The Italian SpeakOut guide combines a dictionary, menu decoder, and phrasebook in one durable, pocket-sized package, with color photos throughout. Written by native speakers in an accessible, easy-to-understand style, it introduces Italy and her people and provides entertaining insights into the delights of regional Italian cuisine. Readers learn how to follow a menu in Italian and order local specialties like pasta alle vongole in Tuscany or risottos in the north. Dialogue boxes throughout the two-way dictionary ensure that travelers can deal with every situation, from asking for a hair cut to going to the cinema. In addition, two PopOut phrase menus provide instant access to 200 essential phrases on eating, shopping, traveling, and sightseeing, and a light-up pen in the spine can be used on notes pages at the back of the dictionary.