Italian Lessons Around the Web
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La Bella Lingua
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
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World Cup Shame for Italy’s Azzurri
Posted 2 months ago
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Do Italians Still Love the Italian Language?
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
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No Way Like an Italian Weigh
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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It’s Raining Words in Italian
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Italian Ways to Weigh Less
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Caravaggio and Controversy in Porto Ercole
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Advice to “Ugly” Americans: Non Fare Brutta Figura!
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
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Italian’s Top Ten Words
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Top 10 Secrets for Learning the Italian Language
Posted 11 months ago
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More of My Top 10 Secrets for Learning Italian
Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Tuning in to Italian Car Talk
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Art of Doing Nothing, Italian Style
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago
il dolce far niente
the sweetness of doing nothing
Jody Paglia Goode, a fellow Italophile (and a CPA based in Des Moines), is contributing this guest blog on the perfect topic for the last lazy, hazy, hot days of summer–when all of Italy seems “chiuso per ferie” (closed for holidays)….
KEEP READING »No Name Like an Italian Nickname
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Soprannomi
Nicknames
“Tutti hanno un nome.” Italians say. (Everyone has a name.) But in Italy many people and places also have soprannomi (literally “above the name”) or nomignoli (nicknames).
Locals call Rome’s Spanish Steps La Scalinata (from scala, for stairs), St. Peter’s Il…
KEEP READING »Discovering Italian Secrets in a Roman Stationery Store
Posted 1 month ago
La Cartoleria
The Statonery Store
On a blustery winter day in Rome, the bright flowers and fruits on notebooks, folders, and stationery in the window of the Cartoleria Imperiale at 10 Via Metastasio caught my eye. I went inside to admire shelves of hand-crafted paper products,…
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