| Introduction | p. vii |
| Reviewing and Practicing the Basics | p. 1 |
| Italian Sounds and Spelling | p. 3 |
| Vowels | p. 3 |
| Single Consonants | p. 5 |
| Double Consonants | p. 9 |
| Stress | p. 10 |
| The Alphabet and Spelling Conventions | p. 11 |
| The Italian Sentence | p. 15 |
| The Italian Sentence | p. 15 |
| Affirmative and Negative Sentences | p. 18 |
| Interrogative and Emphatic Sentences | p. 20 |
| Other Types of Sentences | p. 22 |
| Culture Capsule 1 | p. 27 |
| Greeting and Being Polite | p. 27 |
| Reviewing and Practicing the Verbs | p. 29 |
| The Present Indicative | p. 31 |
| Conjugating Regular Verbs in the Present Indicative | p. 31 |
| Common Regular Verbs | p. 36 |
| Spelling Peculiarities | p. 39 |
| Main Uses | p. 44 |
| Essere and avere | p. 48 |
| Sapere and conoscere | p. 51 |
| Other Irregular Verbs | p. 54 |
| The Past Indicative | p. 67 |
| The Past Participle | p. 67 |
| The Present Perfect | p. 70 |
| The Imperfect | p. 76 |
| The Past Absolute | p. 82 |
| The Pluperfect | p. 91 |
| The Future and Conditional | p. 98 |
| The Simple Future | p. 98 |
| The Future Perfect | p. 108 |
| The Conditional | p. 110 |
| The Past Conditional | p. 119 |
| The Subjunctive | p. 124 |
| The Present | p. 124 |
| The Past | p. 134 |
| The Imperfect | p. 136 |
| The Pluperfect | p. 141 |
| Other Tenses and Forms | p. 148 |
| The Imperative | p. 148 |
| The Progressive Tenses | p. 156 |
| Reflexive Verbs | p. 163 |
| Verbs Like Dedurre and Porre | p. 173 |
| Indefinite Tenses | p. 177 |
| The Passive and Causative | p. 178 |
| Culture Capsule 2 | p. 185 |
| Traditions | p. 185 |
| Reviewing and Practicing the Other Parts of Speech | p. 187 |
| Nouns | p. 189 |
| Types of Noun | p. 189 |
| Gender | p. 191 |
| Number | p. 196 |
| Other | p. 203 |
| Articles and Partitives | p. 211 |
| Articles | p. 211 |
| Demonstratives | p. 218 |
| Partitives | p. 221 |
| Adjectives and Information Words | p. 228 |
| Descriptive Adjectives | p. 228 |
| Information Words | p. 234 |
| Possessive Adjectives | p. 237 |
| Indefinite Adjectives | p. 242 |
| Comparison of Adjectives | p. 244 |
| Pronouns | p. 251 |
| Subject | p. 251 |
| Object | p. 254 |
| Reflexive | p. 263 |
| Relative | p. 265 |
| Demonstrative and Possessive | p. 268 |
| Other Pronouns | p. 271 |
| Other Parts of Speech | p. 277 |
| Adverbs | p. 277 |
| Prepositions | p. 283 |
| Other Grammatical Points | p. 286 |
| Culture Capsule 3 | p. 290 |
| Cuisine | p. 290 |
| Special Topics | p. 291 |
| The Verb Piacere | p. 293 |
| Forms | p. 293 |
| Rule of Thumb | p. 297 |
| Expressing Likes and Dislikes | p. 299 |
| Similar Verbs | p. 300 |
| Idiomatic Expressions | p. 306 |
| Expressions with Avere | p. 306 |
| Expressions with Fare, Dare, and Stare | p. 308 |
| Miscellaneous Expressions | p. 310 |
| Numbers | p. 313 |
| Cardinal Numbers | p. 313 |
| Ordinal Numbers | p. 317 |
| Arithmetical Expressions | p. 319 |
| Telling Time | p. 322 |
| Hours | p. 322 |
| Minutes | p. 325 |
| Time Expressions | p. 326 |
| Dates and the Weather | p. 329 |
| Days, Months, and Seasons | p. 329 |
| Dates | p. 333 |
| The Weather | p. 335 |
| Conversation Techniques | p. 339 |
| Basic Conversation | p. 339 |
| Expressing Feelings | p. 344 |
| Speaking About Oneself | p. 345 |
| Synonyms, Antonyms, and Cognates | p. 349 |
| Synonyms | p. 349 |
| Antonyms | p. 352 |
| Cognates | p. 354 |
| Written Communication | p. 361 |
| Punctuation | p. 361 |
| Letter Writing | p. 363 |
| E-mails | p. 365 |
| Culture Capsule 4 | p. 368 |
| Geography | p. 368 |
| The Most Frequently Used Words and Expressions in Italian | p. 369 |
| Verb Charts | p. 378 |
| Answers | p. 395 |
| Index | p. 469 |
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