The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Italian-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method) utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only 29 new words each. Audio tracks are available inclusive on www.audiolego.com/Italian/
This was gifted to me and the cover I have is different (and way nicer) than the goodreads edition options. I enjoyed the workbook style, but there were blatant errors in the translations, and half the stories were ridiculous.