You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English (repost)

You Already Know Italian: Learn the Easiest 5,000 Italian Words and Phrases That Are Nearly Identico to English by Raymond Lowry
English, Italian | 2006-03-16 | ISBN: 0071464891 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

That’s right, you already know Italian–even if you never took a language course in your life!

Many of the words you know in English are similar and often the same in Italian, such as arte and delizioso. And pizza, bambino, and diva have been part of our lexicon for so long you forget they were ever “foreign.” You Already Know Italian is the easiest and fastest way to build your Italian vocabulary by using your prior knowledge as the foundation for language learning.

Inside you will find chapters devoted to three types of words: familiar terms, identical and similar terms, and “falsely similar” terms. By studying these words, you will realize just how many Italian words you already know and how easy it is to pick up those terms that are close in meaning to their English counterparts. You will have a 5,000-word Italian vocabulary in no time at all!

God Bless America: The Origins of Over 1,500 Patriotic Words and Phrases

God Bless America: The Origins of Over 1,500 Patriotic Words and Phrases by Robert Hendrickson
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1620875977 | 564 pages | EPUB | 0,8 MB

The Queen’s English has no place across the pond, where a long history of defiance, creativity, and originality has made its way into the everyday vocabulary of Americans coast-to-coast. God Bless America is an informative and entertaining guide to the meaning and history beneath our uniquely American words and phrases. Robert Hendrickson makes it clear that whether you’re ordering “fried chicken” or heading out to see a “movie,” you are celebrating contributions to the English language made by Americans, both famous and forgotten. With extensive research and a passion for language, Hendrickson furthers our understanding of the familiar and introduces us to the more obscure artifacts of American speech.

God Bless America provides the definitions and background for many uniquely American phrases and terms, such as:

• Bald eagle

• Boston baked beans

• Five-and-ten

• Give ’em hell

• Lazy Susan

• Sho’ nuff

• Yankee Doodle

• And more!

A dictionary packed full of historical accounts, etymological peculiarities, and imaginative spirit, God Bless America represents not only the American language but also the American people. This book provides an undeniable resource for travelers, patriots, and Anglophiles from all walks of life.