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Beppe Grillo rattles the establishment.

Various Italian politicos are going on both the defensive and the attack with regard to Mr Grillo’s attempts to get Italy back onto a truly democratic track. Aside from Bertinotti, we now have D’Alema and Fassino having a go at dismissing Mr Grillo for having had the temerity to have stated that all is not […]

U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Italy.

Addresses and contact details. United States Embassy in Rome via Vittorio Veneto, 119/A 00187 Roma, Italy tel: (+39) 06.4674.1 (main switchboard) fax: (+39) 06.4674.2356 website: http://rome.usembassy.gov/english/ Opening Hours: U.S. Citizen services: Monday-Friday 8:30-12:30 Notarial services: Tuesday and Thursday, 14:00-15:30 American Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican) Via delle Terme Deciane, 26 00153 – Rome, Italy […]

British Embassies and Consulates in Italy.

Addresses and contact details. BRITISH EMBASSY IN ITALY Via XX Settembre 80 I-00187 ROMA RM Tel. (+39) 06 4220 0001 – Fax +39 06 42202335 Out of office hours: (+39) 06 4220 2603 e-mail: management.rome@fco.gov.uk www.britain.it Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00 (Sep-Jul), 08:00-14:00 (Aug) – Except on some UK and Italian public holidays Postal address from […]

Teachers and students.

Last night, an ex-student and friend of mine and I got together for a pint and a chat about our summer holidays and the three-week language course he did in Dublin. As he was feeling rather nostalgic about his Irish experience, we drank, yes, you guessed: Guinness. Between sips, it was very interesting to hear […]

Teaching by not teaching

While drifting around the www looking for information on flash photography I came across this quote: “The trick to education, is to teach people in such a way that they don’t realize they’re learning until it’s too late.” The person who uttered these wonderful words was the late Harold Eugene Edgerton, MIT professor and flash […]

Miffed, I am.

I got the ‘we want to do more speaking’ comment from my students today. Yet they make no attempt to try using English while working in pairs or groups as they do one of the activities I have set them. This is despite my repeatedly telling them that they need to speak in English. It’s […]

Saturday night’s all right for…….

….working!  Yes, that’s right.  I’m working.  Other half and little one have gone off down to Genova.  This means that I can get on with preparing for a meeting on Monday.   The meeting will be about a new course I’m cooking up with another guy.  This other guy is an expert on certain things financial […]

Italians and language learning.

I’ve heard this comment many times from my Italian students. It basically goes ‘Italians are not very good at/incapable of learning other languages’. Well, I have an appropriate response to this oft made comment: ‘bollocks’ (si equivala approssimante a ‘palle’ in italiano, credo). Sorry about the slight vulgarity, but sometimes it is one of the […]

Anyone know anyone who wants to teach Italian kids English?

Let’s see if the power of the web can help me out. A person where I work has asked me if I could suggest anyone who would be able to help her child and some other children learn English. Alas, I don’t know anyone, or rather I have not been able to find any one. […]