<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105</id><updated>2012-01-21T21:39:33.511+01:00</updated><category term='Una foto tratta dal film Pranzo di Ferragosto'/><category term='La battaglia di Ponte Milvio'/><category term='ritratto di Angelo Poliziano'/><category term='la basilica di San Pietro'/><category term='l&apos;imperatore Claudio'/><category term='Roma'/><category term='Lorenzo Il magnifico'/><category term='Lago Cucchinadorza di Ovodda'/><category term='la basilica di Pompei'/><category term='Il barocco leccese'/><category term='Busto di Aristotele conservato a Palazzo Altaemps'/><category term='la locandina del film'/><title type='text'>Blog italiano - lingua italiana ma non solo</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>196</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4009770102462337638</id><published>2012-01-21T10:53:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T21:39:33.522+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Casa in vendita</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4xddj3T4uM/TxqLo5Q0BhI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Y2XwMYbdCn4/s1600/Foto%2Bultime%2B058.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4xddj3T4uM/TxqLo5Q0BhI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Y2XwMYbdCn4/s400/Foto%2Bultime%2B058.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700021813073151506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se qualcuno è interessato all'acquisto di questa proprietà situata a Gessopalena in Abruzzo mi scriva pure e fornirò maggiori dettagli, è in vendita per 105,000 euro o £85,000 sterline. Ecco alcuni dati in inglese:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descrizione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;large detached rustic house and outbuildings (former wine Inn) with a beautiful view of the mountains&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3270 square meters' grounds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;located in a beautiful secluded quiet area by the Abruzzo Mountains (7 kilometers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;654 meters above sea level&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at 800 metres from the town of Gessopalena in the Abruzzo region&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;plenty of fresh air and proximity to the seaside (35 kilometers). The area's natural beauty spots include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the river Aventino&lt;br /&gt;the Sant'Angelo lake&lt;br /&gt;the moutain chain Maiella&lt;br /&gt;Romans excavations&lt;br /&gt;the spectacular Cavallone grotto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at 1.15 hours distance from Pescara's International airport&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se qualcuno è interessato ad acquistare questa proprietà situata a Gessopalena in Abruzzo mi scriva pure e fornirò maggiori dettagli, è in vendita per 105,000 euro o £85,000 sterline&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4009770102462337638?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4009770102462337638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2012/01/casa-in-vendita.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4009770102462337638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4009770102462337638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2012/01/casa-in-vendita.html' title='Casa in vendita'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4xddj3T4uM/TxqLo5Q0BhI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Y2XwMYbdCn4/s72-c/Foto%2Bultime%2B058.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8938792403830510178</id><published>2012-01-03T17:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T17:24:55.899+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Buon Anno!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1DOzBqd_lqM/TwMrzuw-mYI/AAAAAAAAAN8/KRIu6Yyj_3Q/s1600/IMG_9837b-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; 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La poesia originale in inglese la trovate cliccando su questo link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KI0ESFOvi5QC&amp;pg=PA307&amp;lpg=PA307&amp;dq=%22speech+to+a+crowd+archibald+macleish&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=b4402wXxTh&amp;sig=fkLwrmn3azmAihBaTaRmxJIbC3M&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=KE3nTpKgJYW68gO3-uWCCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=9&amp;ved=0CFgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KI0ESFOvi5QC&amp;pg=PA307&amp;lpg=PA307&amp;dq=%22speech+to+a+crowd+archibald+macleish&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=b4402wXxTh&amp;sig=fkLwrmn3azmAihBaTaRmxJIbC3M&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=KE3nTpKgJYW68gO3-uWCCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=9&amp;ved=0CFgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Discorso a una folla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ditemi, amici pazienti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voi che attendete messaggi, da quale altra riva, da quale straniero &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di dove, era promessa la parola, chi doveva ammaestrarvi &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voi, che ascoltaste davanti a una mangiatoia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che ascoltaste un tempo presso gli oracoli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora presso le transenne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi aspettate, chi credete vi spiegherà&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ascoltaste per migliaia d’anni, ancora nessuna risposta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrittori di lettere notturne a madonna a cuor solitario&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ortografi incerti, aprite gli occhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi sono soltanto la terra e l’uomo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci siete solamente voi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nessun altro è al telefono, nessun altro bisbiglia nell’aria&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nessuno se non voi, premerà il campanello&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nessuno sa, se voi non sapete&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avete occhi, e quello che i vostri occhi vedono, è&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La terra che vedete è proprio quella che vi sta sotto gli occhi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il sole è veramente ottimo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le donne, sono veramente belle come le avete vedute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guardate il mondo, il mondo che non conquistate mai&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È proprio vero, che si può vivere nel mondo disattenti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perché aspettate di leggerlo in un libro allora&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrivetelo voi stessi, scrivete a voi stessi se è necessario&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dite a voi stessi che la terra è vostra, da prendere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In attesa di messaggi dalla tenebra, foste poveri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il mondo fu sempre vostro &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soltanto, non volete prenderlo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4317570494952994574?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2223913663152256936</id><published>2011-12-13T13:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T13:08:27.154+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il punto di vista di un'italiana sui vestiti invernali degli inglesi</title><content type='html'>Leggete qui di seguito il punto di vista di Manuela Saragosa, che ha scritto questo interessante articolo (che condivido molto!) sui diversi usi e costumi di inglesi e italiani riguardo all'abbigliamento nella stagione invernale:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16141184"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16141184&lt;a href=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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inglesi'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2354616450065825076</id><published>2011-11-13T11:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T12:01:46.971+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Endre Ady – Canto di liete esequie</title><content type='html'>Ciò che trascorre si fa brutto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nemmeno la tristezza è bella se è spenta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da lungo tempo odio il passato&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e dico ai piagnoni&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Beato chi seppellisce con lietezza”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cessare è l’ordine della gioia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e trasmutarsi in nuove forme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E senza fine vengono le gioie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutto ciò che è, è vergine fresca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lascia la zitella dei ricordi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e libero e lieto afferra il presente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi non è oggi, non è mai stato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ricordare è un peso da schiavi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’uomo libero dimentica e se ne va.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2354616450065825076?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2354616450065825076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/11/endre-ady-canto-di-liete-esequie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2354616450065825076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2354616450065825076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/11/endre-ady-canto-di-liete-esequie.html' title='Endre Ady – Canto di liete esequie'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6735820254056973079</id><published>2011-10-16T18:57:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T19:02:23.969+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Max - Paolo Conte</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dSIg58v0Epc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max era Max&lt;br /&gt;più tranquillo che mai,&lt;br /&gt;la sua lucidità&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smettila, Max,&lt;br /&gt;la tua facilità&lt;br /&gt;non semplifica, Max.