Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
Milan, Italy’s northern city
Right, this is your post. It was inspired by a recent email from a Blog from Italy reader, and by questions in other emails I’m receiving at the moment.
The short answer is -50°C, yes that is minus fifty. Well, the coldest place in Italy is in
“Bicycle Thieves,” directed by Vittorio De Sica, is a cinematic masterpiece that tells a poignant and moving story
In the past, Milan, where I live, was known for its pea souper fogs. In recent years, however,
‘Parenti Serpenti’ is actually the title of a very good Italian, er, ‘Christmas’ film. ‘Parenti’ does not, as one may think, mean ‘parents’. Instead it refers to everyone who makes up a family, commonly know as ‘relatives’ or ‘relations’.
There is a minor storm in a small teacup over the salaries paid to some of Italy’s public television personalities in these belt tightening times. ‘Public television’ in Italy refers to the partially state funded RAI channels, which receive income from an annual licence fee and lots and lots of commercial breaks.
At the end of the day, despite bickering politicians and dodgy organisation, life in Italy is not that bad.
Italy is very slowly, but not so surely, acknowledging that it has a corruption problem. Bribery is rife and the systems employed to pay bribes
