Italian speaking practice and grammar tutoring
My father worked shifts, sometimes he had to work at weekends too, and we didn’t get to celebrate every Sunday together, which meant that the Sundays he was home were really special days.
This should be a very easy and entertaining task because I really love books but I have made this task a bit more difficult for myself because I want to select good Italian books that have an English translation as well.
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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It is going to be quite an effort because there are a lot of beautiful villages in Liguria but it’s a nice sacrifice to make because it gives me the possibility of enjoying the beauty of places I know and discovering new ones too.
This is a horrible habit and one of the reasons why Italians have such a low command of English but we can’t help it. That’s how it has always been, how it is and probably it’s a tradition that will never change. I am sure the future will bring significant changes in Italian society but movies will always be dubbed.
Everybody said it was grey and depressing, a place where people would only think about working and making money because there was no real beauty around.
As I told you in my previous post about English-Italian false friends, there are so many of them that I had to split the topic in two to avoid writing an incredibly long post.
Today I have the pleasure of chatting with Sonia Piacente, who very kindly shares with us her experience of moving to Italy and growing a family here and also tells us a bit about life in Turin as an expat.
You may study a certain language for ages and even feel quite confident but the real test is when you visit the country where such language is spoken.
One of my favorite pastimes is browsing books in a bookstore and every time I do so it is really hard for me not to bring a book home.