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max&lt;br /&gt;non si spiega,&lt;br /&gt;fammi scendere, Max&lt;br /&gt;vedo un segreto&lt;br /&gt;avvicinarsi qui, Max&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6735820254056973079?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6735820254056973079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/10/max-paolo-conte.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-472857467904596044</id><published>2011-10-16T13:30:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T13:35:48.974+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blues in memoria</title><content type='html'>Fermate tutti gli orologi, isolate il telefono,&lt;br /&gt;fate tacere il cane con un osso succulento,&lt;br /&gt;chiudete i pianoforte, e tra un rullio smorzato&lt;br /&gt;portate fuori il feretro, si accostino i dolenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incrocino aeroplani lamentosi lassù&lt;br /&gt;e scrivano sul cielo il messaggio Lui È Morto,&lt;br /&gt;allacciate nastri di crespo al collo bianco dei piccioni,&lt;br /&gt;i vigili si mettano guanti di tela nera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lui era il mio Nord, il mio Sud, il mio Est ed Ovest,&lt;br /&gt;la mia settimana di lavoro e il mio riposo la domenica,&lt;br /&gt;il mio mezzodì, la mezzanotte, la mia lingua, il mio canto;&lt;br /&gt;pensavo che l'amore fosse eterno: e avevo torto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non servon più le stelle: spegnetele anche tutte;&lt;br /&gt;imballate la luna, smontate pure il sole;&lt;br /&gt;svuotatemi l'oceano e sradicate il bosco;&lt;br /&gt;perché ormai più nulla può giovare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W. 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Auden&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-472857467904596044?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/472857467904596044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blues-in-memoria.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/472857467904596044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/472857467904596044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blues-in-memoria.html' title='Blues in memoria'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8496313429372232314</id><published>2011-09-25T12:35:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T12:37:19.281+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Grande Sud</title><content type='html'>Una canzone di Eugenio Bennato&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pi2nM-0ER28" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-8496313429372232314?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/8496313429372232314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/grande-sud.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8496313429372232314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8496313429372232314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/grande-sud.html' title='Grande Sud'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/Pi2nM-0ER28/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8301515722873980251</id><published>2011-09-20T19:18:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T19:24:58.729+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La caduta - Umberto Polignano</title><content type='html'>Io così bene stavo tra le stelle..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poi..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Così come in un sasso&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono inciampato nella vita&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma per la vita:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu: Amore:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io mai rimpiansi quel beato cielo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; .....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fummo nel sole presi da un frastuono&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Già vita era ricordo  Amore il pianto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Un solo Amore?»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dissero gli alati&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Sì un solo amore»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rispondemmo in canto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Era la vita con le sue bellezze»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per la di noi tristezza piovve un anno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto che mare fece mare terra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto che il sole si chiamò miraggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’eternità passammo a raccontare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agli angeli curiosi a noi a braccetto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come potemmo morire d’un bacio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi uomini laggiù prede dei venti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;tratto dal Canzoniere dell'Amore e dell'Inferno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-8301515722873980251?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/8301515722873980251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/la-caduta-umberto-polignano.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8301515722873980251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8301515722873980251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/la-caduta-umberto-polignano.html' title='La caduta - Umberto Polignano'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4802211546522718780</id><published>2011-09-14T19:16:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T19:23:45.839+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Giorgio Conte - Gne gne</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Ascoltate questa bella canzone di Giorgio Conte, molto orecchiabile ma anche pungente:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NjpYZbYesZc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;e queste sono le parole:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io mi aspettavo, sai, da te&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una risposta "comme il faut"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E invece niente, invece, no&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un pugno in faccia era meglio, lo so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io mi aspettavo, sai, da te&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualocsa in più, qualcosa che&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non fosse una banalità&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non fosse il solito, scontato "bla bla"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ti faccio i complimenti e&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ti lascio con i tuoi "bnè gnè"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avevi tutto per piacer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gambe sottili, un bel seder!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occhioni azzurri, quasi blu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un seno enorme, un viso d'angelo, tu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In ogni ambiente, un figuron&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorrisi e invidie a profusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ma che fortuna quello lì&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portarsi a letto una stangona così ..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma la conversazione, ahimé!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si riduceva a dei "gné gné"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ti ho poi rivista alla TV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dieci anni dopo, forse di più&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un calendario e sopra tu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solite pose, un cliché déjà vu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Postare nuda, ma perché?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' stato imbarazzante o no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci dica i suoi progetti .e..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se all'orizzonte un fidanzato ora c'è..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una studiata pausa... e...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo hai seppellito di "gnè gne"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4802211546522718780?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4802211546522718780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/giorgio-conte-gne-gne.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4802211546522718780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4802211546522718780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/giorgio-conte-gne-gne.html' title='Giorgio Conte - Gne gne'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/NjpYZbYesZc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-541775410711721769</id><published>2011-09-13T19:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T19:18:11.841+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Una poesia di Umberto Polignano</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Infanzia campagnola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solo, io ero senza meta, erravo &lt;br /&gt;mai tanto bella mi sembrò la vita &lt;br /&gt;splendeva il sole, ero innamorato &lt;br /&gt;il più bel giorno da che sono nato &lt;br /&gt;mi dia un biglietto per il primo cielo &lt;br /&gt;l’amore qua nel mondo non è vero &lt;br /&gt;hai pensato all’amore, tu che hai gettato &lt;br /&gt;l’amore tra le spine &lt;br /&gt;andrai all’inferno e sarai dolente &lt;br /&gt;’angelico e il maligno in te si danno il cambio &lt;br /&gt;come sentinelle a notte tra la vita e la morte &lt;br /&gt;un santissimo amore dal vangelo secondo me &lt;br /&gt;ridi bacia il resto non è &lt;br /&gt;il cuore batte &lt;br /&gt;Il cuore è una puttana &lt;br /&gt;se mi amasse darei la vita per un filo d’erba&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-541775410711721769?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/541775410711721769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/una-poesia-di-umberto-polignano.