Mi diverto con Gianluigi!

I mentioned I am on an email listserv for Italian teachers. Something about the following email, which I received from the group this morning, just makes me laugh:

Edizioni Farinelli has published a new Italian reader Mi diverto con Gianluigi! (translation: I have fun with Gianluigi) for beginning-level students. The illustrated, 62-page text tells the story of a delightful southern Italian boy through the eyes of an American Italian teacher who visited his town, Fornelli (Molise), during summers. The reader has 10 units each with a dialogue or narrative, accompanying exercises for comprehension, speaking and conversation and a vocabulary chart.

Mi diverto con Gianluigi! was written by Bruna Petrarca Boyle, a lecturer in Italian at the University of Rhode Island.

Mi diverto con Gianluigi! is $16.95. A separate answer key is available to teachers for $6.00 Other readers available from Edizioni Farinelli include Diario della studentessa Jean (Levels 1-2); Jean e Roscoe vanno a Perugia (Level 2); Uffa! (Level 3), and Non soltanto un baule (Level 4-5).

For more information and to order visit www.edizionifarinelli.com