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Italian Fast Course
The Italian Familiarization and Short-term Training Course (FAST) consistsof thirty lessons that have been prepared with accompanying tape recordings.
Designed for use with an Italian instructor, the course has as its main objective to enable students to develop /anguage skills considered basic and usefu/ in Italy.
Instead of a structured, grammatically-sequenced set of lessons, the course stresses communication in everyday practical situations of a social, /ogistica/ and workplace nature.
Students are urged to use whatever language they have at their disposal without being unduly preoccupied with grammatical accuracy. They should makethis ettort even in situations in which they are exposed to practica/ /anguage considerab/y above their level. They shou/d remember that they must /earn to cope with such /anguage but not reproduce it.
Before Lesson I, study three importa n t sections:
1. “Lesson Introduction, “
2. “Before We BeginIl(a section dea/ing with Spelling – Pronunciation features and useful classroom expressions), and a
3. Preliminary Lesson (greetings and salutations).
Interspersed among lessons are:
(a) usefu/ intormation about the different administrative regions of Ita/y [trom lessons I through XX} and (b) recipes ot regiona/ltalian dishes [trom /essons XXI through XXX].
Additional intormation is provided in appendices tollowing Lesson XXX:
Appendix A – Grammatical Tab/es
Appendix B – Answers to Reading Exercises
Appendix C – Household Expressions
Appendix D – Other Information
Following the appendices are:
Index A – Language/Usage Notes
Index 8 – Glossary for Recipes.
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