Italian Audio Flash Cards

Interested in an easy way to improve your Italian vocabulary? Want to listen to Italian and work on your pronunciation at the same time? The Acquerello Italiano program has Italian audio flash cards to complement their audio magazine. Flash cards used to be those index cards with simple words written on them that you used to learn vocabulary. Now, they've been updated for the 21st-century.

Magazine With Transcript
Acquerello Italiano is a subscription-based audio magazine produced entirely in Italy by professional broadcasters and journalists. Developed for intermediate to advanced Italian speakers, each edition comes on CD or cassette and is packed with news items, interviews with famous people, and features on Italian life and culture. Each audio magazine consists of an hour-long program in Italian on audio CD or cassette.

The basic subscription includes a 70-page printed pocket-size magazine containing a word-for-word transcript, extensive glossary and background notes. In addition to translations into English of interesting and difficult words and phrases, the glossary contains extensive biographical, historical, political, and cultural notes prepared by experienced editors.

Study Guide Aids Italian Comprehension
The Acquerello Italiano audio magazine subscription can also be augmented with an optional study guide. For the individual learner who needs a bit of extra help, language teaching experts have developed a separate self-marking study guide to accompany each edition of the program. Each study supplement booklet includes post- and pre-listening exercises as well as grammar drills.

Italian Audio Flash Cards
Flash cards are produced for each issue of Acquerello Italiano and comprise approximately 100 words and phrases from the main program. Native Italian speakers record these words and pause long enough for you to have an opportunity to repeat them. A spoken English translation follows, so that you can be sure of not just the pronunciation of the words, but their English meanings as well. After all 100 words have been presented, the order is reversed, this time speaking the English words first and giving you a chance to say the Italian word or phrase, so you can check how much you've learned. A listing of the words and their translations are included in the transcript booklet.

One of the advantages of the Italian audio flash cards is context—each word corresponds to a term or phrase found in one of the various articles, interviews, and features of that particular issue, so that the word will be encountered again. This combination—the audio magazine, transcript and glossary, study supplement plus audio flash cards, makes for a rich synergy of learning materials guaranteed to improve your comprehension of Italian and increase your understanding of the language.