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The Curvy World Posted by Serena on Feb 6, 2014
Have you ever looked critically at a photo of yourself and felt like doing a little tweaking with Photoshop? I must admit that I have, but I’m not very clever with photo editing software. However, many people who spend a lot of their time under the spotlight go to great lengths to have the ‘perfect’…
Italian Grammar Quiz – The Solutions Posted by Serena on Jan 22, 2014
Here, as promised, are the correct answers to the quiz that we published a few days ago. If you haven’t already had a go at it you can find it here. 1. It keeps the wind off your face in the car. The correct answer is il parabrezza (literally ‘the breeze stopper, the windshield/windscreen of…
Grammar Quiz: Ne, The Answers Posted by Geoff on Oct 8, 2012
Here, as promised are the answers to last week’s quiz about ‘ne’, with a few explanatory notes. Ne used as a substitute for ‘of it’ or ‘of them’, in order to avoid repetition when talking about the quantity of something which has already been mentioned in the conversation. 1. Quante banane vuoi? (Give me…