ITALIAN CULTURE: "Caffè letterario, where culture meets the Italian dolce vita" [L'Italo-Americano]
Caffè letterario, where culture meets the Italian dolce vita or nando's serata italiana! ;-)
ITALIAN: "Tanto! Tanto! Tanto!" Music lyrics are great for language learning!
Tanto Tanto Tanto - Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini Che stai facendo? Lavoro. Che cosa cerchi? L'oro. Hai uno scopo? Credo. Dove ti trovi? In...
ITALIAN CULTURE: the moka, the original espresso machine!
"An exhibition dedicated to the father of the Italian coffee machine, la Moka" Nice article in the L'Italo-Americano paper on the Moka...
PSYCHOLOGY/LANGUAGE: Self-talk and language learning
This is a great story from npr - "Why Saying Is Believing — The Science Of Self-Talk" - and one that particularly applies to language...
LANGUAGE: See? Learning a language sharpens your focus!
LANGUAGE: Sharpen your focus! Joe Robinson in an article titled "Pay Attention" in Entrepreneur magazine (September 2014, p. 85) writes:...
ITALIAN: "Origins and evolution of the Italian language"
"Origins and evolution of the Italian language" in L'italo-Americano paper. Good little article on how Italian as we know it came about!...
LANGUAGE: "Romance Languages," - nando's Ten Guiding Principles to Learn A Language:
"Romance Languages," my butt. ;- nando's Ten Guiding Principles to Learn A Language: 1. It should be fun 2. It should be highly...
LANGUAGE: Swear words and you probably didn't know about them!
"Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Swear Words" From a just published book, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, by medieval...
LANGUAGE: “The grammar of cuisine"
"You are what you eat — and how you translate the menu": " “The grammar of cuisine is the idea that every culture has a different way of...
ENGLISH: "The Linguistics of LOL"
The Linguistics of LOL A great article on how online users are making English evolve so quickly! Check it out!