Start with key phrases (located inside the covers) and fill in with whatever words you need from the dictionary. Word entries are in easy-to-find alphabetical order and include pronunciations for virtually everything. The book includes a pronunciation guide, a grammar summary, an English-Italian dictionary, an Italian-English dictionary, and loads of help with genders, articles, plurals, and verb forms.
The emphasis in this book is on usefulness and usability. It is deliberately redundant (so you can find information in more than one place), out of order at times (when it makes things easier to find that way), and occasionally incomplete (focusing on forms most likely to be used and omitting unlikely ones), in order to be as practical as possible. Usefulness is more important than consistency.
Italian Dictionary with Phrases for Travelers bridges the gap between phrasebook and dictionary to form something more useful for on-the-spot communication than either of those traditional resources. Get the basics for communicating in Italian right in your hands. Using the local language has never been easier!