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Harper Collins Italian College Dictionary The Harper Collins Italian College Dictionary is an easy to use, up to date, and comprehensive dictionary ideal for beginners, students, and writers. Acknowledged by scholars as a prime resource for translation and language education, it features thousands of contemporary technical, medical, political, and business terms, plus abundant examples of construction and usage, with more than 390,000 entries and translations of the Italian language. Usage levels are indicated throughout, with extensive examples to illustrate how words are used in context. A system of style labels identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, vulgar, dated, or euphemistic. In addition, specific meanings are clearly marked to guide the user to the correct treatment. The text also includes illustrations of pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet, enabling easy access and effective communication for educational, business, and traveling purposes. And HarperCollins dictionaries are updated more often than any other dictionary. This dictionary provides fully updated coverage of both Italian and English, to give you the edge in understanding and translation. Hardcover, 666 pages. $29.95

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Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary Cristina Bareggi Reflecting the efforts of two national teams of lexicographers, who painstakingly investigated vocabulary, meanings, and grammatical usage in their own particular country, the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary boasts more than 700,000 words, phrases, and translations - far and away the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage available. The dictionary offers superlative guidance on the general, scientific, literary, and technical vocabulary of contemporary Italian and English. Moreover, entries feature helpful illustrative sentences, which are carefully selected to highlight the full range of meanings and typical contexts. The dictionary also provides in-text boxes that provide extensive help with difficult points of grammar and usage, including guidance on key constructions and complementation, plus vocabulary building panels for extra information on the seasons, numbers, sports, and other topics. The unsurpassed range of this dictionary - along with the extensive vocabulary and usage notes throughout - make it an essential reference work for all serious students of Italian, as well as translators and language professionals. Hardback, 2672 pages. $75

Harper Collins Italian College Dictionary The Harper Collins Italian College Dictionary is an easy to use, up to date, and comprehensive dictionary ideal for beginners, students, and writers. Acknowledged by scholars as a prime resource for translation and language education, it features thousands of contemporary technical, medical, political, and business terms, plus abundant examples of construction and usage, with more than 390,000 entries and translations of the Italian language. Usage levels are indicated throughout, with extensive examples to illustrate how words are used in context. A system of style labels identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, vulgar, dated, or euphemistic. In addition, specific meanings are clearly marked to guide the user to the correct treatment. The text also includes illustrations of pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet, enabling easy access and effective communication for educational, business, and traveling purposes. And HarperCollins dictionaries are updated more often than any other dictionary. This dictionary provides fully updated coverage of both Italian and English, to give you the edge in understanding and translation. Hardcover, 666 pages. $29.95

Street Italian 1 This book lets you quickly become an insider by presenting some of the most popular slang terms used throughout the many Italian-speaking countries. With the help of entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, and word searches, you'll soon be able to understand the everyday language used on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. $21.95   More about the Slangman Street Series...

Let's Learn Italian Picture Dictionary One of the best sellers in our Seattle retail store, this oversized hardback dictionary provides colorful scenes with important objects labeled in Italian and their English translations. A complete glossary index and pronunciation guide is included. It is absolutely an essential for all beginners and great for teachers and tutors. Shipping weight 1 lb. $17.95

501 Italian Verbs
A good reference for every serious student of Italian, this volume contains hundreds of Italian verbs, fully conjugated for your pleasure and convenience. Shipping weight 1 lb.
$19.95  

Music Translation Dictionary An English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish Vocabulary of Musical Terms Contains 1,300 musical terms, computer registered, in 13 languages. The terms were gathered from 113 lexicons and dictionaries for the languages involved. Main entries are offered in English with other languages following in each case, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. A one-alphabet index (including all languages) makes reference to the English entry. $145

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