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Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way
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Marcel Danesi
The popular "Fast and Fun Way" language learning series, previously available as book-and-cassette programs and in paperback book-only versions, can now be purchased to teach Italian and three other languages as a combination book and audio CD package. This program, designed for both travelers and students, instructs in the basics of speaking, ...
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The Total Brain Workout: 450 Puzzles to Sharpen Your Mind, Improve Your Memory, and Keep Your Brain Fit
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Marcel Danesi
Containing more than 500 puzzles including crosswords, Sudoku, and mazes, this collection helps puzzlers of all levels sharpen their minds, improve their memory, and keep their brain fit. Original.
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Italian Now!: A Level One Worktext
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Marcel Danesi
Designed for both classroom use and as a text for self-teaching language learners, this book consists of 30 work units, an extensive Italian-English and English-Italian vocabulary list, idioms, and dialogues, all focused to build proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and understanding Italian. Word-completion and multiple-choice exercises, ...
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Italian the Easy Way
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This imaginatively presented course is useful to those outside a classroom environment who want to begin learning Italian, as well as those students of Italian who wish to supplement their studies to better their grades and increase language proficiency.
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Adesso!: An Introduction to Italian
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"Adesso! Video Update, Third Edition" is a complete introductory Italian program that takes a communicative and functional approach to learning language. The Video Update contains a DVD of Sulla Strada: 1378 km which takes you on a vibrant tour of Italy and offers authentic language exchanges. Also included is a Video Activity Manual bound into ...
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Italian Verb Workbook
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Marcel Danesi
Here is a fine new, user-friendly supplementary language worktext for students enrolled in high school and college-level Italian courses, as well as for those who know some Italian but want to work independently to improve their knowledge of Italian verbs. The book is divided into five main sections: verbsa present indicative tenses; their past ...
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Italian Demystified
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There's no easier way to untangle the complexities of Italian. "Italian Demystified" provides you with a friendly, nonintimidating method that takes the confusion out of learning a new language, walking you step by step through the fundamentals and moving on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track ...
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Con Fantasia: Reviewing and Expanding Functional Italian Skills
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Marcel Danesi, Michael Lettieri, Ph.D., Salvatore Bancheri, Ph.D.
CON FANTASIA: REVIEWING AND EXPANDING FUNCTIONAL ITALIAN SKILLS, 3e, allows you to use your prior knowledge of Italian as a basis for expansion and practice of more complex linguistic and cultural topics. Each chapter is built around a thematic focus, and the activities are related to these themes.
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The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life
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Why are humans fascinated by puzzles? Puzzle-addict and renowned communication theorist Marcel Danesi takes readers on an exploration of the philosophical implications of the puzzle instinct. Puzzles are as old as humanity and the human instinct for puzzles betrays the larger perpetual search for meaning to life. Danesi not only has included many ...
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Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way with Audio CDs
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Marcel Danesi
Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, new third edition of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way book with audio CDs is suitable as a language teacher for adults as well as for older children. This program instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking the new language. The book lightens ...
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Basic American Grammar and Usage: An ESL/Efl Handbook
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Marcel Danesi
Many students of English as a second language are daunted by the complexities of English grammar and its terminology. This user-friendly book was written especially for them. The emphasis here is on practical use of written and spoken American-style English, rather than on theory. The first of the bookas 15 chapters explains different kinds of ...
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Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives
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What is pop culture? Why do we so often hate to love it and love to hate it? What makes us embrace parts of it and not others? Marcel Danesi explores our human desire for meaning and the need to symbolize it in music, language, art, and other creative forms. He offers a variety of perspectives to help us understand the products of popular ...
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Correct Your Italian Blunders: Avoid 99% of the Common Mistakes Made by Learners of Italian
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Build your Italian skills - by learning what not to do. Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and using false cognates are just a few of the common blunders language learners have been making from time immemorial. With the help of numerous examples, practical exercises, and quick-reference tables, this fast-paced guide helps you break ...
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Forever Young: The 'Teen-Aging' of Modern Culture
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The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life. Written for the general reader and ...
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Complete Italian Grammar Review
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Marcel Danesi
This title, the first in Barron's brand-new series of grammar review books, presents a complete overview of grammatical terms, parts of speech, and how they work together in the Italian language. An opening section presents the basics of Italian pronunciation, spelling, and sentence structure. Sections that follow cover all verb tenses and moods, ...
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Italian Verb Conjugation Card (Foreign Language Verb Conjugation Cards)
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Marcel Danesi
The most-often-used Italian regular and irregular verbs are presented with English translations in this quick-reference format. The six-panel card is laminated for long life and punched to fit either a two-ring or a three-ring notebook. The verb tenses are listed and explained in both active and passive voices, with information on how to use them ...
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Messages, Signs, and Meanings: A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication
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Marcel Danesi (Editor)
This text is designed to provide a basic introduction to semiotics and communication theory, with plenty of examples from and applications to popular culture. It aims to make accessible the technical and often abstruse subject matter of sign theory in practical ways, with illustrations in such areas as myth, storytelling, television, advertising, ...
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Of Cigarettes, High Heels and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics
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Marcel Danesi
Author Marcello Danesi explores the discipline known as semiotics, which endeavours to understand reasons for the risky behaviours of the human species, and the human quest for meaning.Marcello Danesi is a world famous expert on language, semiotics, and communications. He is the Editor in Chief of "Semiotica" and frequently attends conferences, ...
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Italian Vocabulary
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Marcel Danesi
The newly revised and expanded edition of this language helper presents nearly 6,000 English words and phrases categorized by practical subject themes and translated into their Italian equivalents. Subject theme groupings include numbers and measurements, as well as words and phrases related to greeting, travel situations, shopping, using the ...
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Pronounce It Perfectly in Italian: Book with 2 Cassettes
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Pronounce It Perfectly, Marcel Danesi
This course focuses on vowel sounds, diphthongs, syllable stress, and unusual Italian consonant combinations. Also includes extensive practice with words and sentences.
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Italian Grammar
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Books in Barron's foreign language "Grammar Series" are small in size but filled with helpful fast-reference information for language students. They make fine supplements to standard textbooks. Topics covered include parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, idioms, and pronunciation advice. This new edition of "Italian Grammar" is printed ...
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Crucigramas y Acertijos En Inglis Para Hispanohablantes: English Word Puzzles for Speakers of Spanish
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Marcel Danesi
Word puzzles are fun, but just as important, they also have a hidden educational benefit. They help students of a new language learn vocabulary and word meanings easily and efficiently. Spanish speakers who are learning English as a second language will find this book's puzzles challenging, fun to solve, and ideal for expanding and developing ...
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Analyzing Cultures: An Introduction and Handbook
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Marcel Danesi, Paul Perron, Paul J Perrone
"Analyzing Cultures" is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines, including: introductory courses in semiotics; courses in cultural studies; anthropology courses on culture; and, social science courses on human nature. Each of the twelve ...
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Encyclopedic Dict of Semiotics
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Semiotics, Media Studies, and, Communication Studies are Three Closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; communication studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and media studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received. This ...
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Understanding Media Semiotics
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Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. The two basic features of the ...
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