Berlitz Hide This Italian Book (Italian Edition) (Paperback)

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"It ditches the strait-laced schoolmarm approach and starts rockin' from the first chapter." Chicago Tribune. "Flipping through the book is a joy... care has been taken to warn you which phrases are really crude and which are incredibly vulgar... It's a good tool for the inquisitive traveller to browse, and the gregarious traveller to carry in a pocket or bag on the way to the bar." About.com.

Product Description
This uncensored language guide has everything you need to speak real Italian - from cool lingo to hard-core insults. The book features phrases on love, sex, the body, partying, fashion, and extreme sports, as well as language used on the Internet, in text-messaging, email, and more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Berlitz Guides; Bilingual edition (July 30, 2005)
• Language: Italian
• ISBN-10: 9812466533
• ISBN-13: 978-9812466532
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #268,931 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What They Can't Teach You in School..., December 12, 2005

By	Dawn M. Best "Thinks She Knows What She is Ta... (USA?) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Any student of the Italian language is sure to get a rise out of "Hide This Book: Italian". As with the rest of the "Hide This..." series, this volume teaches those of us without a native tongue what (not) to say in the presence of normal society in Italy. It is as much for beginners as it is long-time bookbusters wishing to evade the inevitable social rebuttals of mispronunciation and assumed innocence of vocabulary. Not for children. Not to be passed up!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, January 1, 2006

By	Dena M. Martin "Dena" (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is indeed a fantastic little book. It contains all the colloquial Italian you could need for a short visit or even a long stay in Italy. I just returned from a langauge school in Rome and I wish I had this book with me. It's Italian as the natives speak it - not as they teach you in school. I found a lot of phrases I had to discover on my own from Italian friends.

One warning - If you are a complete beginner, this book does not contain pronunciation guides for the words/phrases. You'll want to supplement this with a beginning Italian text that includes basic pronunciation. Otherwise, this book is a dream!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty fun, October 30, 2007

By	Mary - See all my reviews

It helps to have had a little study on the language before visiting the country, so a semester of Italian plus this book REALLY WORKED OUT GOOD!!! I didn't use much fromt the shopping section but everything else was really useful and wortht he $! The only downsize is it gives you the correct italian spelling for italian phrases, but no english pronunciation key. Iyou don't already know how the italian alphabet works you won't know how to pronounce alot of the words right, but it wouldn't take much extra study with a normal phrasebook to learn that part.