by DHales | Feb 3, 2014 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Italy magazine, a British publication, has nominated "Becoming Italian Word by Word" as best blog on Italian art and culture. To vote, all you have to do is click here. Grazie! dialetti dialects Years ago a friend in Assisi asked if I...
by DHales | Oct 24, 2013 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Music, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
I dialettiThe dialects For centuries the Italian peninsula was a patchwork of hundreds of dialects, often as different from one another as French from Spanish or English from Italian. Sailors from Genoa couldn’t understand—or be understood by—merchants from Venice or...
