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The Italy You Don't Know

Burnt Midnight Oil

March 26, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Work Tagged With: blog, Italian, journalist, Language, news, Newspapers, teaching, TV, Useful, Writing

A Curious Inconsistency

March 2, 2008 by Alex Roe

Don't ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word 'giorno' - day, is a 'male' word, whereas the word for week - 'settimana' is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Language Tagged With: English, Italia, Italian, Language, odd

Man of Roma

January 28, 2008 by Alex Roe

Man of Roma writes a thoughtful blog. And he writes it very well, in my not so humble (see previous post) opinion. I wish I could write in Italian as well as he writes in English. One … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italians Tagged With: blog, English, Italia, Italian, Language, montezemolo

An Interesting Italian Word: Furbo

December 23, 2007 by Alex Roe

I suspect that Gege’ Bau, who commented on one of my posts recently, may know something about the meaning of the Italian word 'furbo'. In case you did not know, it means crafty, clever, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy Tagged With: Culture, Italia, Italian, Language

Sayings and phrases

November 10, 2007 by Alex Roe

Being infinitely curious, as I am, I find this site eternally interesting: Sayings and Phrases. You might too. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Language Tagged With: English, Language

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