Hide This Italian Book (Hide This Book) (English and Italian Edition) [Paperback]

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ISBN-10: 9812466533 | ISBN-13: 978-9812466532 | Publication Date: January 1, 2006 | Edition: Bilingual

It's not the Italian you learned in high school. Learn the lingo on love, sex, extreme sports, fashion, gossip, partying and much more. Also exposed in "Hide This Book" are hilarious mishaps, social trends, and cool cultural features. Thermometers indicate how “hot” language is, so you know when an expression is totally offensive, completely inappropriate and downright nasty! Hear the foreign language online, or download the audio to you iPod® or MP3 player. Entertaining as well as enlightening, this is one language reference you'll enjoy reading cover to cover.

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“…Things you might really want to say and…need to say…hip, young, and irreverent.” – Chicago Tribune Online
“…an utter delight for the hip traveler.” – New York Daily News

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In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Hide This; Bilingual edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English, Italian
• ISBN-10: 9812466533
• ISBN-13: 978-9812466532
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 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 Best Sellers Rank: #238,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Dena M. Martin "Dena" (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hide This Italian Book (Hide This Book) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

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!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

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

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This review is from: Hide This Italian Book (Hide This Book) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

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!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

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This review is from: Hide This Italian Book (Hide This Book) (English and Italian Edition) (Paperback)

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.