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Italian for Xenophobes

by Drew Launay

You will never need to fear another umlaut. Cedillas are things of the past and accents will never cause you acute or grave pain again. And dipthongs will belong on the beach. Speak like a native by speaking English.

Extracts from the book


How much more?
Quanto anchora?
(Koo an toe / an cor ah?)

I don't care if the ceiling is beautiful. I've got a crick in my neck.
No mi importa se il soffito e bellissimo, ho un dolore nel collo. darrhea.
(No / mee / eem port ah / say /eel / so fee toe / ay bell lee see mo. / Oh /oon / doe law / nell / collo.)

I love that simmering look in your eyes. Is it for me?
Amo quel profondo sguardo di desiderio nei tuoi occhi. E per me?
(Amo / coo el / pro fond oh / sk oo ah are doe / dee / des ee dare ee oh / nay ee / to ee oh / och ee. Ay / pair / may?)

I have been mugged and they have taken my:
Mi hanno rubato, hanno preso:
(Me / anno / roo bat oh / anno / press oh:)

Wallet
Porta fogli
(Porta / foe glee)

Plane ticket
Biglietto di aero
(Billy ay toe/ dee / air ee oh)

Everything I have in the whole wide world.
Tutto quello che honel mondo.
(Toot oh / coo ell oh / kay /ho nell / moondoe.)

I've got violent diarrhoea.
Ho una violenta diarrhea.
(Oh / oo na / vee oh lent ah /dee ah ray ah.)

Is there a lavatory on the same floor or at the bottom of the garden?
C'e un bagno sullo stesso piano, o giu nel giardino?
(Say / oon /ban ee oh / soo lo / stess oh / piano /oh / gee oo /nel gee are dee no?)


 
 

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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. I would never be without my Xenophobe's phrase book.
Accredited to Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)




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Author: Drew Launay
Sketches: Charles Hemming
Format: 64 pages, pb
Published: March 2006
Price: £3.99
ISBN-10 & ISBN-13: 1-903096-18-9


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