501 Italian Verbs by John Colaneri, Vincent Luciani Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 501 Italian Verbs
Book Review: FAVOLOSO!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a must have! Verbs can be so tricky when learning Italian...don't give up - this book will help you gain confidence in using the correct tense and you will be able to create sentences that will make actual sense!? E scusatemi se e' poco! In bocca al lupo a tutti. Comunque potevano aggiungere altri verbi...tutto sommato e' abbastanza buono!Book Review: Fits my needs well
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had this book for years and have always considered it an important part of my Italian language library.Book Review: Good...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm an Italian fifteen boy and I love foreign languages. I think Italian verbs are very difficult for english people, cos' verbs change during the coniugation (like: io vado, tu vai egli va, noi andiamo, voi andate, essi vanno). I think 501 verbs are a lot!
I've found an error in the ABBRONZARE pages. Don't say TI PIACE ABBRONZARE? but TI PIACE ABBRONZARTI? and it's wrong also NON ABBRONZARE TROPPO!, that's NON TI ABBRONZARE TROPPO!
It's a good support to every course.
Book Review: Indispensable
Summary: 5 Stars
The 500 verbs book is right there beside me, next to the dictionary when I read an Italian article or book, as a review for my next trip. I've learned Italian pretty well, but I must admit I didn't learn all the subjunctives, literary pasts, etc. The answers are here in these charts!Book Review: NO ACCENTS!
Summary: 3 Stars
Although this book covers in a thorough manner the various tenses and moods of most Italian verbs, it suffers from a serious flaw. Unlike Spanish, which has definite rules for marking the accent when it doesn't fall on the penult (the second to the last syllable), Italian has no such rules. In the case of the antipenult (third from the last) or the fourth from the last syllable, there is no way for the user of this book to know if these syllables are stressed. I recommend that in the next edition of this work that the authors indicate the stressed vowel using a bolded vowel. Consider the indicative present tense of the verb: abitare (to live, to dwell).abito abitiamo
abiti abitate
abita abitano
Since I don't have the capability to bold the vowels for this review, I can only point out that for the following three forms, abito, abiti, and abita, the accent is found on the antipenult. In the case of the form, abitano, the accent is found on the fourth from the last syllable.
This accent distribution holds for several other verbs as well, e.g., desiderare, indicare, etc.
There is absolutely no way for the user of this book to have a clue where the accent falls.
P.S. If anyone is interested in this, I just completed a grammar of the Sicilian language entitled Introduction to Sicilian Grammar. Since Sicilian verbs also share the problem of determining on which syllable the accent falls, I bolded the accented vowel to indicate proper pronunciation.