Read Italian Without Words Don Cangelosi Joseph Delli Carpini 9780671677435 Books

Product details Paperback 112 pages Publisher Meadowbrook Press (April 15, 1989) Language English ISBN-10 0671677438

Italian Without Words Don Cangelosi Joseph Delli Carpini 9780671677435 Books Reviews

• A great fun book about Italian hand gestures explained in English and Italian... If you aren't Italian enjoy this book and you too will be like two Italians "talking" to each other from opposite sides of a busy city street, really. This book really does explain hand gesturing such as we Italians use. I recommend this book with a smile!!! ~~Gian John Turturici Banchero
• I bought this as a companion gift to Speak Italian The Fine Art of the Gesture, although everyone needs to realize there are some regional difference in Italy on the use of hand gestures just as is true with regional differences in food preferences. References like these are for people who intend to travel to Italy or those with an interest in Italian culture. Italians are one of the ethnic groups that use hand gestures as practically its own language, and I had seen some of the gestures actually used before buying the book for my wife who is studying Italian.
• The pictures are too small to be able to see what the gestures are. The content is good, but it is really a shame that the pictures aren't bigger. Update I wanted to add the I bought the version and found the pictures to be too small on any device, because the pictures are scalable like the text. The pictures might be easier to see in the print version.
• I didn't expect much from this book, but I laughed my butt off as I went through it. I am Italian (first generation) and I've seen every one of these gestures from my family and their friends. You really can speak Italian without words!
• I bought this book many years ago and somewhere along the way it got lost. I recently purchased a new one. I've used it in my Happiness in the Workplace series I teach as part of the Communication cohort! It's hilarious, so true and very informative. We don't just speak with words )
• This book is a scream. I had to have it. I carry it around with me. If you would like some laughs, get this book.
• i'm not sure why i'm the first to comment that this book is 80% universal body language (demonstrated by colorful italian characters)/20% actual italian body language/hand gestures. if you want to laugh at 'translations' of a man holding his stomach and grimacing ("italian" for "i ate like a pig!"), or holding his nose ("italian" for "you stink!") then buy this book. if you don't know what a woman rolling her eyes with a dreamy expression means (in "italian" --"he's a hunk") or how to say "don't touch me" in "italian" (point your ever-handy wooden spoon at someone and flare your eyes), then get this book. the few actual italian hand gestures are ok but there aren't many.
• Hilarious!!!! Must have for any Italian Family