Frommer's Italian PhraseFinder & Dictionary (Frommer's Phrase Books)
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Editor: Maureen ClarkeEdition: Paperback
Audio: Italian (Original Language); English (Original Language); Italian (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-03
ISBN: 047177331X
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Frommer's
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Book Review: Not useful for me
Summary: 2 Stars
My husband and I just spent 17 days in Italy, in both cities and less-touristy areas. We interacted with speakers of fluent English and those with no English at all. I had faithfully practiced the three-month Pimsleur Speak and Read CD course before we left, so my husband relied on my for almost all our interactions. This book never got used during the trip.
It's not that my Italian was so good -- far from it. We were constantly looking up words in our Petite Larousse, or coming up with creative ways to say what we meant when I couldn't remember a word. I found this book's organization completely useless, though, and the process of searching for the right phrase quickly was a nuisance. It was much faster to just look up a specific word in the dictionary, and work with that, rather than thumb through for the right phrase while the kind (or impatient!) Italian waited.
The only (slight) saving grace of this book was the section on dating and picking people up at bars. We never tried out any of the phrases ("you smell nice" or "do you have a condom?"), but we had a hoot back at the hotel room reading through that section. But if you need those phrases, maybe you'd be better off looking them up online and memorizing them, rather than interrupting your, ah, hunting to flip through a book.
Summary of Frommer's Italian PhraseFinder & Dictionary (Frommer's Phrase Books)
Find the right words fast.Practical and easy to use, Frommer's Italian PhraseFinder & Dictionary helps you experience a place the waythe locals do--by speaking the same language.
* More than 5,000 words and phrases
* Phrases organized by topic and dictionary entry for easy use on the go
* A two-way dictionary cross-referenced to verb conjugations and the most common phrases
* Detailed pronunciation guide and slang terms to help you sound more like a local
* A two-way menu translator, basic grammarinformation, and more
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