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Hide This Italian Book (Hide This Book) (English and Italian Edition)

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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!

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!

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.

This book is a lot of fun. It's got some interesting words and phrases for those who are just learning the language. But, it's even more fun to use the items learned in this book to throw off your Italian speaking friends who don't think you know "slang" or other custom Italian phrases.

A fun book with some great tips on phrases you don't see in all the guidebooks-