by DHales | Oct 28, 2010 | Education, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
One Family, Two Languages Una famiglia, due lingue by Rebecca Winke I fell in love with the bel paese during a high school foreign exchange summer in Umbria in 1986, when I met my future husband and began tripping through my first words in Italian. In 1993, after...
by DHales | Oct 4, 2010 | Education, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
L’italiano per i ragazziItalian for Children “Mi chiamo Abigail,” the blonde, pig-tailed girl at the Girotondo Italian Academy in San Rafael, Ca., replies when asked her name. Holding up four fingers, she announces “quattro” as her age. When I compliment her...