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Learning Italian? Here are 20 Books to Help You

If you are learning Italian here are twenty popular books to help you learn Italian faster and more effectively. To learn Italian you need to learn lots of vocabulary and verbs. You also need to know about the glue, otherwise known as grammar, as it helps stick all the words and verbs together. While you are learning Italian, you […]

Try a Franglish Language Exchange

If you are looking for an opportunity to practice your Italian and you live or work in Milan, Italy, or if you are Italian and you want to improve your English, then a Franglish language exchange may be just what you are looking for. I was invited to try a Franglish language exchange and it was […]

How Italy Could Improve Its English

Two out of three Italians still do not speak half decent English according to a report compiled by Italian news website Linkiesta using Isfol Plus 2010 data. I teach English and from personal experience can confirm that in general the vast majority, around 80%, of young Italians I see do not know English well enough to […]

Surreal Legal Writing

Yes, I know it’s odd to say it, but today’s (it was still ‘today’ when I started writing this!) encounter with the advocates was a little bit on the surreal side.

Looking for an Italian English Reader?

Are you trying to learn Italian? If so, then there is an on-line Italian English reader service which may help you. By using an Italian English reader, you can see the differences between English and Italian grammar, revise and develop your vocabulary, and, indirectly, raise your chances of being able to hold conversations in Italian. […]

Translation Resource – Annual Report Terms

I had to do a short translation today about a forthcoming financial congress. One of the terms stumped me a little so I had a hunt around the web and came across this interesting .pdf document from the Abaxbank.

A Little Bit of Fun With Italian

Over at Bleeding Espresso, Michelle wrote a lovely little piece on Italian words which when mispronounced can raise eyebrows. I meant to do something similar one day, but she beat me to it. Well worth reading, it is: top 5 italian words you really don’t want to mispronounce Technorati Tags: Italian, language, funny

Did You Know?

In Italian, the word for ‘cat’ is ‘gatto’, whereas in Latin, or rather, ancient Italian, the word for ‘cat’ was ‘cattus’. This means that the English language word for ‘cat’ is closer to Latin than the modern Italian word ‘gatto’. Curious what you come across whilst researching the differences between civil and common law legal […]

Burnt Midnight Oil

A little while back I was asked to prepare a short two day workshop on how to write a press release in English for the Media Relations master at the business school where I often find myself. After burning copious amounts of that old midnight oil, I came up with such a course. The first […]