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/541775410711721769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/541775410711721769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/09/una-poesia-di-umberto-polignano.html' title='Una poesia di Umberto Polignano'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3244112921908294655</id><published>2011-08-16T15:06:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T15:08:47.905+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Una poesia di Salvatore Quasimodo</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      ED E’ SUBITO SERA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra&lt;br /&gt;      trafitto da un raggio di sole:&lt;br /&gt;      ed è subito sera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ognuno sta solo al centro del suo territorio o al centro della sua città, allorché è colpito dalla illusione della felicità, dal raggio del sole che subito tramonta, e arriva la morte che porta via la vita e cancella ogni cosa. È il tema della solitudine insita in ogni uomo. Ognuno è solo con se stesso, anche se vicino agli altri. La solitudine si affievolisce, ma non scompare quando l’uomo trova l’amore di una donna e l’amore dei figli. Ma anche nelle migliori condizioni possibili egli è sempre solo: se si ammala è lui a soffrire e se muore è lui a morire. Gli altri possono fare molto, possono lenire le sofferenze ma non debellarla e non possono salvarle dalla malattia o dalla morte. Ogni uomo è solo con se stesso mentre si illude di poter capire la vita e si inganna di afferrare la felicità. Subito arriva la morte che rapina ogni illusione e ogni felicità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scritta nel 1930&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3244112921908294655?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3244112921908294655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/08/una-poesia-di-salvatore-quasimodo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3244112921908294655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3244112921908294655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/08/una-poesia-di-salvatore-quasimodo.html' title='Una poesia di Salvatore Quasimodo'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2512041155782851228</id><published>2011-07-24T12:05:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T12:24:23.366+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Falsi amici - Leave</title><content type='html'>The verb &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;to leave&lt;/span&gt; is only too often wrongly translated as &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;partire&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;lasciare&lt;/span&gt;. For instance, many students fall into the trap of translating literally a sentence such as this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I left home at 11&lt;br /&gt;Ho "lasciato" la casa alle 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is wrong, as the verb &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;lasciare&lt;/span&gt; has a narrower use in Italian. It is often used to convey the following meanings:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;abandon = ha lasciato il marito&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stop a sport/activity = ha lasciato il tennis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave somebody on their own = ha lasciato solo il figlio per tutta la giornata&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave somebody with somebody else = ha lasciato la bambina con la zia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;reserve/keep some food for somebody = ti ho lasciato una fetta di dolce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave in inheritance = ha lasciato la casa ai figli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave traces = lasciare le impronte sulla pistola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how you should translate &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;leave&lt;/span&gt; in the sentence at the top:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I left home at 11 = &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;sono uscito&lt;/span&gt; di casa alle 11&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2512041155782851228?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2512041155782851228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/falsi-amici-depart.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2512041155782851228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2512041155782851228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/falsi-amici-depart.html' title='Falsi amici - Leave'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4038591099619045112</id><published>2011-07-09T11:32:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T11:40:36.593+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ginestre spinose - Gorse Bushes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3uSTNkAs_wE/Thgh2VrUWNI/AAAAAAAAANs/kC6IiWMQln0/s1600/Gorse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3uSTNkAs_wE/Thgh2VrUWNI/AAAAAAAAANs/kC6IiWMQln0/s400/Gorse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627284951814920402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pubblico una poesia della mia studentessa Sara, originariamente in inglese e che poi tradotta in italiano:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rampant colonist, marching across the ancient land&lt;br /&gt;Blazing yellow swathes down to the sea&lt;br /&gt;Dense and impenetrable, its spiny fingers&lt;br /&gt;Stretch to the cluster of islands drowning in mist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colonizzatore rampante, marcia attraverso l'antica terra&lt;br /&gt;Con sfolgoranti fasce gialle verso il mare&lt;br /&gt;Dense e impenetrabili, le sue dita spinose&lt;br /&gt;Si allungano verso le isole che annegano nella nebbia&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4038591099619045112?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4038591099619045112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/ginestre-spinose-gorse-bushes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4038591099619045112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4038591099619045112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/ginestre-spinose-gorse-bushes.html' title='Ginestre spinose - Gorse Bushes'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3uSTNkAs_wE/Thgh2VrUWNI/AAAAAAAAANs/kC6IiWMQln0/s72-c/Gorse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4648522459811174886</id><published>2011-07-01T17:24:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T17:29:29.186+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Three men go to Venice</title><content type='html'>I prime due episodi della serie della BBC, in cui tre volti noti della TV si improvvisano esploratori dell'Adriatico in rotta verso Venezia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0125t4z/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0125t4z/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b012b2ls/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b012b2ls/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4648522459811174886?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4648522459811174886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-men-go-to-venice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4648522459811174886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4648522459811174886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-men-go-to-venice.html' title='Three men go to Venice'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5278008342732654482</id><published>2011-07-01T12:13:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T23:10:11.002+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Alla sbarra con Danilo Restivo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AvuqujVeuAw/Tg2g0GNrXWI/AAAAAAAAANk/1XROsEbxIzo/s1600/Restivo__11_05_11_Winchester.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AvuqujVeuAw/Tg2g0GNrXWI/AAAAAAAAANk/1XROsEbxIzo/s400/Restivo__11_05_11_Winchester.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624328326537239906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel corso degli ultimi due mesi ho assistito Danilo Restivo nel mio ruolo di interprete per l'intera durata del processo tenutosi a Winchester che, come è noto, si è concluso con la sua condanna all'ergastolo. Cliccate su questo link per leggere un ottimo articolo di Tobias Jones, che riassume alla perfezione i punti salienti della vicenda:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/29/danilo-restivo-murder-conviction-iceberg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/29/danilo-restivo-murder-conviction-iceberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo sketch è stato gentilmente messo a disposizione da Tony Serpini della Serpini Pictures, autore della maggior parte dei servizi su Restivo trasmessi da Canale 5. L'autrice del disegno è Priscilla Coleman.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5278008342732654482?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5278008342732654482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/alla-sbarra-assieme-danilo-restivo.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5278008342732654482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5278008342732654482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/07/alla-sbarra-assieme-danilo-restivo.html' title='Alla sbarra con Danilo Restivo'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AvuqujVeuAw/Tg2g0GNrXWI/AAAAAAAAANk/1XROsEbxIzo/s72-c/Restivo__11_05_11_Winchester.