<p><b>Sharpen your Italian language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture</b></p> <p><i>Better Reading Italian</i> offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Italian vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.</p><p><i>Better Reading Italian</i> is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.</p>