Archive for July, 2014
Two More Days of Rain … Posted by Geoff on Jul 14, 2014
That’s what they’re telling us, “Ancora due giorni di pioggia poi arriva la vera estate”. (“Still two more days of rain and then the real summer will arrive”). Personally, I’m quite happy with the way the things are right now. I can put up with a few showers and thunderstorms if it means having a…
Proprio Posted by Serena on Jul 11, 2014
Here’s another question which I eagerly started replying to in my recent post ‘July’s Grammar Clinic’ thinking ‘this should be simple to answer, just a couple of lines should do the trick’. Ultime parole famose, 230 words later I realised that I was only half way through, so it’s all grown up and now it’s…
Berceto Posted by Geoff on Jul 9, 2014
The plan was to go to Parma. My sister and niece are here from England for a few days, and as part of our itinerary we had hoped to spend Tuesday at San Terenzo on the Liguria coast … but the weather had other ideas. Martedì: Temporali (Tuesday: Thunderstorms). Luckily, as we live right on…
July’s Grammar Clinic Posted by Serena on Jul 4, 2014
Your feedback and questions are very important to us, as they really help us to focus on your needs. Sometimes readers have questions about particular aspect of Italian grammar that we feel it would be useful to share with everyone. Here are three important ones: Question 1. From Robin: I have another “reader’s question” and…
It’s Wonderful – Via Con Me Posted by Geoff on Jul 3, 2014
Paolo Conte, singer, pianist, composer, artist and lawyer, was born in Asti, Piemonte, in 1937. The first time I became aware of his music was when watching one of my favourite comedy films, Anthony and Joe Russo’s Welcome to Collingwood, a remake of Mario Monicelli’s 1958 film I Soliti Ignoti (English title: Big Deal on…
Adjective Order in Italian Posted by Serena on Jul 2, 2014
Dear readers, your questions really do help us to focus on what’s important to you as students of Italian, so please keep them coming. Here’s an interesting one that arrived a few days ago from a reader called Patsy: “Could you give me any advice on adjective order in the case of multiple adjectives? It…