Decent but Italian Spoken Too Quickly

Pimsleur has a nice method here. Much better than Berlitz. I just can't get through how quickly the Italian is presented on the CDs. Because of this major drawback, I prefer
Behind the Wheel Italian which has slower pronunciation by the Italian speaker and is much easier to learn from. Learn in Your Car is also good, but again, too fast for me.
Still, Italian Instant Conversation is decent if you supplement with a good Italian course like Behind the Wheel.

Audio and Visual learners.

I think the course is great for audio learners. I realized about halfway through the course when I was becoming frustrated with the speed of the conversations, it is because as an artist, I'm a very visual learner. After I do some visual homework, this course will be more useful to me. Ask yourself before buying it, am I an audio or visual learner.

Great program

I went to Italy on a study abroad program and I am a firm believer in learning some of the language before visiting. Therefore I purchased this CD program to listen to in my car. It was extremely helpful in some areas, others not so much. I felt this program was more towards those who plan on having long, pronouned contact with others. It tells you how to ask people if they want to go eat something with you and where. I was hoping for more of airport language, what to say in a resturant or hotel. Still, this helped greatly because even though I was not going to ask someone "do you want to eat dinner at my place", I picked up on some of the words.

The best part of this CD is it helped me a TON with my dialect and my accent. The things I did know how to say, I said well and many times people thought I spoke fluent Italian (until I got a blank look on my face as they spoke to me).

I highly reccomend this CD to anyone but also, I would buy a Italian dictionary as well! It is wonderful hearing the language but seeing the words are very important too!!
A definite bargain for the knowledge you will gain!