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An Italian-American’s Tips for Learning the Italian Language

by DHales | Jun 21, 2017 | Books, culture, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

A guest post by Anthony Fasano It wasn’t until my mid-30s that I really started thinking about where I came from. I don’t mean where I grew up; I mean where my family came from generations earlier. I talked to my grandparents, did a lot of research and finally...

Nomi (Names) and Nonni (Grandparents) in the Italian language

by DHales | Jul 24, 2014 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  Un bel nome   A beautiful name a guest post by James Vescovi My wife and I chose our son’s name, Luca, from a book of Italian names. It was very much unlike the American names our first-generation parents had given our siblings and us: James, Anne, Mark,...

Italian-Americans and their Stories in the Italian Language

by DHales | Oct 17, 2012 | Books, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Italo-americani Italian Americans As many as 26 million Americans claim some Italian ancestry (origini italiane). In the greatest surge of immigration, between 1880 and 1920, some four million Italians left their fatherland (patria) for the United States. About 80...
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