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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book and Dictionary
by
Rick Steves
From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter.
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
November 11th 2008
by Avalon Travel
(first published 1995)
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The Rick Steves series of language books are hard to beat. They're compact and jam-packed with information you can use no matter how sophisticated of a traveler you are. Here's some great words from the book:
Stoned - fatto
Penis - cazzo
Eye shadow - ombretto
Pussycat - gattino
condom - preservativo
This book's a wealth of Italian information. Great stuff!
Stoned - fatto
Penis - cazzo
Eye shadow - ombretto
Pussycat - gattino
condom - preservativo
This book's a wealth of Italian information. Great stuff!
Probably the best thing about this book was that it gave me courage to attempt speaking Italian on my trip. I've found that people in other countries really appreciate the effort to speak their language. Maybe that was something I read in "Europe Through the Back Door"?
I was not happy with this phrase book. I guess my background in foreign languages spoiled it for me. The pronunciation guide with its corny spelling was especially annoying and distracting. Words like "Kah-pree" -- really!
Plus there were no dialogues to give you a flavor of the language.
Obviously, there's a market for this book. But it's mythical to think you can learn this way.
I couldn't take this book. I went to the library and picked up a beginn...more
Plus there were no dialogues to give you a flavor of the language.
Obviously, there's a market for this book. But it's mythical to think you can learn this way.
I couldn't take this book. I went to the library and picked up a beginn...more
I still get such a kick out of this book. It's full of very useful, proper italian but it also has loads of slang & phrases for the not so ordinary traveler. Highly recommend
In my effort to not die a monolinguist, I'm teaching myself Italian, or at least conversational phrases. I carry this little jewel with me, in my purse.
I don't speak any Italian, so this guidebook was a bit of a lifesaver. I don't like to refer to books when I'm trying to experience the culture, but it was nice to be able to review this at the end of the day or in the morning before we started the day. I tried to learn a few important phrases and feel my way through the rest. We visited Venice, and most people in Venice do speak English. While I can confidently speak French, Italian is quite different (more akin to Spanish). I love the pro...more
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Fit in my cargo pants pocket and even taught me how to cuss the cab driver out in Italian when he is trying to rip us off.
very useful for menu translation and navigating trains
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Richard "Rick" Steves is an American author and television personality on European travel. He is the host of a public television series, and a public radio travel show, and the author of many travel guidebooks and autobiographies.
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