Essential Italian for Your Trip — Beginner’s Grammar and Everyday Phrases
This practical guide is designed for absolute beginners who want to speak Italian with confidence while traveling. It begins with pronunciation and the alphabet, showing how to master vowels, stress, and consonants for natural communication.
Clear, step-by-step explanations introduce nouns, articles, adjectives, and essential verbs such as essere, stare, avere, and andare. Each grammar point comes with word-by-word breakdowns and full-sentence translations, making it easy to apply Italian in daily situations.
Practical dialogues prepare you for common travel needs—checking into a hotel, ordering food, asking for directions, shopping, or handling emergencies. You will also learn to use the passato prossimo to describe past actions and simple future forms like stare per and andare a to talk about plans.
With its phrasebook, vocabulary lists, and real-life focus, the book emphasizes communication over perfection, helping you enjoy smoother travels and authentic connections in Italy.
Buon viaggio!
Essential Spanish for Your Trip — Beginner’s Grammar and Everyday Phrases
This practical guide is designed for beginners and travelers who want to use Spanish with confidence. It combines essential grammar with everyday phrases, showing not only what to say but also how the language works in real situations.
Each example is explained word by word before the full sentence meaning, helping you understand Spanish logic and build your own sentences. The book begins with pronunciation tips and vowel/consonant rules, then introduces nouns, articles, adjectives, and common verbs.
Practical dialogues prepare you for airports, hotels, restaurants, shopping, and emergencies. You will also learn to describe past events with simple tenses and to talk about future plans naturally. Appendices provide verb tables, a phrasebook, and a useful vocabulary list.
More than a phrasebook and more than a grammar manual, this compact companion gives you the tools to connect. A few words in Spanish—spoken with confidence—can open doors and make your trip unforgettable.