Italian for Educated Guessers: Shortcuts to the Language

This book is for students of Italian who enjoy the language but hate the drudgery of rote memorization. It is for people who have finished the equivalent of one semester of college Italian, and who have grappled with it sufficiently to be ready to see patterns in what was originally entirely foreign. CONTENTS: How to be an Educated Guesser * Cognates * Tenses * Irregular Verbs * Verb Families * Faking Out Irregular Past Participles * Popular Words and Phrases * Unfaithful Cognates * How to remember and make nouns from verbs * Effeminate Greek Masculines * The Imperative * Expressions of Time * The Subjunctive * Vocabulary