This book is designed to accompany the Italian online course "Italian Language and Culture: Beginner" on the edX platform. However, much of the content of this book, such as grammar charts, explanations and examples, as well as readings and texts of interviews with native speakers, will be of certain interest to any beginner learner of Italian. In this book you will find the following material accompanied by a table of contents and an index: -Grammar explanations, examples and charts -Ciak videos (texts in Italian and Italian with English translation) -"Letture" (readings in Italian and Italian with English translation) -"Interviste" (interviews in Italian and Italian with English translation) -Vocabulary charts Consider purchasing the other two books in this series: Italian Language and Culture: Intermediate ISBN-13: 978-1523638901 Italian Language and Culture: Advanced ISBN-13: 978-1523648788