Parliamo italiano!, 5th Edition
A Communicative Approach
Parliamo italiano! offers a communicative, culture-based approach for beginning students of Italian. In addition to the four skills—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—Parliamo italiano! has made the fifth skill of cultural competency an integral part of learning Italian. Instead of taking for granted that students will assimilate cultural information while studying language, we have made cultural competency one of our primary goals.