Dictionary of Italian Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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Summary: I loved it...
Review: Even though it did not have an English to Italian section as one reviewer complained, I still found this book to be very entertaining and informative. It is chock full of useful colloquialisms and it was a nice break from the usual "high school" type Italian one usually learns from instructional language books. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a love for the language even if you aren't yet fluent in it.

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Summary: x.o.
Review: Most of the reviews I see here are incredibly bizzare!! People critiquing the book as if it were a serious language dictionary, complaining it's only english to italian etc.! The book is meant to entertain with all kinds of slang terms, most a little dirty or crazy. Very, very entertaining it is!. Check it out - especially if you already know some italian and can read the phrases aloud to your friends with gusto! It's hialrious

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Summary: Lots of words, but no English to Italian Section
Review: This book is great if you can hear Italian natives speak, and actually understand what they have said, otherwise it's useless with no English to Italian section. Sure you can pick a random word and find out what it means in English but who wants to do that?

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Summary: This book is hilarious!!!!!!!
Review: This book is sooooo funny even though it's not english-italian. The is books has all of the perverted comments made about ("THINGS"). I'm sure you'll love this book.

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Summary: This book is hilarious!!!!!!!
Review: This book is sooooo funny even though it's not english-italian. The is books has all of the perverted comments made about ("THINGS"). I'm sure you'll love this book.

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Summary: Non Italiano Mio (Not My Italian)
Review: This is a very nice book that serves as a delightful and often humorous introduction into colloquial Italian. However, I suspect this book cites the Italian of Italy - the pennisula and not that of Sicily or Sardenia - dialects that would appear to be distinct languages in and of themselves. I say this because my grand parents came from Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy. This book DOES NOT list of any the expressions or words I heard growing up, which were used by my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and assorted friends and relatives.

The book is easy to read, but it lacks the accents and euphemistic twists put on the words by locals as have come from Calabria, Sicily, Basilicata, Naples in the Campania and other wonderul regions. Italy as a nation is lest than 200 years old. Thus so, the language varies from region to region like the cooking. I have heard many wonderful dialects by Italians from New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles from people who came from various parts of the mainland. But I have not found much of what I heard in this book. The book educates those who are not of Italian or Sicilian descent on some expressions of the old country, but to someone like me who grew up with Italians, it is not thorough.