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You won't make it in Italy without this app!

Planning a trip to Italy? Dreaming of moving to Florence or Rome?

Then you can’t miss this new free app featuring 100 Italian nouns and names you need to know before visiting the Bel Paese. Listen to their pronunciations and read the biting definitions and descriptions.

You will find out what no one else will ever tell you about Italy!

Just to have an idea:

Miuccia Prada: Italian fashion designer. True radical chic: she is a communist but also an icon of the wealthy and the mighty. Her brands are Prada and Miu Miu

Cavallo:: Horse. This is going to be unpopular: in Italy we eat horse meat. Not everybody likes it but we have butcher's shops only selling horse meat and cold cuts

Assegno:: Cheque or check (in US). In Italy you usually write them only for big amounts of money. Italians still like to use cash whenever they can

Valentino Rossi:: Italian motorcycle racer. According to Sports Illustrated, Rossi is one of the highest earning sports personalities in the world and, according to Italian tax authorities, he is also a tax evader. In February 2008, Rossi announced that he had reached a settlement with the Italian tax authorities: at the very end, he paid 35 million Euros to close the tax case. According to gossip gurus instead... He had a fling with Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney's ex-girlfriend

Documento:: Document, paper. Good luck if you have to deal with one of the craziest bureaucracies in the world

Riccardo Scamarcio:: Italian actor, a very, very, very handsome one! Good at acting? Who cares about acting when he is on the big screen

Click a name, listen to the correct pronunciation and enjoy the definition!

The search

The search is very simple: the noun or name you are looking for can be entered directly or searched by Category (Arts/Photography/Architecture, Brands, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Literature/Poetry, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, Places, Politics, Science/Medicine, Sport).

Il detail

Insert a noun, enjoy the correct pronunciation and the biting definition. Write the name of a celebrity, listen to the correct pronunciation and read the short pungent bio

Random Button

The random button allows you to get a list of random nouns and names, giving you the possibility to discover all those useful words in Italy and to get to know Italian artists, musicians, philosophers, writers, poets, politicians you've never even heard of.

Multilingual interface

The application has a multilingual interface (English, Italian, French, German, Spanish) and it is meant for mobiles and tablets.

Technical information

IOS features

OS: iPhone OS 4 or higher
Compatible Devices: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPodTouch, iPad, iPad2

Android features

OS: Android 2.2 or higher
Hardware: Processor ARMV7
Devices: mobile phones or tablet

Features

Correct pronunciation and short bios of every single personality
Faculty to search by name, language and category (music, literature / poetry, philosophy)
Shuffle key to obtain names at random
Application with Multilanguage interface (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish)
You listen to the pronunciations directly from the app, without going online
Universal application for mobile and tablet
Devices: mobile phones or tablet
FREE