian Easy Italian
Step-by-Step proves that a solid grounding in grammar basics is the key to mastering a second ...


Barron's Italian Vocabulary
Amazon.com: Italian Vocabulary (Barron's Vocabulary Series ...... Italian Vocabulary (Barron's Vocabulary Series): Marcel Danesi: Books. ...
Mastering Italian Vocabulary: A Thematic Approach (Mastering Vocabulary ...

Talk Dirty Ialian - Beyond cazzo: The curses, slang, and streeet lingo you need to know when you speak Italiano.
This sort of Italian isn't Church sanctioned. LOL! Speak Ittalian Like the Natives!
Niente male la tua suocera; anzi direi che e proprio #*&#*&#*#!
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Grazie Villa!

I bought a couple of books recently that I have really enjoyed and found very useful...

English Grammar for Students of Italian
Sergio Adorni, Karen Primorac

This is an awesome book for those like me who couldn't diagram a sentence to save their lives. It introduces each part of grammar and explains it and gives examples in English and then does the same for Italian. In the past my ability to build sentences in Italian was hampered by not being able to dissect or understand what I was doing instinctually in English.

Easy Italian Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students.
Riccarda Saggese

This book is a reading primer in Italian. It is based on the idea that learning to read in Italian is a fast way to gain basic mastery of the language.

Each chapter follows the story of a cast of characters. Starting with simple sentences and paragraphs and builds as it goes. Each paragraph has a set of vocabulary words and a set of questions in Italian that you are expected to answer in Italian. The book comes with an optional CD that contains all of the book in audio - so that you can use it on your PC or MP3 player - to learn to understand spoken Italian.

Both of these books are under $20 each at Barnes and Noble and probably at Amazon as well. I recommend them as an inexpensive way to get started on Italian.

Ciao,
Carlo

Ciao Carlo. There is a Border's book store just 10 minutes away from my house and a Barnes and
Noble a little farther away. Have just about every book for learning Italian those stores carry
but don't have that "English grammar for student's of Italian." A te sembra possibile? LOL!
Will try and get in presto.

Do you have the big Green Book of Italian Verbs?

Other good books for learning Italian you might like are:

1. Italian Demystified - A self-teaching guide - Marcel Danesi

2. The Everything Learning Italian Book - Michael P. San Filippo - Actually there are two in this series. The Everything Learning Italian Workbook.

3. See it and Say it in Italian - Margarita Madrigal and Giuseppina Salvadori

4. Easy Italian Step-By-Step - Paola Nanni-Tate

5. Italian A self-teaching guide - Edoardo . Lebano

6. Italian Made Simple Cristina Mazzoni - Revised and Updated

7. Better Reading Italian Daniela Gobetti, Ph.D. - Molto piu dificile che "Easy Italian Reader": A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students.
Riccarda Saggese - (That book "Easy Italian Reader" is excellent and better for beginners than "Better Reading Italian".

8. Painless Italian Marcel Danesi, Ph.D - If you think learning Italian is dull and difficult, open this book - and think again!

9. Italian in 10 minutues a day - Bilingual Books - Kershul

10. Lo Dica in Italiano - Giovanna Guglielmo Cavagna

I can second the Big Green Book of Italian Verbs. Excellent book for those of us that struggle with conjugations!

Villa: Hope you can help. I printed off your "Important must words in Italian" however the print is so small I can hardly read the words. Is there any way you could increase the print size? At that point how can I make flash cards right from my computer? Grazie millie JLR455 I have to say, these words are "huge" in importance.

Here again are many important Italian words you need to know to
be able to understand and speak Italian. I noticed from the first
that these words kept coming up over and over again in conversation,
movies, TV, radio, books etc. etc.

