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How to use the audio app

All the numbered exercises in each your 15-minute lessons using the book
lesson, apart from the Warm-ups at only, and then go back and work with
the beginning and the Say it exercises the audio and the book together,
at the end, have recorded audio, available repeating the text in the gaps provided
via a free app. The app also includes a and then recording yourself. Or you can
function to record yourself and listen combine the book and the audio right
to yourself alongside native speakers. from the beginning, pausing the app to
To start using the audio with the read the instructions on the page as you
book, first download the DK 15 Minute need to. Try to say the words aloud, and
Language Course app on your smart– practice enunciating properly. Detailed
phone or tablet from the App Store or instructions on how to use the app are
Google Play. Open the app and scan the available from the menu bar in the app.
QR code on the back of this book to add Remember that repetition is vital
it to your Library. As soon as the QR code to language learning. The more
is recognized, the audio will download. often you listen to a conversation or
There are two ways in which you can repeat an oral exercise, the more the
use the audio. The first is to read through language will sink in.
Menu, Help/How
to Use, Your Library
ITALIAN 1 Getting started ITALIAN 2 Lessons week
The list of weeks by week
will open when L’ora e i numeri Each numbered
Time and Numbers
the audio has been exercise in a lesson
downloaded. From is listed in the app
here you can tap into as it appears in the
each week’s lessons. book. Tap on an
exercise to start.
When all the lessons A check mark
in a week have been indicates when
completed, the week an exercise has been
button will be filled completed.
with color and
show a check mark,
so you can track
your progress.

3 Audio for ITALIAN 4 Record yourself ITALIAN
exercises
When you are in
Tap the play button L’ora e i numeri the Your recordings L’ora e i numeri
Time and Numbers
Time and Numbers
to hear instructions, screen, you can
then the exercise. record yourself
You can pause the reading the words or
audio at any point, l’una participating in the l’una
one o’clock
one o’clock
and return to it. l’una e cinque conversations with l’una e cinque
five past one five past one
l’una e un quarto native speakers, then l’una e un quarto
quarter past one listen back (and quarter past one
l’una e venti rerecord if desired). l’una e venti
twenty past one twenty past one
You can tap any l’una e mezzo l’una e mezzo
part of the exercise half past one Add recording half past one
le due meno un quarto
le due meno un quarto
to play the audio quarter to two quarter to two
from that point. le due meno dieci Play recording le due meno dieci
ten to two
ten to two