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2244300260986745169</id><published>2011-06-18T17:35:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-18T17:40:36.917+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Preposizioni</title><content type='html'>Prepositions are a sticky point in Italian; which ones should you use, when, and when should you not use them? Let’s look at one common mistake:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vengo &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;da&lt;/span&gt; Francia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here the preposition "da" is the right choice, but needs to be combined to the definite article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vengo &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;dalla&lt;/span&gt; Francia (I come from France)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another mistake: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei un libro &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;per&lt;/span&gt; leggere in vacanza&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this type of sentence, what should be used is not "per" but "da":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei un libro &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;da&lt;/span&gt; leggere in vacanza (I’d like a book to read on holiday)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some more examples about that point:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Londra ci sono molte cose da vedere&lt;br /&gt;In London there are many things to see)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi ho molte cose da fare &lt;br /&gt;(Today I have many things to do)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In frigo non c'è molto da mangiare &lt;br /&gt;(In the fridge there isn’t much to eat)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here are some sentences where the preposition is either unnecessary, missing, wrong or incomplete:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Partirò&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; al&lt;/span&gt; weekend prossimo  &lt;br /&gt;Partirò &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;il&lt;/span&gt; prossimo weekend&lt;br /&gt;I’ll leave next weekend &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giocare calcio  &lt;br /&gt;Giocare &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; calcio&lt;br /&gt;To play football &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi alzo all’otto &lt;br /&gt;Mi alzo &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;alle&lt;/span&gt; otto&lt;br /&gt;I get up at eight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di fronte del parco &lt;br /&gt;Di fronte &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;al&lt;/span&gt; parco&lt;br /&gt;In front of the park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La partita finisce &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;a le&lt;/span&gt; mezzogiorno  &lt;br /&gt;La partita finisce &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; mezzogiorno&lt;br /&gt;The match finishes at midday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Torno &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;alla &lt;/span&gt;casa domani &lt;br /&gt;Torno &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; casa a domani&lt;br /&gt;I go back home tomorrow&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2244300260986745169?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2244300260986745169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/06/preposizioni.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2244300260986745169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2244300260986745169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/06/preposizioni.html' title='Preposizioni'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8679677841479499198</id><published>2011-06-05T11:20:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T11:28:52.070+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I am going to..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I'm going to + verb &lt;/span&gt;should not be translated literally (in some cases). In French you would say: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;je vais + verb&lt;/span&gt;, in Italian such expression doesn't exist, unless of course what you mean to say is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I am going from A to B&lt;/span&gt;, as in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to Rome&lt;br /&gt;Vado a Roma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you going to work today?&lt;br /&gt;Vai a lavorare oggi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to phone the police (if you are literally going from A to B in order to make the phone call)&lt;br /&gt;Vado a telefonare alla polizia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If what you mean to do is signal a personal intention or make a prediction, do not use the verb “to go”. You should use instead the present tense, occasionally the future, or possibly the construction &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;stare per + verb&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I’m going to throw away all my old clothes &lt;br /&gt;Oggi &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;butto&lt;/span&gt; tutti i miei vecchi vestiti&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;Oggi &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;ho intenzione di&lt;/span&gt; buttare tutti i miei vecchi vestiti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I grow up I’m going to be a pilot&lt;br /&gt;Da grande &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;farò&lt;/span&gt; il pilota&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is going to rain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sta per&lt;/span&gt; piovere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to faint&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sto per&lt;/span&gt; svenire&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-8679677841479499198?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/8679677841479499198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-am-going-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8679677841479499198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8679677841479499198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-am-going-to.html' title='I am going to..'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6261087805664389270</id><published>2011-05-30T18:07:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T18:12:26.370+02:00</updated><title type='text'>L'omo e la scimmia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_GtLmxlFbDc/TePB43TojEI/AAAAAAAAANY/nxeFm6roemU/s1600/monkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_GtLmxlFbDc/TePB43TojEI/AAAAAAAAANY/nxeFm6roemU/s400/monkey.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612542743296904258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una poesia di Trilussa in dialetto romanesco, che si abbina bene alla foto della mia scimmietta di peluche!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;L' Omo disse a la Scimmia:&lt;br /&gt;-Sei brutta , dispettosa:&lt;br /&gt;ma come sei ridicola!&lt;br /&gt;ma quanto sei curiosa!&lt;br /&gt;Quann' io te vedo, rido:&lt;br /&gt;rido nun se sa quanto!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Scimmia disse : - Sfido!&lt;br /&gt;T' arissomijo tanto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e adesso la versione in italiano:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’Uomo disse alla Scimmia: “Sei brutta, dispettosa ma come sei ridicola! ma quanto sei curiosa! Quando io ti vedo, rido: rido non si sa quanto!…” La Scimmia disse:” Sfido! T’assomiglio così tanto! “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6261087805664389270?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6261087805664389270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/lomo-e-la-scimmia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6261087805664389270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6261087805664389270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/lomo-e-la-scimmia.html' title='L&apos;omo e la scimmia'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_GtLmxlFbDc/TePB43TojEI/AAAAAAAAANY/nxeFm6roemU/s72-c/monkey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7586216998631788912</id><published>2011-05-21T17:22:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T17:28:21.508+02:00</updated><title type='text'>How to say "stop"!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;To stop &lt;/span&gt;typically can be translated as &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;smettere&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;fermare&lt;/span&gt;. There are of course other possible translations, but I'll concentrate on these two, which are the most common and also the most commonly mixed up. As it is impossible to single out a rule that categorically says when you should use one or the other, the best thing to do is provide some examples of usage, which will show that &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;smettere&lt;/span&gt; tends to be used in a more generic and abstract manner than &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;fermare&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Smettere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devi smettere di fumare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;You must stop smoking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi stai dando fastidio, smettila! (smettila here is a generic request to stop doing something)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;You are annoying me, stop it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha appena smesso di piovere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;It has just stopped raining&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smetto di fare questo lavoro se non mi danno un aumento&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I’ll stop doing this job if they don’t give me a rise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Fermare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ferma la macchina, voglio scendere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Stop the car, I want to get ou&lt;/span&gt;t&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ferma la registrazione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Stop the recording&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Fermarsi &lt;/span&gt;(reflexive)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fermati, mi stai facendo male&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Stop it, you are hurting myself&lt;/span&gt; (I’m asking you to physically stop what you are doing)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fermatevi a dormire a casa nostra  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Stop to sleep at our house&lt;/span&gt; (we can put you up for the night)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7586216998631788912?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7586216998631788912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-say-stop.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7586216998631788912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7586216998631788912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-say-stop.html' title='How to say &quot;stop&quot;!