logo for italianlanguagesecrets.com
Home
Blog
E-book
Learning Revolution
Mind Maps
Memory techniques
Parallel Reading
Audiobook
Flash Cards
Grazie

Subscribe To This Site
XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines
leftimage for italianlanguagesecrets.com

Parallel readings: the secret of the Italian language is also a bilingual book (Italian and English)

Why is a bilingual book important for you to have?

Because you can read Italian and your mother tongue language at the same time. That is what usually parallel readings let you do.

Of course, you should concentrate on the Italian side of the page, but it it is known that your inconscious mind, which is much more powerful of your conscious mind, will browse through the English version of the page.

And this will happen even if you don't want to.

If you are an absolute beginner, having a bilingual book will help you feel confortable to start learning how to learn the language.

After all the secrets of the Italian language is a book about how to learn Italian in an easy and fun way.

On the home page of the secret of the Italian language website, you will find an excerpt of the first pages from the book. You can also download them.

Here you have another little excerpt, just to let you see how the fact that you have both languages in the same page work.

Le preposizioni

Prepositions

 

Framework

Do you know what my students say to me when we start to study prepositions?

"Oh no, they're impossible!" And I say: "You are right.

The prepositions are the first real hurdle of the Italian language.

However, try to think about them in a
different light.

Imagine them as small rocks on which
there are five stars and three sea urchins”.

 They look at me in total surprise and then I show them this picture above and they all start to laugh or smile.

Prepositions are the small words inside the stars and sea urchins.

Italian children learn them using a nursery
rhyme where they chant them altogether in one long word:
 

diadainconsupertrafra.

Let's break this down for you: di, a, da, in, con, su, per, tra, fra.

It is difficult to give meaning to a
phrase without prepositions.

You could say: “I go school”. But to give meaning to the phrase you need to
complete it by saying: “I go to school".

Struttura

Sapete cosa dicono i miei studenti quando
cominciamo a studiare le preposizioni?

“Mamma mia
che ostacolo!”. E io dico: “Avete ragione.

Le preposizioni sono il primo vero ‘scoglio’ della lingua italiana.

Guardatele, però, da un altro punto di vista.
 

Immaginatele come un piccolo scoglio su cui ci sono cinque stelline e tre ricci di mare”.

 Mi guardano stupiti e poi faccio vedere loro il disegno qui sopra (o sotto). E
tutti si mettono a sorridere o a ridere.

 Le preposizioni sono quelle piccole parole all’interno delle stelle e dei ricci.

Per i bambini italiani sono quelle nella cantilena imparata per ricordarle:

 

diadainconsupertrafra.

Per voi sono: di, a, da, in, con, su, per, tra, fra.

Senza questi elementi non si può in molti casi dare un senso alla frase.

Potreste dire: “io vado scuola”. Ma per
dare un senso completo alla frase dovete dire: “io vado a scuola”.

Do you want more? Discover

The Secrets of the Italian Language

 


 

BUY NOW!

The book will be available only for little time

at only € 12,90

plus little shipping costs!

or BUY the EBOOK!

Immediate download!

Check  reviews on

 

Permalink to the secrets of the Italian language home page

Permalink to Mind maps and learning preferences

Permalink to The learning revolution and Italian Accelerated Learning

Permalink to Flash cards and Italian

Permalink to  Italian audiobooks

Permalink to Memory techniques and Italian vocabulary

Permalink to Parallel reading or bilingual books