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Drive Time: Italian (CD): Learn Italian While You Drive (LL(R) All-Audio Courses) | 
| Author: Living Language
Publisher: Living Language
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $14.93
You Save: $7.02 (32%)
Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 22030
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Book and Cassette
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400021839
Dewey Decimal Number: 458
EAN: 9781400021833
Publication Date: May 17, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Now anyone can learn a foreign language while commuting to work, running errands, or even taking a trip with the family. The new all-audio Drive Time series starts with an ingenious “On-Ramp” CD that eases language learners into Spanish, French, Italian, or Japanese with simple, practical expressions and engaging warm-up exercises. Three additional CDs contain 18 lessons that cover all of the essentials—vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and basic conversation.
Drive Time also includes a 64-page reference guide for anyone who would like to see spellings or read dialogues as a review—from the passenger seat, of course!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 1st CD is GREAT - Better know Italian from 2nd disc on or you'll be LOST !!! November 5, 2006
52 out of 52 found this review helpful
This my first review on Amazon but I was compelled to write based on my experience with this course. The first CD is fantastic. It starts off slow and gives you a solid foundation to build upon as you move from lesson to lesson. Within a few weeks of driving back and forth to work I had mastered all the lessons on the CD and could easily translate the English phrases in the final review lesson into Italian. I was confident and had a good grasp on building sentences and nuances such as how words changed when the subject was masculine or feminine. My opinion is that most people write their review based on the first CD.
And then I put in the second CD. I thought there was some mistake, as if I had switched to a completely different Italian course. The slow, clear speaking narrators were gone and replaced with fast talking Italians who didn't repeat anything, and certainly didn't give you time to repeat in the pause. The assumption appeared to be that I already understood the language and this was merely a refresher course. Within ten minutes I knew this was no longer the course for me. I listened to the entire second CD just in case this was all a joke and at some point they would slow down and actually help me learn Italian. No such luck! I have gone back to using the first CD for practice while I wait for the Pimsleur Italian course to arrive.
 Learn Italian While You Drive August 18, 2005
48 out of 48 found this review helpful
This CD set is excellent! I recently took a semester of beginning Italian and this tape serves to reinforce what I've learned as well as prepare me for the next level course. What's great about it is I get more practice speaking Italian and hearing Italian as well as training my ear to hear native Italian speakers which is immensely different from what you hear in a classroom setting. I recommend this set to anyone wanting to improve on their speaking the Italian language and sustaining their knowledge of the language between subsequent course taking.
Pretty good starter course June 3, 2005
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
The entire playing time of this set is 4 hours, so the time is fairly limited. There are a pretty good amount of words introduced and the speakers are very good - they enunciate well.
I think there could have been more exercises, that would be my only gripe, plus it's a little bit overpriced in my opinion (around $15). The booklet that comes with it is good and covers all the words learned on the disks.
Great fun during commute January 15, 2007
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I've had this CD for about 2 weeks now. My husband and I got this to prepare for our trip to Italy in a couple months. He is a native Spanish speaker and I was a minored in Spanish in college. Knowing Spanish has really come to our advantage in learning Italian. We have been listening to this everyday in the car without any radio or music. It's so fun to learn that sometimes we find ourselves taking the longer route home so we can listen to more of the lessons.
CD1 was basic, but still very challenging. We listened to the CD1 for about a week. The key is to listen to the lessons over and over again. We must have listened to each lesson at least 10 times to make it really sink in. You learns pronunciations, colors, basic vocabulary and a lot of feminine/masculine grammar rules.
CD2 was quite a shock since the Italian is spoken at a much faster pace. It covers more everday conversational Italian that you would find in a restaurant or the airport as well as the alphabet and numbers. Again, the key is to repeat the lessons over and over again.
Just after 2 weeks, I feel that my husband and I have had good progress in learning Italian. With less than 8 weeks until our trip I am confident that we can get by on the basic Italian that we have learned.
 Whiplash! February 21, 2007
25 out of 29 found this review helpful
The first CD was clearly geared to those of us with no former Italian language skills . . . okay, perhaps "ciao." Played first CD numerous times and felt confidence growing and picked up words and small phrases. Nice!
CD two: Whoa! What happened to that slow beginners pace? Suddenly the repetition has vanished and the sentences are flying by! Whiplash!
CD Three: Forgetaboutit. The pace of this CD is sucking my head back against the headrest and my cheeks are pressed into my ears! Entire conversations are rushing by and I don't know which tenses go with which adjectives. Are we still learning Italian for beginners?
CD Four: Don't wanna know. Am still trying to adjust my cervical collar. Big waste of money for us.
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