Italian speaking practice and grammar tutoring
For some reason, I have always thought that this was a very special period for many people around the world but Christmas and the Christmas holidays in Italy are a bit different than in some other places.
Depending on what each student likes, we talk about sports, books, movies, daily life, politics, travels, and lots of other fun stuff. I have to admit that, if the student is interested in the topic, I love chatting about Italian wedding traditions because I always find it fun to compare them to those of other countries.
It seems that many people in Italy strongly believe that some things might bring bad luck and it is a common belief that people are generally more superstitious in the south of the country.
The first post of the series was about Libereso Guglielmi, a very important figure in Italian gardening who is famous for being the gardener of Italo Calvino, while the second one was about Lisetta Carmi, a photographer from Genoa who says she has lived five different lives.
Our language and everyday conversations are full of references to some Italian comedy movies that everybody has watched at least once in their lives.
As I stated in the first post of the series, which was about Libereso Guglielmi, the gardener of Italo Calvino, the purpose of the series is to tell you about Italians that deserve to be known outside of Italy and to write about Italian culture from a different perspective.
I bet you know a lot of them! Lots of Italians – like Andrea Bocelli, Sophia Loren, and Federico Fellini, just to name the first three that come to my mind – are famous all over the world. But there are a lot of lesser-known Italians that have done incredible things in their lives and that are definitely worth knowing.
We are getting ready to celebrate Christmas, the year is almost gone and it’s the perfect time to look back and reflect on what has happened this year.
The Internet is full of posts and articles about the beauty of Italy, its amazing lifestyle, all the things you should learn from the Italian way of life and so on.
Every three or four months, I sit down and brainstorm ideas about things I could write in my blog. I make a list of many things but only a few of them make it to the actual blog. Some of them become other things, some others just end up in the trash can, some others become blog posts.
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