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A Year of Italian Language and Culture: Italian Dialects

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...

The Art of Being Clever in the Italian Language

by DHales | Jun 3, 2010 | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

furbocunning or crafty personOnly after years of visiting Italy did I realize that Italians admire rather than disdain a furbo, someone who can pull off a clever deception. “Che furbetto!” a young mother exclaimed rather proudly when her son shifted the blame for a...

Spazzatura

by DHales | Jun 3, 2009 | Books, Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

spazzatura sweepings, trash, refuse At one of my first formal Italian classes, I entered the room with an empty paper coffee cup in hand. “Spazzatura?” the amiable young teacher asked. “Sì,” I responded, certain that I wanted whatever this spray of sibilant syllables...
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