by DHales | Sep 5, 2014 | Books, culture, Education, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
My Father’s Language A guest post by Joseph Luzzi Growing up, I could feel the language of my parents wither and die like autumn leaves. They had immigrated to the United States from Calabria in the late 1950s and continued to speak the dialect of their poor southern...
by DHales | Nov 18, 2010 | Education, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
marinare la scuola "marinate the school," play hooky I played hooky the other day. The weather was perfect (faceva bello). The tide (la marea) was out. I didn’t have a deadline (una scadenza) to meet. So I headed for my favorite beach (la mia spiaggia...
