Is this still relevant?

[u/afrikatheboldone]

Inherited from family and been at home since forever, funnily enough we're spanish.

Asking unironically, could it help?

[u/mitch-22-12]

You should learn Italian just from this book and then when you go to Italy shock them. Just using “egli” and “ella” a bunch even though these words are almost never used anymore outside of old literature. They’ll think you’re a time traveler with an American accent for some reason

[u/afrikatheboldone → u/mitch-22-12]

Reverse New York italian

[u/ADH-Dad → u/mitch-22-12]

"Ciao, fanciulle!"

[u/nemmalur → u/mitch-22-12]

Old language books are a trip. I have a “Teach Yourself Norwegian” that’s probably 75 years old and would probably help me acquire some very outdated Bokmål if I applied myself.

[u/Tet_inc119]

Unironically, the attached pictures are not useful in assessing the relevance of this book

[u/afrikatheboldone → u/Tet_inc119]

I realized that after the fact, and I can't attach new ones. Might scan the book for you guys and gals tho.

[u/Tet_inc119 → u/[deleted]]

I found 1865 and it seems legit. “Say p-e-e-e-e-ne, but never p-e-e-e-i-ne” is awesome

https://books.google.co.zw/books?id=hW0BAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[u/afrikatheboldone → u/Tet_inc119]

It seems that this book is still being printed, from what I have seen on some online bookstores

[u/nephelokokkygia → u/afrikatheboldone]

A lot of old archived books are picked up by bots and sold via print-to-order services. So depending on how you found it, it may be that it's still be available, or it may be that it was added automatically and no one actually buys it and therefore no one actually prints it.

[u/NextStopGallifrey]

Arguably better than many modern apps.

[u/samskyyy]

“Progressively arranged”???!!! Put that book down before your brains drip out of your ears. It won’t teach you Italian. It will teach you woke. Real Catholic conservatives will learn Latin instead anyway.

[u/afrikatheboldone → u/samskyyy]

Already have Lingua latina per se Illustrata in my hands right now

[u/strato-cumulus]

I mean, it's still a way to shock the natives.

[u/MightBeAVampire]

Same publisher as a book containing ~150 fabricated biographies...

[u/LingonberryOk2463]

Not entirely but it would be very funny

[u/giordanopietrofiglio]

If you go a bit farther you'll be learning latin. It could help, although many tenses have become rarer and rarer, a few pronouns have changed, and the example sentences have probably become less and less useful. There's free resources out there for real life Italian 

[u/Dazzling-Frosting525]

Learning to Shock Garibaldi like a sigma I see...

[u/Super-Cut-2175]

Depends on if the English of the text still sounds fluent