Luigi Bonaffini is a professor of Italian language at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His publications include La poesia visionaria di Dino Campana (1980) and translations of Dino Campana(Orphic Songs and Other Poems, 1992); Mario Luzi (For the Baptism of Our Fragments and Phrases and Passages of a Salutary Song, 1992, 1998). Fiorenza Consonni Clark is a teacher of Italian and Spanish at the Raritan High School in Hazlet, New Jersey. Conrad J. Schmitt was the editor in chief of foreign language, ESL, and bilingual publishing with McGraw-Hill. Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, he taught languages at all levels of instruction, from elementary school through college. He also served as coordinator of foreign languages for the Hackensack, New Jersey, Public Schools.

1. At the airport 2. On the airplane 3. Passport control and customs 4. At the train station 5. The automobile 6. Asking for directions 7. A telephone call 8. Public restrooms 9. At the hotel 10. At the bank 11. At the post office 12. At the hairdresser 13. At the department store 14. At the dry cleaner (laundry) 15. At the restaurant 16. At home 17. At the doctor's office 18. At the hospital 19. At the theater and the movies 20. Sports 21. The computer