Make flash cards oggi(today)

There are several classes of adverbs in Italian:

Adverbs of quality or manner:

bene- well, (BAY-nay)
meglio- better,(MEL-yo)
peggio- worse (PEG-gee-oh)
male- badly, (MAH-lay_
anche- also (ON-kay
cosi- as, like (coe-SEE)
pure- also, too, (POO-ray)
insieme- together (in-see-EH-may)
come- as, like
invece di - instead of


Adverbs of time:

Cuando?- When?
sempre- always,
mai- never, (my)
oggi- today,
domani- tomorrow,
ieri- yesterday, (YEER-ree)
adesso- now, ora-now,
allora- then, poi-then, (owl-OH-rah)
dopo- after,
dopo domani, the day after tomorrow
prima(di)- before,
ancora- still,yet, non ancora-not yet (an-CORE-rah)
spesso(frequentemente)- often,
stasera- tonight,
presto- early,soon,
tardi- late,
a tempo- on time,
gia- already, (jah) (An importantissimo little word!)
subito & immediatamente- immediately, (SUE-be-toe)
di quando in quando- from time to time,
di solito- usually (dee SO-lee-toh)
fa-ago, tre giorni fa- 3 days ago,
fino a- until, (FEE-no)
frattanto- meanwhile,
raramente- rarely,seldom,
recentemente- recently, (ray-chin-tay-MINT-tay)
ultimo- last,
una volta- once,

Adverbs of Place:

Dove?-Where?,
Dov'e? Where is?
lontano-far, (loan-TAH-no)
vicino-near, (vee-CHEE-no)
dietro-behind, (dee-EH-tro)
davanti-in front of,
avanti-forward, (ah-VAHN-tee)
indietro-backward,
dentro-inside,
fuori-outside,
qua,qui-here,
li,la-there
giu-down (jew)
laggiu-down there (lah-JEW)
lassu-up there (lah-SUE)
accanto a - beside
sopra-above
sotto-below
tra,fra-between
via-away (vada via!-get out of here!)
attraverso- through
intorno,attorno - around
da nessuna parte - nowhere
da qualche parte - somewhere
dappertutto- everywhere
a destra - to the right
a sinistra to the left

Adverbs of quantity:

Quanto?- How much?
molto-much
troppo-too much
poco-little
tanto-so much
abbastanza-enough
quasi-almost
piu-more (pew)
meno-less
circa-nearly, about (CHEER-kah)
soltanto, solo, solamente-only (soul-TAHN-toh)
assai-much
piuttosto- rather Piuttosto caro. - Rather expensive.
probabilmente- probably (pro-bah-bill-MINT-teh)
piu o meno- more or less
veramente- indeed, really
purtroppo- unfortunately (purr-TROP-poh)

Le Domande - Questions

Come?- How
Quanto? How much
Quanti? Quante? How many?
Come mai?- How come? (Very common expression.)
Che? What? (Kay?)
Che cosa? What? Che? and Che cosa? are basically the samething.)
Quale? Which?
Chi?(key) Who?
Perche? Why?
Perche -because
Che tipo di...? What kind of...?
Dove? Where
Dov'e? Where is?
Dove ci vediamo? Where shall we meet?

Aggettivi importante

buono- good
buffo- funny
caldo- hot
fredo- cold
caro- costly
cattivo- bad
celibe (CHAY-lee-bay) single male
aperto- open
chniuso- closed
corto- short
debole- weak
forte- strong
difficile- difficult
facile- easy
gentile- nice
giovane- young (JOH-vah-knee)
grande- big
piccolo- little
grasso- fat
magro- skinny
innocente
lento- slow
libero- free, availiable
malato- sick
meschio- mean
morbido- soft
nubile- single female (NEW-bee-lay)
nuovo- new
occupato- busy
pesante- heavy
piacevole- pleasant
piccante- spicy hot
pieno- full
pigro- lazy
primo - first
profondo- deep
sbagliato- mistaken
scuro- dark
secco- dry
sordo- deaf
sporco- dirty
pulito- clean
umido- humid
vecchio- old
vivace- active
vuoto- empty
zitto- quiet

Prepositions - Don't forget to make flash cards!!!

a- to, at
da- from, by, sometimes at
di- of sometimes from, about
in- in into sometimes by, on
su- on sometimes upon
con- with
per- for, through sometimes in order to + verb