Kids in Italy: Bambini with Cell Phones
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Yesterday I was walking down Via del Corso and I ran into a group of school kids on a field trip—probably about 7 or 8 years old. While distractedly following his classmates and teachers down this busy tourist street, the kid in front of me was furiously searching for something on his Motorola flip […]
Italglish Update
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Reading a magazine recently, I saw “checkare la mail” for the first time. (Translation: check email).
What? We can now say “checkare”? Since when? I must be so old-school, going around saying “controllare” which I THOUGHT was the Italian verb for check. Hmmm…
Not too long ago when I was waiting in a piazza to […]
What Italians Have Taught Me About Pasta
Friday, October 5th, 2007A lot, that’s for sure. Before I came to Italy my culinary vocabulary consisted more or less of “Chalupa,” Arby’s Roast Beef, and Wendy’s Bacon Double Cheeseburger. Oh, man. I was a walking clichè straight out of Supersize Me. Just over six years later, with the famous Meditteranean diet to the rescue (no instruction […]
Italian Lessons I Learned After Moving Here
Friday, September 21st, 2007I was just reflecting back on my journey to learn this beautiful language, and it occurred to me that a lot of the common, everyday phrases or words I use here in Rome, I learned here in Rome. There’s only so much a classroom course in the U.S. can cover, and of course what […]
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