[Idyllchat] Italian phrase book?

[Pete and Maggie Haggart]

We picked up and used a lot a small pocket dictionary - English to Italian and Italian to English - that came in very handy when dealing with parking meters and such. It has a yellow cover and is called:

Langenscheidt's, Italian - English

It is available at most bookstores (Borders) and we actually got ours in an Italian bookstore!

Happy Traveling

Pete

Peter and Margaret Haggart
haggart at moscow.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry Clancy 
  To: David Wayland ; idyllchat at lists.untours.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Idyllchat] Italian phrase book?


  I think the Rick Steves recommendation is a good one. There is also the Marling Menu-Master for Italy which includes phrases but we found a dictionary faster for translating menus (partly because of the way the former is organized). 

  Cassell's (which makes the "bible" Italian-English Dictionary) has an interesting and inexpensive companion paperback called "Colloquial Italian - A Handbook of Idiomatic Usage" (ISBN 0-02-079440-1). It won't help you in real time but it does make for interesting reading. For example and to use a common phrase, it presents half a page on the usage of buon giorno and its variations (buona sera, buona notte, etc.) and when to use them. It's the kind of handbook you browse.

  Jerry


  At 07:59 PM 2/18/2008, David Wayland wrote:


    We're headed to South Tuscany in October.  Others have suggested taking an Italian phrase book.  Does anyone have any suggestions for a good one?  Thanks.  David Wayland




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