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-236999407852973651</id><published>2011-05-10T20:32:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T20:41:17.246+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di Io Sono l'Amore</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_0A1h6UO5c/TcmGmRJK8DI/AAAAAAAAANQ/VGJEIdCQhG0/s1600/Tilda-Swinton-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_0A1h6UO5c/TcmGmRJK8DI/AAAAAAAAANQ/VGJEIdCQhG0/s400/Tilda-Swinton-001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605159203234312242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday 20th May at 6.45 pm in the Griffith lecture theatre the following film will be screened: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I Am Love&lt;/span&gt; (2009) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, follows a haute bourgeoisie family through changing times and fortunes, and its disruption by the force of passion. The cast is led by Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi. Co-producers Swinton and Guadagnino developed the film together over an 11-year period.&lt;br /&gt;The film premiered in the United States at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and premiered in both the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival.&lt;br /&gt;The title is taken from a line from the aria 'La Mamma Morta', which is explored in the film Philadelphia (starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington), a scene which Emma is watching while in bed with her husband, during the film. The film's soundtrack uses pre-existing compositions by John Adams.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-236999407852973651?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/236999407852973651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/proiezione-di-io-sono-lamore.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/236999407852973651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/236999407852973651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/proiezione-di-io-sono-lamore.html' title='Proiezione di Io Sono l&apos;Amore'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_0A1h6UO5c/TcmGmRJK8DI/AAAAAAAAANQ/VGJEIdCQhG0/s72-c/Tilda-Swinton-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-744743349766117984</id><published>2011-05-05T21:15:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T21:17:42.209+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Two greedy Italians</title><content type='html'>Cliccate sul link sottostante per vedere un bel programma TV della BBC sui legami tra cibo e famiglia in Italia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0110c5x/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0110c5x/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-744743349766117984?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/744743349766117984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-greedy-italians.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/744743349766117984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/744743349766117984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-greedy-italians.html' title='Two greedy Italians'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7581767201646565268</id><published>2011-04-30T10:40:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-30T10:44:26.439+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La notte in città</title><content type='html'>È bella di notte la città. C'è pericolo ma pure libertà. Ci girano quelli senza sonno, gli artisti, gli assassini, i giocatori, stanno aperte le osterie, le friggitorie, i caffè. Ci si saluta, ci si riconosce, tra quelli che campano di notte. Le persone si perdonano i vizi. La luce del giorno accusa, lo scuro della notte dà l'assoluzione. Escono i trasformati, uomini vestiti da donna, perché così gli dice la natura e nessuno li scoccia. Nessuno chiede conto di notte. Escono gli storpi, i ciechi, gli zoppi, che di giorno vengono respinti. È una tasca rivoltata, la notte nella città. Escono pure i cani, quelli senza casa. Aspettano la notte per cercare gli avanzi, quanti cani riescono a campare senza nessuno. Di notte la città è un paese civile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tratto da &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Il giorno prima della felicità&lt;/span&gt; di Erri De Luca&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7581767201646565268?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7581767201646565268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-notte-in-citta.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7581767201646565268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7581767201646565268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-notte-in-citta.html' title='La notte in città'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6755281105040356560</id><published>2011-04-17T14:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T14:33:51.322+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Food Programme 2</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per ascoltare la seconda puntata di Food programme, in cui viene esplorata la mafia in Sicilia e il modo in cui alcune imprese agro-alimentari hanno deciso di ribellarsi ai suoi tentacoli:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0105rhg"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0105rhg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6755281105040356560?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6755281105040356560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-programme-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6755281105040356560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6755281105040356560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-programme-2.html' title='Food Programme 2'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1378408438409517013</id><published>2011-04-16T12:23:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T12:29:32.643+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Metà o Mezzo?</title><content type='html'>Some students of mine, when talking about their nationality, tell me that they are "half and half", for instance half English and half French. They say: sono mezzo/a inglese e mezzo/a francese. I correct them and say: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;sono metà inglese e metà francese&lt;/span&gt;. It would sound even better to add a preposition and say: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;sono &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;per&lt;/span&gt; metà inglese e &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;per&lt;/span&gt; metà francese&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;metà&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;mezzo&lt;/span&gt; can be used interchangeably, but always bear in mind that &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;metà&lt;/span&gt; is an accented word and is unchanged, whereas &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;mezzo&lt;/span&gt; does change gender and number as necessary. Here are some sentences that show you various uses of both words. In the last example both are possible (to some extend): &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Le posso fare lo sconto della metà del prezzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can give you a discount of half the price&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivati a metà strada, si è rotta la macchina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrived half-way through, the car broke down&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Arriviamo tra mezz’ora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ll arrive in half an hour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;È mezzo matto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is half mad (he is a bit crazy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Vuoi tutta la mela?&lt;/span&gt; Do you want the whole apple?&lt;br /&gt;b. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;No, solo la metà&lt;/span&gt;     No, only half&lt;br /&gt;c. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;No, solo mezza&lt;/span&gt;      No, only half  (more colloquial)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice that "mid" tends to be translated as "metà": &lt;br /&gt;metà marzo = mid March&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1378408438409517013?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1378408438409517013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/meta-o-mezzo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1378408438409517013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1378408438409517013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/meta-o-mezzo.html' title='Metà o Mezzo?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2163038476895117452</id><published>2011-04-10T14:07:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T12:45:26.481+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di due film stranieri</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yr_DPOmzWj8/TaGi4peFhBI/AAAAAAAAANI/zstAqQEokrQ/s1600/8757202_det.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yr_DPOmzWj8/TaGi4peFhBI/AAAAAAAAANI/zstAqQEokrQ/s400/8757202_det.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593931306259285010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eUVsN3_iN9E/TaGi0LbNPKI/AAAAAAAAANA/RSp0eJxuKIA/s1600/MV5BMTU5MjA3ODIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjQ3MzY5._V1._SY317_CR4%252C0%252C214%252C317_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 317px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eUVsN3_iN9E/TaGi0LbNPKI/AAAAAAAAANA/RSp0eJxuKIA/s400/MV5BMTU5MjA3ODIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjQ3MzY5._V1._SY317_CR4%252C0%252C214%252C317_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593931229474667682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th May at 6.45 pm in the Griffith lecture theatre the following films will be screened:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Lunedì&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;El Orfanato&lt;/span&gt; (The Orphanage) 2007&lt;br /&gt;Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime time 1 hr. 45 min.&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Suspense&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laura purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unravelling the mystery that has taken over the place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Martedì&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Le gout des autres&lt;/span&gt; (The Taste of Others) 2000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime time 112 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Factory owner Castella is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a wife who spends more time cluttering up their home with chintz than showing genuine affection. Frustrated and unloved, he falls madly in love with an actress in a local theatre production - who just happens to be the English teacher he fired a few days earlier.