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Hello, fellow curious minds and food adventurers! Today we explore not into a bubbling cauldron of tomato sauce or a ...
Luca, Enzo and Leonardo are three of the most popular Italian boy names in the United States today. This post appeared first ...
The Italian language is under assault from a growing tide of English words, the abandoning of verb tenses and a shrinking vocabulary, and could be driven to extinction altogether, the head of the ...
Alighieri played an important role in the development of the Italian language. Born in Florence in 1265 (where his home is now a museum), he wrote the enduring classic, ...
Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Italian and to the culture of Italian-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least ...
From vocabulary basics to the peculiarities of Italian ‘ politichese ’, here’s The Local’s guide to the language you’ll need when following the election and political news in the coming weeks. The ...
Even when it isn't sung, the Italian language sounds like music, which is part of why Italian words are used to tell musicians how to play—presto, lento, adagio, forte. Commentator Miles Hoffman ...
Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, is turning in his grave. Believe it or not, the land where Latin originated and from which many other European languages descend is becoming ...
DECATUR — Francesca Tescione's classes in Italian at Millikin University have a little different flavor than the usual language classes.
Italian is more than a language. In the words of iconic Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, “A different language is a different vision of life.” Of all the Romance languages, Italian is the closest ...