Italian workbook for dummies

Part 1. Getting your bearings with the basics : Greetings! Getting to know you ; Embedded gender and number: nouns and articles ; Putting two and two together: numbers, dates, and times

Part 2. Verbs as building blocks : Noting to be or to have with essere and avere ; Forming the present ; Going and coming with irregular verbs

Part 3. Building beautiful sentences: parts of speech : Enriching adjectives and adverbs ; Comparisons and superlatives ; Prepositions and then some ; La mia famiglia: possessive adjectives and pronouns ; Asking with interrogatives; pointing out with demonstratives

Part 4. More verb tenses : Glancing back at the past: the passato prossimo ; Once upon a time: the imperfect ; Looking ahead: the future tense ; Commanding and the imperative ; Forming and using conditional verbs ; Everyday communication with reflexives

Part 5. The part of tens : Ten practice dialogues for when you're out and about in Italy ; Ten common word swaps to avoid