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2163038476895117452?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2163038476895117452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/proiezione-di-due-film-stranieri.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2163038476895117452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2163038476895117452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/proiezione-di-due-film-stranieri.html' title='Proiezione di due film stranieri'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yr_DPOmzWj8/TaGi4peFhBI/AAAAAAAAANI/zstAqQEokrQ/s72-c/8757202_det.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4793176108239151733</id><published>2011-04-05T13:38:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T13:43:30.357+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Food Programme</title><content type='html'>Cliccate sul link per ascoltare la trasmissione di Radio 4 &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Food Programme&lt;/span&gt;, in cui si parla del modo in cui l'Unificazione italiana ha influito (o meno ) sulle traduzioni culinarie in Sicilia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/zzn2f/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/zzn2f/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4793176108239151733?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4793176108239151733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-programme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4793176108239151733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4793176108239151733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-programme.html' title='Food Programme'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4540499265503626815</id><published>2011-04-04T21:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T21:50:31.862+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Festival del Cinema Italiano</title><content type='html'>Ringrazio Roger per avermi segnalato il festival del Cinema in corso in questo momento a Londra, fino al 10 aprile, presso i Riverside Studios di Hammersmith. Cliccate sul link sottostante per avere ulteriori informazioni:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/season.pl?f=Italian%20Cinema%20London"&gt;http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/season.pl?f=Italian%20Cinema%20Lond&lt;/a&gt;on&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4540499265503626815?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4540499265503626815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/festival-del-cinema-italiano.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4540499265503626815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4540499265503626815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/04/festival-del-cinema-italiano.html' title='Festival del Cinema Italiano'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3829318653124558709</id><published>2011-03-12T20:41:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T20:47:10.403+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di Bellissima</title><content type='html'>On Friday 25th March at 6.00 pm in the Griffith lecture theatre there will be the screening of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bellissima&lt;/span&gt;, a 1951 neorealist film directed by Luchino Visconti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime 115 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Drama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maddalena (Anna Magnani) is a screenstruck mother convinced of her daughter Maria’s (Tina Apicella) star potential. Dreaming of a better life for her family – as a means of escape from the struggles of everyday existence in working-class Rome – she invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting. However, on overhearing the film crew’s candid assessment of her daughter’s audition (in what Variety described in 1952 as “one of the cruellest scenes ever filmed”) Maddalena is forced to reconsider her views on the film industry and its world of illusions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3829318653124558709?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3829318653124558709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/proiezione-di-bellissima.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3829318653124558709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3829318653124558709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/proiezione-di-bellissima.html' title='Proiezione di Bellissima'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1316179831097502091</id><published>2011-03-08T11:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T12:01:54.839+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Una citazione di Luigi Barzini</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;In the heart of every man, wherever he is born, whatever his education and tastes, there is one small corner which is Italian, that part which finds regimentation irksome, the dangers of war frightening, strict morality stifling, that part which loves frivolous and entertaining art, admires larger-than-life-size solitary heroes, and dreams of an impossible liberation from the strictures of a tidy existence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1316179831097502091?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1316179831097502091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/una-citazione-di-luigi-barzini.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1316179831097502091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1316179831097502091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/una-citazione-di-luigi-barzini.html' title='Una citazione di Luigi Barzini'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4411143428066316749</id><published>2011-03-04T21:39:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T21:47:00.455+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Livemocha</title><content type='html'>One of my best students, Douglas Corr, has recently sent me this email about Livemocha. His email was so thorough  and the information so well explained that I thought it deserved to be reproduced "verbatim":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Dear Valeria,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I read about Livemocha in the buisiness pages of the Independent about 10 days ago, it was in an article about a business venture with Harper Collins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's roughly a sort of Facebook for language learning ( I think there are 35 languages!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livemocha.com"&gt;http://www.livemocha.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has free functionality as well as stuff that you have to pay for.  I have been investigating the free functions for Italian and German. It seems to me to be suitable for beginers up to around the level of our class, but I think there is possibly unlimited potential for conversation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically there are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    * Written exercises&lt;br /&gt;    * Spoken exercises&lt;br /&gt;    * Flip cards&lt;br /&gt;    * Chat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The written and spoken exercises are marked by native speakers who are other learners and who select which ones they mark; this means you are not guaranteed to get your work marked (but see friends below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You improve your status on the site by doing exercises and by marking exercises - you get a score and various awards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make progress you need to find others learning English so that they can help you and you can help them in return - these people become your friends.  This helps you to get your things marked. So I tried to find Italians and Germans learning English, and I now have 12 friends! I marked so much stuff last week I became English Tutor of the Week! This will help to ensure that my requests to be a friend don't get rejected. I have had some very kind encouraging comments from people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't tried the Chat yet (with microphone); this seems to me to be potentially the most useful -although a bit daunting to start...  My objective is to try this out before the end of March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be a vast number of people from all countries learning English, especially from China, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Roumania and Russia. There is a much smaller number learning German and less still learning Italian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you will find this an exciting learning tool for students.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4411143428066316749?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4411143428066316749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/livemocha.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4411143428066316749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4411143428066316749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/03/livemocha.html' title='Livemocha'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1347119644956714106</id><published>2011-02-20T13:52:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T14:08:20.811+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Is the subjunctive on its way to extinction?