Acquerello italiano Italian Audio Magazine

If you've already learned the basics of Italian, are fascinated by Italian culture, and wish to take your language skills to a higher level, a subscription to Acquerello italiano is just the thing for you!

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Edited by Anthony Oldcorn (Professor Emeritus, Italian Studies at Brown University) and hosted by Lao Petrilli, one of Italy's best-known broadcast journalists, each edition (published quarterly with four issues per volume) of a basic subscription to this advanced Italian language course is an unbeatable combination of entertaining audio, rich annotation, and challenging pedagogy.

If you think cable television, radio, or the Internet offers comparable benefits, consider this: each issue of Acquerello italiano advanced Italian Audio Magazine comes on an audio CD/cassette so that you can work on your Italian while commuting, jogging, walking the dog, or cooking dinner. Just pop the cassette or CD into any standard player and listen as many times as you like! Each hour-long program is packed with interesting news, interviews, music, and features on topics ranging from politics and current affairs to sports, travel, film, and opera--all presented in Italian by native speakers. You also get a magazine (A5 booklet format) containing a word-for-word printed transcript of the program. Difficult words are highlighted in bold in the text and defined in an extensive (500 entries on average) Italian-English glossary. The glossary also contains explanations of tricky grammatical constructions and extensive background notes that tell you more about the people, places, and issues discussed in the program. There are even URLs for Web sites you can access to get more in-depth information.

Finally: Can't figure something out?--perhaps some grammatical issue? Log in to our discussion forums and ask the editor. Anthony Oldcorn will be glad to explain it to you or tell you where to go for help. Now how's that for customer service? The fact is you won't get this much portability, rich annotated content, topicality, and editorial/subscriber feedback from any other language product on the market.

Lastly, if you want to further consolidate your language learning with Acquerello italiano, we also produce handy Study Supplements and Flash Cards as individual optional extras to accompany each issue of the basic program.

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