Writers and poets shaped its style and vocabulary over centuries, with beauty and sound as some of their primary considerations. It happened again the other day. I was walking down the street in my ...
The front pages of Italian newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica on December 2nd 2019. Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP With its musicality and large vocabulary, Italian is one of the most fascinating ...
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 34, No. 2, High-Level L2 Acquisition, Learning, and Use (June 2012), pp. 269-290 (22 pages) This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for ...
DECATUR — Francesca Tescione's classes in Italian at Millikin University have a little different flavor than the usual language classes. Tescione is from Italy and lived there until she was 27, and ...
Hear Miles Hoffman's examples of Italian musical terms in action. 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 ...
Editor’s Note: Silvia Marchetti is a Rome-based freelance reporter and writer. She covers finance, economics, travel and culture for a wide range of media. Silvia has a master degree in journalism, ...
A professor has used video games to teach Italian, allowing his students to master two semesters worth of language acquisition through one intensive class for students new to the Italian language. In ...
Elizabeth Leake, the new chair of the department, looks both behind and ahead.