Avanti!: Beginning Italian, 2nd Edition

Using for private instruction, it’s just what I needed and arrived in perfect shape.

As are all these days it is an expensive textbook but I am learning a ton using this book in my Italian 1 class along with the workbook. Thankfully these two texts will get me through 6 courses of Italian. I like the way it is organized, the examples and practice that reinforces the lesson, and all the interesting Italian culture details. I am glad it is the text for my classes.

It's an Italian textbook. However, I have seen much better in my day. I suggest "Ciao!" if you can find it.

I enjoyed this book and the class and was able to learn elementary Italian.

Required textbook for a course

book was said to be in good condition but some pages were ripped out.

This book is not helpful to some one who desires to learn Italian on their own. The format of this book makes understanding the language difficult. Many concepts are left unexplained or poorly explained. I can not comment concerning its utility in a class room setting, but it fails miserably at self-instruction. I learned German through self-instruction so that when I visited Austria, I spoke only German. I had no difficulty with the language. Therefore I can comment from personal experience. I do not recommend this book for self-instruction. It should not be offered to the general reader without indicating that it is appropriate for class room instruction only.

Book was as described. Delivered in time