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Italian Key Words (Oleander Key Words) Paperback – September 26, 2013

by Gianpaolo Intronati (Author)
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Quickly Master Basic Italian by Building a Practical Vocabulary Fast!

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* The Pareto Principle: Learn only 2000 words to know 10,000
* First 500 words provides 75% common usage
* Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary grows

Italian Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic Italian. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily.

One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each.

Learn Italian quickly and simply.

These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework:

The first 500 words account for 75% of normal conversational usage. The full 2,000 words will equip you for nearly all word occurrences in modern Italian usage in speech, newspapers, books, television etc.

Also provides an all-in-one basic Italian-English dictionary and an All-in-one basic English-Italian Dictionary.

The perfect aid - to learn Italian by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand.

Italian Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence in modern usage - in one hundred simple units.

The book is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of a million words and consists of a list of the commonest two thousand key words in Italian, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency.

The benefits of using Key Words:

Enjoy Italian immediately: you'll rapidly start to understand text media such as newspapers, magazines and the internet alongside television and radio.
Understand native Italian speakers: you'll quickly know the words most likely to be used around you.
Keep your enthusiasm: you’ll discover motivation increases with each easily-learnt unit.
Learn Italian effortlessly: you’ll learn bite-sized chunks that will remove the headache from learning a new language.
Sound more natural in Italian: rapid recognition of words allows you to copy the perfect accent.

A simple, fast, proven way to learn Italian with ease.
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  3. Language
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    September 26, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.34 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
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  7. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oleander Press, The (September 26, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0906672252
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0906672259
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.34 x 9 inches
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  • Keys 2 The Universe 🔑
    5.0 out of 5 stars love this
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    Very well written. Concise, clear to the point, and very informative. It was more than I expected to be honest, and I will keep using this as I learn.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect but useful.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
    Very useful vocabulary. Used in conjunction with other resources helps immensely.
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    Some spelling errors but otherwise a useful book.
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  • T. Kelly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017
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    Excellent way to keep up my vocabulary review.
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  • John Niles
    1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
    This is a stripped down dictionary. If you like memorizing word lists, knock yourself out
    6 bucks down the drain
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  • Careful consumer
    5.0 out of 5 stars excellent resource!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2022
    so useful for students of Italian-I am finding it invaluable. It was also great to rec'v a pdf version of the book (which I purchased for my kindle). Will be using it again and again.
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  • H. Martin
    4.0 out of 5 stars An very nearly Excellent Resource
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2004
    I highly recommend this if you are serious about learning the language -- or one of the other languages in the series.

    [Based on the Spanish and Arabic versions]

    The series is expensive since it must be ordered-shipped from Europe. -MINUS ONE STAR

    Caveat: The Arabic version uses not only transliteration but one of the WORST transliteration schemes ever devised (e.g., treating d-D, h-H, t-T, ain-hemza, th-TH, s-S as one letter each). (I took of an additional star on the Arabic review).

    BUT, I typed them into the free Pauker flashcards (SourceForge.Net) and then learn(ed) the most common 2000 words in the language -- along with my OTHER studies in the language this really speeds up comprehension.
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  • Mark
    5.0 out of 5 stars A daily tool for yours truly
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2018
    In my current quest to become fluent in Italian, I am using this book on a daily basis. First studying a page of key words; then copying them into an Anki app (integrating spaced-repetition learning approach); and reviewing them several times a day. Fantastic way to quickly be shown the most common words used in the language. Thanks for this excellent resource!
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  • DJ3Sixteen
    5.0 out of 5 stars The easiest and best way to memorise the Italian language.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2015
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    I've been told that knowing 1000 words gives you 90% comprehension in any language, hence my purchase of this book, which is 2000 words. The text is arranged in 100 units of 20 words each - the 20 most popular words followed by the next 20, and so on, with a concluding overview on grammar basics and both Italian & English reference sections. It's a slim book, which makes it far less daunting. It does away with cheesy 'In the restaurant' scenarios with fake conversations, and just gives you the WORDS, in a form that's easy to assimilate and remember.

    Just memorising the first five units (100 words) ought to give you 50% comprehension of the Italian language, and the first 25 units (500 words total) should, in theory, give you 75% comprehension. The Author cheats a tiny bit by listing a verb as one word, even though it's actually six, but so what? It's still the best book I've found, and I hope there are similar books for other languages too! Spanish next, I reckon...

    My biggest stumbling block to learning a language isn't grammar or pronunciation. It's the actual memorisation of the individual words. This book as been a BIG help, and I have no hesitation in recommending it to any Italophiles reading this!
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  • Linda Kitching
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2016
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    very informative for beginner
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    Completely and utterly useless. Waste of time.
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  • Customer Review
    3.0 out of 5 stars Great concept, lacking in execution
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2012
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    A book providing the most frequent words used in a language is potentially one of the most helpful aids you could have when learning a language. I have previously used Latin Key Words in this series, and this Italian one suffers from some of the same drawbacks I have listed there - indeed it is probably a little worse than the Latin volume in some respects.

    So by giving il/la/lo ('the'), lo/la ('he', 'she'), ragazzo/ragazza, bambino/bambina etc. as separate entries which should really have been given together, the book is in effect padding out and reducing on the 2000 words.

    It is said that everyday English uses around 4000 words. Whether the same applies in other languages I don't know, but 2000 words, which when taking into account the aforementioned issue will be less, doesn't seem quite enough.

    I think for this work to be a genuinely great learning aid it needs more and better arranged content. That's not to say don't buy it. It will indeed be useful to the learner and I would recommend beginners to get it to assist in speeding progress by building a vocabulary of common words, but it's not as useful as it could have been.
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  • Mrs J Lasiri
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - buy buy buy
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2023
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    What a find. Finally something that is super helpful from those of us that wish to learn Italian. Thank you for making this book! LOVE
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