What They Didn't Teach You in Italian Class: Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More (Slang Language Books) - Softcover

Euvino, Gabrielle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646043960 ISBN 13: 9781646043965

Publisher: Ulysses Press, 2022

Synopsis

Learn all the Italian slang and up-to-date phrases you always wanted to know in this handy English-Italian phrasebook for modern travelers.

Sipping espresso at a sidewalk café...
Toasting a pint of birra in the piazza...
Cheering for Azzurri at lo Stadio Olimpico...

Drop the textbook formality and chat with the locals in Italy’s everyday language.

• What’s up? Che c’è?
• I’m so plastered. Sono demolito/a.
• Do you wanna cuddle? Vuoi coccolarci?
• Nice body! Che corpo!
• I’m friggin’ starving. Ho una fame da morti.
• Hey ref, you’re a moron! Arbitro cretino!

About this title

About the Authors

Gabrielle Euvino is an adjunct professor at SUNY Empire and instructor at SUNY Ulster, where she teaches Italian Language and Culture. She has authored several books on learning Italian and is a professional translator and interpreter.

Erin Coyne holds various degrees in Russian-related fields from Fordham University, Georgetown University, and UC Berkeley, where she is currently making depressingly slow progress on a PhD in Slavic Linguistics while teaching Russian classes on the side. In a former life, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer and later worked as an NGO program director which, for better or for worse, exiled her to nearly ten long years in the former Soviet Union. Her interests include yoga, long, alcohol-fueled train rides through Eastern Europe, and TV. Lots and lots of TV. In addition to English and Russian, Erin speaks six other languages with varying degrees of success.

Igor Fisun is a native of Kiev, Ukraine, which, in moments of nationalist pride, he prefers to spell 'Kyiv.' He is a former student of Kiev PTU, where he quickly abandoned all interest in ever holding down a real job and instead embarked upon a career in freelance engraving. His native languages are Russian and Ukrainian, and he hopes someday to learn English well enough to talk his way out of a traffic ticket. His interests include cooking, Japanese art, cheap wine, and pissing people off on internet forums. He is ridiculously proud of his orchid collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1646043960
• ISBN 13: 9781646043965
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184