</title><content type='html'>My answer to this question is a resounding &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt;. The subjunctive, the mood of uncertainty and politeness, is still very much in use in the Italian language, particularly in formal and written register, and to some extent it separates out those who have had a good education from those who haven't (but it must be stressed that Italians don't always get it right, and even when they are highly educated, they might intentionally choose to replace it with the indicative (&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;penso che sia&lt;/span&gt; becomes &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;penso che è&lt;/span&gt;), to sound more natural and less aloof). Leaving aside socio-linguistic considerations, one of the main reasons why the subjective is sometime perceived as awkward is that the first three persons of the singular form are identical, which can lead to ambiguity. For instance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Vorrei che faccia come dico io&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;can be translated as &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I’d like you to do as I say&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I’d like he/she to do as I say&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way to get round this ambiguity (if the context doesn’t help) is to add the subject pronoun:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei che &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;tu&lt;/span&gt; faccia come dico io&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei che &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;lui/lei&lt;/span&gt; faccia come dico io&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are cases in which the subjunctive can’t be avoided, for instance after the word &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;affinchè&lt;/span&gt;. But of course it's also quite easy to avoid saying &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;affinchè&lt;/span&gt; and therefore avoid the subjunctive altogether. This is typical of spoken Italian where, for convenience of use and speed, the imperfect subjunctive is often replaced by the imperfect of the indicative:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Franco pensava che il treno &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;arrivasse &lt;/span&gt;in ritardo (subjunctive - formal/written language)&lt;br /&gt;Franco pensava che il treno &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;arrivava&lt;/span&gt; in ritardo (imperfect - informal/spoken language)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1347119644956714106?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1347119644956714106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-subjunctive-on-its-way-to-extinction.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1347119644956714106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1347119644956714106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-subjunctive-on-its-way-to-extinction.html' title='Is the subjunctive on its way to extinction?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-373375077944513627</id><published>2011-01-25T12:54:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T13:06:26.794+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Carpets and walls</title><content type='html'>Many houses in the UK have carpets, but this is very rare in Italy. That's probably why we had to borrow the French word &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;la moquette&lt;/span&gt; to indicate the carpet. I’ve noticed that the vast majority of students, when looking to translate &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;carpet&lt;/span&gt;, resort to &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;tappeto, &lt;/span&gt;perhaps because they are misled by their dictionary. But &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;tappeto&lt;/span&gt; means &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;rug &lt;/span&gt;not &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;carpet&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;! Unless what you are trying to convey is something slightly less mundane such as:&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; carpet of leaves&lt;/span&gt; =&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; tappeto di foglie&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And did you know that the walls in a house are called&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; pareti&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appendiamo il quadro su quella parete&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Let’s hang the painting on that wall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;parete&lt;/span&gt; is an internal wall within a house or a building, which has been properly done up and decorated. Il&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; muro&lt;/span&gt; is a much more generic expression which refers to any wall, in or out of a building. If the wall is a big one, for instance the one surrounding an old town, than it becomes feminine (and it is only used as a plural):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le antiche mura della città &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The ancient walls of the town&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big wall in China is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;la&lt;/span&gt; (grande) &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;muraglia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; cinese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-373375077944513627?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/373375077944513627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/carpets-and-walls.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/373375077944513627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/373375077944513627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/carpets-and-walls.html' title='Carpets and walls'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5771798943419419623</id><published>2011-01-22T18:05:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-22T18:10:48.022+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di Mar Adentro</title><content type='html'>On Tuesday 8th February at 6.45 pm in 03MS01 there will be the screening of the Spanish film &lt;strong&gt;Sea Inside&lt;/strong&gt; (Mar Adentro - 2005) by Alejandro Amenábar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime 126 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Biography / Drama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information about the film can be found on this link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/02/01/the_sea_inside_2005_review.shtml"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/02/01/the_sea_inside_2005_review.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5771798943419419623?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5771798943419419623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/proiezione-di-mar-adentro.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5771798943419419623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5771798943419419623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/proiezione-di-mar-adentro.html' title='Proiezione di Mar Adentro'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7865017866716165451</id><published>2011-01-18T19:52:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T19:53:42.788+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Un'altra comunicazione di servizio!</title><content type='html'>The screening of the film &lt;strong&gt;Io non ho paura&lt;/strong&gt; has been rescheduled for Friday 4th February at 6.45 pm (all other details stay unchanged).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7865017866716165451?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7865017866716165451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/unaltra-comunicazione-di-servizio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7865017866716165451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7865017866716165451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/unaltra-comunicazione-di-servizio.html' title='Un&apos;altra comunicazione di servizio!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-894283875564583328</id><published>2011-01-15T16:04:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T16:06:30.699+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Comunicazione di servizio!</title><content type='html'>Unfortunately the DVD player in the Management lecture theatre isn't working at the moment so I'll have to cancel my film screening scheduled for the 19th of January. There will be a new post once the film has been rescheduled.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-894283875564583328?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/894283875564583328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/comunicazione-di-servizio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/894283875564583328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/894283875564583328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/comunicazione-di-servizio.html' title='Comunicazione di servizio!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8268556659052719208</id><published>2011-01-11T20:38:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-11T20:53:27.563+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Falsi amici</title><content type='html'>Should &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;subject&lt;/span&gt; be translated as &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;soggetto&lt;/span&gt;? It really all depends what you are trying to say. If the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;subject&lt;/span&gt; you are referring to is a grammar concept, than by all means. But if what you are referring to is "topic", than the answer is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt;, in that case the translation is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;argomento&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Let's change the subject&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cambiamo argomento&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;subject&lt;/span&gt; you have in mind indicates what you study at school or university, for instance mathematics, history etc. than the right translation is&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; materia&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Che materie studi all’università?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What subjects are you studying at University?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another extremely common false friend is &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;classe&lt;/span&gt;, instead of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;lezione&lt;/span&gt;: “I'm going to my Italian class tonight", should not be translated as "Vado a classe di Italiano stasera". You should say instead “Vado a lezione di italiano”.&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; Classe&lt;/span&gt;, in a school context, indicates a classroom or a grouping of students by age, level or subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s not forget about &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;unfortunately&lt;/span&gt;, or &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;sadly&lt;/span&gt;, which tend to be translated as “tristemente”. And sadly this is wrong most of the time.. “Tristemente” in Italian is only used to indicate a really sad state of affairs. And when I say “sad”, I mean “weeping sad”. In most cases, it's unlikely the word you are going to need is “tristemente”, so better opt for &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;purtroppo&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly / unfortunately&lt;/span&gt; I was forced to leave a job I really loved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Purtroppo&lt;/span&gt; sono stato costretto a lasciare un lavoro che mi piaceva molto&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-8268556659052719208?