Attualit e racconti by Merlonghi and Merlonghi, Prentice Hall. Laboratory Manual to accompany the above. Italian Verb Drills by Nanni-Tate, NTC Publishing.
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This course is designed for students with an elementary knowledge of Italian. It will be include a complete review of Italian grammar but will focus on speaking, reading, writing and oral comprehension. In addition, it will focus on Italian culture. At the end of the two semester sequence, you should be able to follow lectures in Italian, engage in general conversation with a native speaker, read most contemporary prose, and write compositions with acceptable style and correctness. By studying another language and culture, the students will be introduced to a very different value system.