Beginner's Sicilian

By Joseph Privitera

Book Overview

The Beginner's Series is designed to meet the bilingual needs of the traveling businessperson, tourist, and student. These language lessons cover such common situations as: passing through customs,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781806402
• ISBN13: 9780781806404
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Beginner's Sicilian

Wonderful introduction to Sicilian with practical lessons and dialog. General notes about the island and history geared more towards one who is planning a future visit. Clearly written.

Learning Sicilian

Here's a well-organized paperback full of information, vocabularies, and exercises in translation. It's particularly helpful for travelers.

Not for the traveler

This book is an excellent overview of the Sicilian language/dialect, but it is NOT designed as a "traveler's guide" to the language. The lessons are set up in an "immersion approach", providing the Sicilian dialog and THEN following with an English translation; so, it is a little hard to get started. But, once begun, the progress flows quickly and an elemental grasp of the language soon follows. It is not full of "traveler phrases", but the understanding the reader gains from study of the book should provide ample capability regardless of their original intent.

This book gives a good introduction to the Sicilian language

This book is not your typical language instruction book. It has a brief description of customs and culture, which is nice. However, the chapters often repeat themselves, so it could have been better organized into chapters that have distinct lessons and progressively get more complex (like most language books). This book stays at a fairly basic level throughout, however, it accomplishes its purpose, which is to give a taste of Sicilian.

A well-designed book for people who want to learn this lang.

This book is a really good book for a student or anyone traveling to Sicily because it teaches the person about its history and its language. The book has many information about Sicily's native food, an easy grammar, an easy vocabulary (because it's very similar to Italian), valuable information for tourists going there and much more.