Tuscan dialects: the other Italian language brothers
While the Italian literary (then national language) and the dialect of the city of Florence and its surroundings went their own way, as they spoke in the rest of Tuscany?
Read More →Italy first in class in waste recycling
There is no doubt that consumerism has pervaded (with greater or lesser intensity depending on the economic circumstances of the moment) the last 40 years of the last century and continues into the current one.
Read More →10 Latin expressions used everyday
Here are ten Latin expressions Italians use in everyday life, but not only Italians.
Read More →What’s the Italian language origin?
We have already explained how the definition of “dialect”, as widespread in Italy, lends itself to numerous misunderstandings: in fact it confuses the strictly linguistic and the sociological level.
Read More →Speak like an italian – with hands
When you think about Italy the first image that comes in mind is pizza, pastasciutta, art and culture in general. And how Italians speak aloud with voice and hands.In fact you can’t talk about Italian language without mentioning the common hand gestures culture that goes with it.
Read More →Italian language fourth studied in the world
Conventionally, we speak of “Italian language” to refer to the national language spoken in Italy, referring to the neo-Latin language based on the variety spoken in Florence, the cradle of Renaissance and Humanism of the Bel Paese. However, what is commonly called “Italian” is nothing but a terminological convention: no Italian citizen actually communicates orally in “standard Italian”.
Read More →Italian and Italic dialects
The Italian Language and its dialects has a long history and background. Several dilects from south to north of Italy still today defined clear …
Read More →Italian Language Course Monthly Subscription
The Singapore Italian School has implemented for Sunday classes the payment via monthly instalment using PayPal.
Read More →Who invented the Pasta?
Let’s be clear since the beginning: were not the Chinese to invent pasta, hence it did not come to Italians thanks to Marco Polo. Instead, it was born in Arab Sicily, to then go up all over Italy. Passing through Naples and Genoa. This is the curious story of the dish symbolizing Italianness.
Read More →The importance of Italian Language
Italian is a Romance language based on the fourteenth-century idiom used in the city of Florence. The official language spoken today in the Italian Republic and in the Canton of Ticino in Switzerland is based on the Florentine literary used by the great writers Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio.
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