Italian all-in-one for dummies

Introduction 1    Book I: Speaking Italian in Everyday Settings 5    Chapter 1: Exploring Pronunciations and Italian You May Already Know 7    Chapter 2: Dealing with Numbers, Dates, and Time 21    Chapter 3: Buongiorno! Salutations! 41    Chapter 4: Making Small Talk 55    Chapter 5: Casa Dolce Casa: Home Sweet Home 67    Chapter 6: Using the Phone and Talking Business 81    Chapter 7: Food, Glorious Food, and Drink 97    Chapter 8: Shopping, Italian-Style 115    Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 133    Chapter 1: Where Is the Colosseum? Asking Directions 135    Chapter 2: Having Fun Out on the Town 147    Chapter 3: Exploring the Outdoors, Sports, and Hobbies 163    Chapter 4: Planning a Trip 179    Chapter 5: Money, Money, Money 189    Chapter 6: Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and Buses 199    Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 215    Chapter 8: Handling Emergencies 223    Book III: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials for Communication 239    Chapter 1: What Do You Know? Parts of Speech 241    Chapter 2: Noun and Article Basics: Gender and Number 253    Chapter 3: All about Pronouns 267    Chapter 4: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons 281    Chapter 5: Meeting the Challenge of Prepositions 297    Chapter 6: Demonstrative, Indefi nite, and Possessive Qualifiers 307    Chapter 7: Making Connections with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 323    Chapter 8: Asking and Answering Questions 335    Book IV: Mastering Italian Verbs and Tenses 345    Chapter 1: Jumping into Action with Italian Regular Verbs 347    Chapter 2: Talking in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs 361    Chapter 3: Using Refl exive Forms and the Imperative Mood 375    Chapter 4: Declaring Your Likes (And Dislikes) with Piacere 389    Chapter 5: The Future Tense and the Conditional Mood 403    Chapter 6: Getting into the Subjunctive Mood 415    Book V: Building Compound Tenses 433    Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Talking in the Past Tense 435    Chapter 2: Refl exive Verbs in the Past 451    Chapter 3: Second-Guessing Actions with the Past Conditional and Past Perfect 461    Chapter 4: I Hope That You   ve Had Fun! The Subjunctive Mood in the Past 469    Chapter 5:    If    Clauses, the Impersonal, and the Passive 477    Chapter 6: Progressing through Gerunds in Italian ...487    Book VI: Appendixes 493    Appendix A: Verb Tables 495    Appendix B: Italian-English Mini-Dictionary 529    Appendix C: English-Italian Mini-Dictionary 545    Appendix D: Fun & Games 561    Appendix E: Audio Tracks 615    Index 619