Italian Language and Culture: Advanced Paperback – January 25, 2016

I have now enrolled in all of Professoressa Bartelasi-Graf's EdX courses at Wellesley and they are extremely well done! I have learned so much Italian grammar & vocabulary despite the fact that Italian is not easy! I find it much more difficult & complicated than French & I expected it to be relatively easy coming from a background of knowing French. She has lots of oral lessons with native Italians, Americans who speak it very well & also lots of vocabulary & grammar lessons to reinforce what you've learned. These books are gold. They help those of us who need to re-read our lessons and re-highlight what we've learnt. Anyway, I really appreciate the tremendous thought & effort Dr. B. has put into her courses & books. Lucky Wellesley students & now lucky us!

It is well written and has a great layout. It is quite helpful for the Italian course offered through EdX.

An excellent compliment to the class by the same name and MUCH easier than trying to read/download the worksheets and conversations from the website.

The instructor is superb. She answers questions very promptly. The topics and interviews are also very good..However, this it the last course, in any subject , that I will ever take that does not also have a book. Without a book, one can only work / study while sitting in front of the monitor. I can't go outside, read in the sun -or the shade. I can't sit in an easy chair elsewhere, I can't read in bed. Only in front of the monitor. this is HUGE disadvantageIf tht weren't bad enough, it is very, very difficult to go back to review material in the previous lesson, even within the same chapter. AND one does not have a hard copy of the course on hi bookshelf that he can browse through from time to time.... "Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

This book is amazing

A wonderful addition.

Terrible binding, 'book' falls apart right away, better off downloading from the edx and saving the money.