The story in short: Verona is the city of the most celebrated lovers in the history of literature: Romeo and Juliet. But Verona is also the city of the Arena, the world known opera stage. It is here that the famous opera singer Eva Tanzi will make her long-awaited comeback, in the role of Aida. Annika will also take part in the event... but she won't be only singing. The book also contains several entertaining exercises, which will help you learn faster: "Read & Learn", Focus on Grammar, Solutions, Dossiers 1 + 2

Annika and her boyfriend Andrea spend a couple of days in Venice, one of the most romantic cities in the world. They attend a ball during the famous Venetian carnival. The evening among famous and influential guests carries on like a fairy tale for the young British girl. But a sudden death spoils the mood. What has happened and why? Annika will try to solve the mystery. The book also contains several entertaining exercises, which will help you learn faster: "Read & Learn", Focus on Grammar, Solutions, Dossiers 1 + 2 More crime novels and tourist guides through italy by Alessandra Barabaschi: "The War of the Roman Cats" (Level A1), "The Theft of Aida" (B1), "The Lost Stradivari" (B2)

The story in short: Annika, a young girl, is living in Rome in order to learn Italian. She shares a flat with her friend Francesca in Largo Argentina. This square is famous for the stabbing of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar and also because of the many cats living there today. An old woman takes care of those little felines. One day Annika notices that the old lady is wearing an expensive ring. A few days later the body of the woman is recovered from the Tiber river. Annika does not believe it was an accident and begins to investigate. The book also contains several entertaining exercises, which will help you learn faster: "Read & Learn", Focus on Grammar, Solutions, Dossiers 1 + 2

It's true that some people spend years studying German before they finally get around to speaking the language. But here's a better idea. Skip the years of study and jump right to the speaking part. Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. Unlike most traditional language courses that try to teach you the rules of German, #LanguageHacking shows you how to learn and speak German through proven memory techniques, unconventional shortcuts and conversation strategies perfected by one of the world's greatest language learners, Benny Lewis, aka the Irish Polyglot. Using the language hacks -shortcuts that make learning simple - that Benny mastered while learning his 11 languages and his 'speak from the start' method, you will crack the language code and exponentially increase your language abilities so that you can get fluent faster. It's not magic. It's not a language gene. It's not something only "other people" can do. It's about being smart with how you learn, learning what's indispensable, skipping what's not, and using what you've learned to have real conversations in German from day one. The Method #LanguageHacking takes a modern approach to language learning, blending the power of online social collaboration with traditional methods. It focuses on the conversations that learners need to master right away, rather than presenting language in order of difficulty like most courses. This means that you can have conversations immediately, not after years of study. Each of the 10 units culminates with a speaking 'mission' that prepares you to use the language you've learned to talk about yourself. Through the language hacker online learner community, you can share your personalized speaking 'missions' with other learners - getting and giving feedback and extending your learning beyond the pages of the book . You don't need to go abroad to learn a language any more.

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

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"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi