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Italian I
Taylor Baldry
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Taylor Baldry
All Rights Reserved
ISBN: 978 0 9883028 4 6
taylorbaldry.com/books
Written and illustrated by Taylor Baldry
Edited by Liz Sexton
Translated by Luisa Rivera
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any
form (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright
owner and publisher of this book.
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Table of Contents
A Note on the Images
Preface
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Mezzi di Trasporto
La Frutta e le Verdure
Le Bevande
Gli Animali
La Natura
Gli Utensili di Cucina
I Mobili
Il Materiale Scolastico
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Acknowledgements
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A Note on the Images
The appearance of the genitalia has prompted inquiries from several readers. Specifically concerning
the uniform size, omission of hair, and lack of distinguishing features. While I empathize with readers’ anatomic concerns and preferences, my interest
is in creating consistent, simple and easily recognizable genital icons that do not distract (too much)
from the overall vocabulary word.
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Preface
Language is about making connections. It's also
about imagining what an airplane would look like
with a penis. This book aims to burn into your visual
memory feminine and masculine articles by combining biological gender with grammatical gender.
Libraries and booksellers are never short of tedious,
text-heavy language books that take themselves too
seriously. With Feminine/Masculine Books, I hope
to capture the heat of the meat of language-study
by visualizing vocabulary as it was never meant to
be portrayed - with genitalia.
The idea for the series first came to me while I was
teaching English at a junior high school in rural
Japan. I was the only native English-speaking foreigner in my community and for better or worse, I
spent most of my time alone with my thoughts. It
was during one of these isolated jam sessions that
I was perusing a copy of Point-It (the pocket-size
picture dictionary for travelers), and I began to
wonder what foreign language visual dictionaries
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would look like if they were reinterpreted to illustrate gender articles.
I squirreled away the idea for a feminine/masculine vocabulary book for a couple of years until I
shared it to my friend, Diarmuid, who I was visiting in Dublin. Buoyed by Diarmuid's words of
encouragement and a few pints of Guinness, I set
a course over the next nine months to paint over 50
vocabulary items, raise funds via Kickstarter and
figure out once and for all what a vagina looks like.
A friend once described the book as a collection of
drawings of penises and vaginas attached to otherwise perfectly fine paintings of real-life objects
labeled in a foreign language. His description was
not wrong. However, Feminine/Masculine Books
is more than just a series of illustrated vocabulary
words depicted with genitalia - it's about creating
relationships, discovering new cultures and reinvesting in your life through language-study. Also,
the genitals have accessories.
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