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Learn to speak Italian in hours, not yearsWhen it comes to learning Italian it doesn’t get easier than the Michel Thomas Method. The Michel Thomas method eases you into the Italian language by breaking it into its component parts. You will then be able to easily form your own sentences depending on what you want to say in Italian! Go from absolute beginner to confident speaker—without books, homework or memorizing.The Michel Thomas Method audio course helps you pick up the Italian language naturally, at your own pace. It teaches you Italian through your own language, building it up, step by step in ‘real-time’ conditions.About the Italian languagePresent day Italian is a relatively new language; Italy became a nation only in 1867, and even as recent as fifty years ago, many Italians only spoke their own regional language or dialect. Italy is still divided into regions. However nowadays everyone in Italy is able to speak standard Italian. Apart from in Italy itself, Italian speakers can be found in the Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland, and in a few areas of Slovania and Croatia and of course in all countries to which Italians have emigrated. Unlike English, which has several different ways of pronouncing the same combination of letters, Italian pronunciation is easy. Once you know the rules you can’t really go wrong!