According to a report from the British Council, the Languages for the Future report identifies Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese as the languages most vital to the UK over the next 20 years. They were chosen based on economic, geopolitical, cultural and educational factors including the needs of UK businesses, the UK’s overseas…
A three day festival across three venues in East London: showcasing an exhilarating diversity of new music across a multitude of genres and countries, this year including Italy. M&F LONDON 2014 will feature premieres of new works from Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, James Allsopp, Rebecca Sneddon & Lunch Money M&F LONDON 2014 will be broadcast live online to the world through…
Why do you study Italian? “because I love Italy!”, “I like art”, “I like Italian movies”, “my girlfriend is Italian, and I’d like to know what she’s muttering on Monday mornings”. But what about studying Italian to understand 20 pages-long menus handed out in Italian restaurants ? Non turistic restaurants seldom have menus translated in English, and you’ll have to…
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER! This famous and yet sometimes ambiguous mantra becomes more than appropriate when it comes to talk about sports: as a matter of fact, in spite of its size, by all means Italy has an incredible tradition in achieving oustanding results in many disparate disciplines. LET’S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. With a population…
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his 1958 international hit song “Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)” that was his signature song. “Meraviglioso” is one of the most beautiful song he sang but it wasn’t a big hit when it came out in 1968, only later, after many years and today with a new version from the young Italian rock band…
Italy’s Amalfi Coast is well known for its dramatic cliff-side views above the Mediterranean but also for places like Sorrento. It is a small town across the bay from Naples, with Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii in between. The town is perhaps most famous for its production of limoncello, the sweet digestivo liqueur made from Sorrento lemons (which are as big…
A summer of events and films at the Italian Cultural Institute and Riverside studios in London, here a short list of movies you can watch this summer. Wednesday, July 16, 2014 THE HUMAN CARGO, by Daniele Vicari – Raindance Film Festival – Italian films selection In 1991, the cargo ship Vlora made port in Albania. 50,000 desperate Albanians descended on…
Quando usiamo i pronomi diretti e i pronomi indiretti insieme formiamo i pronomi combinati. I pronomi indiretti mi,ti,ci,vi cambiano la vocale -i in -e I pronomi indiretti gli, le formano il pronome combinato glielo,gliela etc in una sola parola. In una conversazione Situazione 1 Persona A: Puoi scrivere una lettera a Luigi? a Luigi diventa il pronome indiretto>gli> posizione 1+ lettera…
« everything lies underneath the idle talk, the noise, the silence and the feelings, the emotion and the fear … Rare and fickle sparks of beauty. And then the dreariness and the miserable » After several months « The Great Beauty » is still debated among movie lovers : is the movie about Rome, about its inhabitants, about Italy’s decadent middle-upper class, or just a…
La moda italiana è famosa in tutto il mondo e per questo motivo, studiamo il vocabolario della moda e dei vestiti. Come descrivere i nostri vestiti, cosa indossiamo. Parliamo di vestiti da uomo e da donna e di come descrivere gli oggetti in italiano. Per descrivere un oggetto in italiano usiamo 3 preposizioni. Sai quali sono? Descrivere un oggetto in…