The Beginner's Series is designed to meet the bilingual needs of the traveling businessperson, tourist, and student. These language lessons cover such common situations as: passing through customs, checking into a hotel, placing phone calls, going to the post office, and extending and accepting invitations. First learn about the country's history and culture, acquaint yourself with social customs, restaurant practices, and transportation systems. Then learn basic language skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and useful phrases that will have you communicating with natives and moving about feeely. Clear, easy to use, and insightful, the Beginner's Series will introduce you to the languages of the world.
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By mellie
Format:Paperback
Perfect, breaks eveything down so its easy to understand, also great because its written by a sicilian, its really helping me as my partners family are sivilian
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Caledonian77
Format:Paperback
Some of the most irrelevant sentences and conversations you will ever see in a language book. My girlfriend couldn't stop laughing at how bad it was as I read some of the book to her. If I hadn't just forked out the £8.99 I would probably have laughed more too.
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3.2 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A well-designed book for people who want to learn this lang.
17 Jan 1999
By A Customer
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Format:Paperback
This book is a really good book for a student or anyone traveling to Sicily because it teaches the person about its history and its language. The book has many information about Sicily's native food, an easy grammar, an easy vocabulary (because it's very similar to Italian), valuable information for tourists going there and much more.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
As a Sicilian, I Had High Hopes for This Book, But...
18 Feb 2002
By A Customer
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Format:Paperback
If you know nothing of Sicilian language, this book may help you pick up a little vocabulary. But as a Sicilian, and as a professional editor for 5 years, I have to say that I wouldn't look to this book for any definitive answer to anything.
There are typos everywhere you look, not to mention layout and formatting issues. Was an editor or proofreader -- or ANYONE -- ever employed to read this before it went to press? I'd be mortified as the author to see a book of mine published with such a disregard for content and style -- particularly since it's an educational book, and a language book to boot.
You may get some benefit from this book, simply because I have never seen another book on Sicilian out there, but that's where my recommendation stops.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book gives a good introduction to the Sicilian language
20 May 2000
By Johnny
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Format:Paperback
This book is not your typical language instruction book. It has a brief description of customs and culture, which is nice. However, the chapters often repeat themselves, so it could have been better organized into chapters that have distinct lessons and progressively get more complex (like most language books). This book stays at a fairly basic level throughout, however, it accomplishes its purpose, which is to give a taste of Sicilian.
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