American Italian Slang

Author : Anthony Longo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720666180

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American Italian Slang by Anthony Longo Pdf

AmericanItalian.net has enjoyed ten years of success as the definitive hub of the "pidgin language" developed by Italian immigrants to the New World, known as "American Italian." Extensive research into etymology and culture has culminated into this large-printed, easily-readable glossary, which provides a riveting ride of cultural memories. This book contains the 200 most essential phrases, accompanied by their meanings and origins. It also doubles as a physical archive to preserve this unique subculture forever in the homes of American Italian families!This 200+ page paperback glossary is optimized to enjoy the American Italian culture in private (as a coffee table book) with family/friends (easy to pass around, with large printed words), or a the perfect gifts for all of the American Italians in your life!This printed version adds approximately 40 NEW WORDS exclusive to this book, for a total of the 200 most essential American Italian phrases.

Author : Nicholas Albanese
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000100458748

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Streetwise Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus by Nicholas Albanese Pdf

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Author : John Ayto,J. A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0198610521

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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto,J. A. Simpson Pdf

A dictionary of modern slang draws on the resources of the "Oxford English Dictionary" to cover over five thousand slang words and phrases from throughout the English-speaking world.

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393343519

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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino Pdf

"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."

Author : Mike Ellis
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781423624929

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Italian Slanguage by Mike Ellis Pdf

With this fun visual guide, simply follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud: soon you'll be speaking Italian! Ask how someone is doing: "Comb Mess Tie" or say breakfast: "Cole Lot See Owe Nay." The simple icons are easy to follow and this pocket-sized guide is easy to carry with you. It will give you the basic phrases you need to get around while traveling, whether asking directions, ordering food at a restaurant, or shopping. But most of all, it's just plain fun!

Author : David Burke
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781620459393

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Street Italian 1 by David Burke Pdf

Francesca ha una cotta per Giovanni! (trans.): Francesca has a crush on Giovanni! (lit.): Francesca has a baking for Giovanni! Ho mangeato in un ristorante caro, dove mi hanno spennato! (trans.): I ate at an expensive restaurant and got fleeced! (lit.): l ate at an expensive restaurant and got plucked! Mamma mia! Even after years of trying to learn Italian, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because everyday Italian is filled with slang and colloquialisms. Street Italian 1 is the first in a series of slang/idiom books that teach you how to speak and understand the real language used daily on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. Entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, word searches, and "inside" tips will have you sounding like a native in no time at all.

Author : Gabrielle Euvino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781646042616

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Dirty Italian: Third Edition by Gabrielle Euvino Pdf

Learn the slang words, modern phrases, and curses they definitely never taught you in Italian class with this super-handy and hilariously improper English-Italian phrasebook. You already know enough Italian to get by, but you want to be able to tell those inside jokes, greet your friends in a laid-back manner, and casually pick someone up at a bar. From “What’s up?” to “Wanna go home with me?” Dirty Italian will teach you how to speak like you're a regular on the streets of Milan or Rome. But you’ll also discover material that goes beyond a traditional phrasebook, including: Hilarious insults Provocative facts Explicit swear words Themed Italian cocktails And more! Next time you’re traveling or chatting with your Italian friends, pick up this book, drop the textbook formality, and get dirty!

Author : Daniela Gobetti
Publisher : Barron's Educational Series
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 1438080964

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Dictionary of Italian Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Daniela Gobetti Pdf

This quick-reference dictionary for language students and travelers to Italy presents more than 4,000 informal, commonly-used words and phrases in Italian with English translations and equivalent phrases. International travelers quickly discover that their textbook knowledge of Italian will take them only so far in understanding and communicating with others. This new edition, updated with many of the most contemporary expressions, will help all students and travelers who have an intermediate-level knowledge of Italian but need to familiarize themselves with informal speech. Words and phrases are presented with grammatical information, their English meanings, and a sentence or extended phrase in Italian to illustrate usage, followed by the English translation. The " Dictionary of Italian Slang and Colloquial Expressions " is one title in Barron's series of slang dictionaries in several different languages. Because of the nature of slang, these books contain expressions that some readers might find offensive.

