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So you wanna be a wiseguy? Have you ever watched Goodfellas on DVD, adopted a friendly-but-menacing expression in front of the bathroom mirror and asked if your reflection thinks you're funny? Funny how, like a clown, I amuse you?' Now try that out in authentic Italian. Repeat after me Stylish how-to photographs demonstrate a whole range of genuinely Italian, beautifully disdainful gestures, while a useful glossary will help you to distinguish a friend of ours' from a friend of mine' at twenty paces. With Italian translations of all of your favourite Mafia film quotes and useful everyday phrases ( You have a lovely restaurant. I would hate to see it accidentally burnt to the ground.'), this book gives you all the ammunition you need to pretend to be a made guy'. BadaBING!
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Boxtree Phrasebook: Learn to Speak Mafia, Giovanni Bruno, Bruno Vincent, Jon Butler
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Boxtree Phrasebook: Learn to Speak Mafia
- Subtitle
- Menace Friends And Influence People ... In Italian!
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Giovanni Bruno, Bruno Vincent, Jon Butler
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 0752226274
- ISBN13
- 9780752226279
- Series
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
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- So you wanna be a wiseguy? Have you ever watched Goodfellas on DVD, adopted a friendly-but-menacing expression in front of the bathroom mirror and asked if your reflection thinks you're funny? Funny how, like a clown, I amuse you?' Now try that out in authentic Italian. Repeat after me Stylish how-to photographs demonstrate a whole range of genuinely Italian, beautifully disdainful gestures, while a useful glossary will help you to distinguish a friend of ours' from a friend of mine' at twenty paces. With Italian translations of all of your favourite Mafia film quotes and useful everyday phrases ( You have a lovely restaurant. I would hate to see it accidentally burnt to the ground.'), this book gives you all the ammunition you need to pretend to be a made guy'. BadaBING!