Dirty Italian: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

Dirty Languages

by Gabrielle Ann Euvino, Lindsay Mack (Illustrator)

GET D!RTY
Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Italian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

Cool slang Funny insults Explicit sex terms Raw swear words

Dirty Italian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Italy:

What's up?
Come va?

He's a real hottie.
Lui è proprio un figo.

This pizza's awesome!
Questa pizza è buonissima!

I'm totally wasted.
Soo sbronzo.

I gotta piss.
Devo pisciare.

Hey ref, you're an asshole!
Arbitro cornuto!

Wanna do it doggy-style?
Lo facciamo alla pecorina?

Genres: Italian Literature, Reference, Travel, Humor, Nonfiction

163 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2006

Reviews

[Velia]

I've been using Rosetta Stone to learn Italian and this little book actually helped me to improve my grammar lesson scores. Grazie.

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I really hope an audiobook version is released.

[L]

Eccelente!