Archive for 'Italian Language'
The Death of a Great Italian Actress – Anna Proclemer Posted by Serena on May 2, 2013
On the 25th of April, Anna Proclemer, one of our greatest Italian stage actresses, died in Rome at the age of 90. Click on the image below to visit her official website . Born in Trento in 1923 Anna Proclemer began acting in the early 40’s. I first saw her many years ago at the…
Maleducato Posted by Serena on Apr 12, 2013
A couple of weeks ago we looked at greetings, adjectives, nouns and idiomatic expressions constructed with the adverb bene (well/good). Today we are going to look at words built with the opposite adverb male (badly): maleducato/a/i/e – male plus educare (to educate) = badly-behaved, ill-mannered: Giorgio è un bambino proprio maleducato (Giorgio is a really…
One Muddy Day in Tuscany Posted by Geoff on Apr 9, 2013
Would the book/film ‘Under The Tuscan Sun’ have met such great success if it had been entitled ‘Under The Tuscan Rain’? I doubt it. Of course Tuscany, in the minds of most romantically inclined foreigners, is synonymous with sunshine. If you’ve only ever spent a couple of idyllic sultry weeks in our fair region it’s…
Benvenuto! Posted by Serena on Mar 22, 2013
The two adverbs bene (well, good) and male (bad, badly) are combined with a variety of words in order to express a positive or negative value. Today we’ll be looking at some of the most common words built with ‘bene’, starting with the greetings: benvenuto/a/i/e – bene plus venire (to come) = welcome: Siete sempre…
Ai Gatti Non Piace La Pioggia! Posted by Geoff on Mar 12, 2013
Ai gatti non piace la pioggia, questo lo so perché sono gatta anch’io. Noi gatti siamo creature sensibili, ed anche se siamo capaci di sopportare tante cose che agli essere umani sarebbero insopportabili apprezziamo le comodità di un posto caldo, asciutto, ed accogliente con una buona scorta di croccantini, proprio come la casa di Geoff…
Memorie Napoletane Posted by Serena on Mar 5, 2013
Tanti anni fa, quando studiavo archeologia all’Università di Pisa, la mia prof. di Egittologia fu invitata a dare una serie di lezioni al prestigioso Istituto di Studi Orientali di Napoli. L’Istituto metteva a disposizione un limitato numero di borse di studio per gli studenti di Orientalistica che volessero partecipare a questi seminari della durata di…
Annalisa e Claudio fanno una passeggiata nella neve Posted by Geoff on Feb 27, 2013
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had a lot of snow. Now, seeing the landscape transformed in such a sudden and dramatic manner is a wonderful experience … for a couple of days! Then the boredom sets in: va bene, signora Natura, hai fatto una cosa splendida e molto impressionante, ma adesso basta, ci…