Adesso!: An Introduction to Italian (with Audio CD)
"We adopted ADESSO! in the Italian Program at the University of Kansas because of its functional approach to language teaching. While learning Italian, students actually learn how to function in certain situations in the target language. The presentation of grammar in ADESSO! is never an end to itself, but always a tool to unable meaningful communication. Since we adopted ADESSO! oral proficiency among our first-year students has improved remarkably in comparison to the level of oral competence they were able to achieve while we were using other textbooks."