Category: Language

Ah, another month and another post. When I’m writing about Italian stuff it’s hard to maintain as much enthusiasm about posting items as when I’m in Italy. Not that I don’t think about Italy, the Italian language and (especially) Italian food it’s just that it seems like I’ve been over a lot of that before. In any […]

  Giulianova is not a particularly famous or noteworthy town in Abruzzo. It is one of those beach resorts on the Adriatic to which people in the area (and even from Rome) flock to in the summer. There are two towns, the alta (high one) and the low one, also called the lido. So why […]

  As usual I get lost in the moment and forget to take photos of memorable occasions. The lovely K and I had dinner with several friends when in Bologna. In most cases they spoke excellent english which made it easier for K since her Italian is very minimal at this point. The first was […]

These are two interesting words that I’ve talked about here in Italy with others. The first, suggestivo, came up in conversation at a meeting called the Magic Door, organized by two American expats. The concept is that when you go through the door one cannot speak any Italian, only English. However one of the expats […]