morgan;98386 wrote Must be Indian ?
It's a safe bet that Giovanni's national dish is likely to be spaghetti, not curry. ;)
Or toast (Australia's national dish). :D
I haven't purchased a car in Italy, but I did lose my prescription spectacles and had to get a new set made at a one-hour place when I was over there. The young lady at the optometrist in Bolanga didn't speak any English; I only knew about 5 words of Italian... and somehow we muddled through the 'script (which I didn't have with me!) We drew numbers and pictures on a piece of paper (e.g to represent the cylinder specification) so the young lady could write a 'script and do the order. The specs were done in an hour. And done well. Had 'em for years...
... moral of the story? Pictures can tell the story when language can't.