Author : James G. Caridi
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780595221684

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Yo Capeesh!!!! by James G. Caridi Pdf

Yo Capeesh!!!! is a humorous, nostalgic, educational and sentimental guide to Italian Americana. It was written in a way that would appeal to many of the 25 million Italian Americans and those familiar with them. It is especially useful for those individuals smitten with the Italian American media. Using humor as its main focus, portions of the book are educational and can be used by all as a reference. It not only addresses Italian American heroes, songs and traditions but also phonetically and occasionally pictorially defines typical clichés, mannerisms, speech and food used in movies, TV and the stereotypical Italian American home. For those who are infatuated with the Mob, a chapter entitled “How the boys say it” explains many of the expressions and origins of organized crime vernacular. This chapter was included because of the somewhat crazed interest for this media genre and is sensitive to the majority of Italian Americans it does not represent. Briefly, Yo Capeesh!!!! is a whimsical, entertaining guide that has widespread appeal not only for Italian Americans but also for those who are interested in the allure and mystique of this unique and pervasive sub-culture.

Author : David Burke
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0471384399

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Street Italian 2 by David Burke Pdf

You’ve mastered Italian slang, conquered popular idioms, yet still feel like an outsider. The reason is simple. You haven’t discovered the third secret to understanding everyday Italian: popular expletives and obscenities–those back-alley words and phrases constantly used in movies, books, and conversations between native speakers. STREET ITALIAN 2 is the first step-by-step guide of its kind to explore the most common curses, vulgarities and obscenities used throughout Italy. Chapters include: Dating Slang Nonvulgar Insults & Putdowns Vulgar Insults & Name-Calling Body Parts in Slang Sexual Slang Bodily Functions, Sounds & Smells For continuous updates on new products (such as books, audio CDs, cassettes, and videos) on Italian, Spanish, French, and American slang and idioms, check out his Web site: www.slangman.com.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478

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The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Martino Marazzi
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823245727

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Voices of Italian America by Martino Marazzi Pdf

Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after World War II. The volume resurrects the neglected and even forgotten territory of a nationwide “Little Italy” where people wrote, talked, read, and consumed the various forms of entertainment mostly in their native Italian language, in a complex interplay with native dialects and surrounding American English. The anthological sections include excerpts from the ethnically tinged thrillers by Tuscan-born first-comer Bernardino Ciambelli, as well as the first short stories by Italian American women, set in the Gilded Age. The fiction of political activists such as Carlo Tresca coexists with the hardboiled autobiography of Italian American cop Mike Fiaschetti, fighting against the Mafia. Voices of Italian America presents new material by English-speaking classics such as Pietro di Donato and John Fante, and a selection of poetry by a great bilingual voice, the champion of the “masses” and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) poet Arturo Giovannitti, and by a lesserknown, self-taught, satirical versifier, Riccardo Cordiferro/Ironheart. Controversial documents on the difficult interracial relations between Italian Americans and African Americans live side by side with the first poignant chronicles from Ellis Island. This study sheds light on the “fabrication” of a new culture of immigrant origins—pliable, dynamic, constantly shifting and transforming itself—while focusing on stories, genres, rhythms, the “human touch” contributed by literature in its wider sense. Ultimately, through a rich sample of significant texts covering various aspects of the immigrant experience, Voices of Italian America offers the reader a literary history of Italian American culture.

Author : Andrea L. Dottolo,Carol Dottolo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319747576

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Italian American Women, Food, and Identity by Andrea L. Dottolo,Carol Dottolo Pdf

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents home, loss, and longing. Food also stands in for race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, region, place, and space. The authors highlight how food is about family and tradition, as well as choice and change. These women's narratives reveal that food is related to celebration, love, power, and shame. As this study centers on the intergenerational transmission of culture, the authors' relationship mirrors these questions as they contend with their similar and disparate experiences and relationships with Italian American identity and food. The authors use the "recipe" as a conversational bridge to elicit narratives about identity and the self. They also encourage readers to listen closely to the stories at their own tables to consider how recipes and food are a way for us to claim who we are, who we think we are, who we want to be, and who we are not.

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0304366366

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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green Pdf

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317625117

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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor Pdf

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.