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/8268556659052719208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/falsi-amici.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8268556659052719208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/8268556659052719208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/falsi-amici.html' title='Falsi amici'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-566744632249317403</id><published>2011-01-08T11:07:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T11:57:52.698+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Un commento di Aidan Marks</title><content type='html'>Pubblico un commento inviatomi da Aidan Marks, che mi ha contattato dopo aver letto il mio libro in Australia. Lo ringrazio caldamente per le sue parole di apprezzamento. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I just finished reading your book, 50 Ways to Improve Your Italian and&lt;br /&gt;&gt; wanted to thank you for putting together a clear and concise reference&lt;br /&gt;&gt; that answered many of the questions that have come up during my first&lt;br /&gt;&gt; year of Italian study, especially the more subtle ones.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Additionally, I would like to mention that you were able to explain&lt;br /&gt;&gt; certain things that even our experienced native teacher (who speaks very&lt;br /&gt;&gt; fluent english for over 25 years) could not.  I suspect that your high&lt;br /&gt;&gt; proficiency in english had a lot to do with it.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Naturally I will be recommending your book to others in my class here in&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Sydney, Australia.  I hope that you plan to continue formalising more of&lt;br /&gt;&gt; your knowledge and experience into future books.  Just in the area of&lt;br /&gt;&gt; grammar alone, I have five of them written in english and none of them&lt;br /&gt;&gt; are very satisfactory.  It is a constant game to find answers.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Once again, thank you for taking the time to put this book together.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-566744632249317403?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/566744632249317403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-commento-editoriale-di-aidan-marks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/566744632249317403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/566744632249317403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-commento-editoriale-di-aidan-marks.html' title='Un commento di Aidan Marks'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2960719667725907743</id><published>2011-01-04T18:10:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T18:14:56.780+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di Io non ho paura</title><content type='html'>On Wednesday 19 January at 6.45 pm in 03MS01 there will be the screening of the Italian film &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Io non ho paura&lt;/span&gt; (2003)by Gabriele Salvatores&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime 108 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Crime / Drama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In southern Italy, Michele, a bright ten-year-old boy, finds a filthy, incoherent boy chained in a cellar hidden outside his village, but fears to speak of it. Putting together what he learns from television, he begins to connect the boy, his own impoverished parents, and a series of unexplained visiting strangers, with a high-profile kidnapping that has the entire nation on edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2960719667725907743?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2960719667725907743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/proiezione-di-io-non-ho-paura.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2960719667725907743'/><link rel='self' 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d'aprile,&lt;br /&gt;un luglio fresco, un marzo gentile,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;voglio un giorno senza sera,&lt;br /&gt;voglio un mare senza bufera,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;voglio un pane sempre fresco,&lt;br /&gt;sul cipresso il fiore del pesco,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;che siano amici il gatto e il cane,&lt;br /&gt;che diano latte le fontane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se voglio troppo non darmi niente,&lt;br /&gt;dammi una faccia allegra solamente&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4738066612825772142?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4738066612825772142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/una-filastrocca-di-capodanno-di-gianni.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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Stein's Taste of Italian Opera</title><content type='html'>Un altro programma interessante della BBC4, nel quale si analizza il ruolo che ha svolto il cibo nella creazione dell'Opera:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/sm1g0/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/sm1g0/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4433915702666242810?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4433915702666242810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/rick-steins-taste-of-italian-opera.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4433915702666242810'/><link rel='self' 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intorno al tema della criminalità:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wwlll/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wwlll/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2669579506966117968?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2669579506966117968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/italian-noir.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2669579506966117968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2669579506966117968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/italian-noir.html' title='Italian noir'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1275354813495023285</id><published>2010-12-20T18:02:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T19:54:06.583+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The good, the bad and the ugly</title><content type='html'>Have you noticed that buono (good) is often translated as "bravo" in Italian? Bravo is a multi-faceted word with a variety of meanings, for instance: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;skilled, clever&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; or&lt;/span&gt; well-behaved&lt;/span&gt;: It is of course also used to show our delight at a show or performance (and should always agree in gender and number): Bravo! Brava! Bravi! Brave!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two good singers = due bravi cantanti / due cantanti bravi&lt;br /&gt;A very good doctor = una dottoressa molto brava&lt;br /&gt;A very good child = un bambino molto bravo/bravissimo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice that when buono (singular only) is put before a noun, in strict grammatical terms it should follows the same rule as the indefinite article. In fact, nowadays this doesn't always happen, as&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; buon&lt;/span&gt; tends to be used instead:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Uno&lt;/span&gt; studio&lt;br /&gt;Un buo&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; studio/Un buon studio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Un&lt;/span&gt; pranzo  &lt;br /&gt;Un buo&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt; pranzo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; bad kne&lt;/span&gt;e don’t say: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;ho un brutto &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ugly)&lt;/span&gt; ginocchio&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;ho un cattivo ginocchio&lt;/span&gt;.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can’t translate &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;bad&lt;/span&gt; literally and need to find a different turn of phrase to describe that or similar illnesses or conditions. If what you mean is that your knee hurts, you could say: “mi fa male il ginocchio”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1275354813495023285?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1275354813495023285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-bad-and-ugly.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1275354813495023285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1275354813495023285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-bad-and-ugly.html' title='The good, the bad and the ugly'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6020213541076778416</id><published>2010-12-19T20:20:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T20:22:18.888+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il panettone</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per ascoltare il programma The Food Programme, dove si parla della storia e della produzione del panettone:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wntyn/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wntyn/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6020213541076778416?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6020213541076778416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-panettone.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6020213541076778416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6020213541076778416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/12/il-panettone.html' title='Il panettone'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1825830545644340852</id><published>2010-12-16T16:21:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-16T16:26:37.831+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Vita e morte a Pompei</title><content type='html'>Cliccate sul link sottostante per vedere la trasmissione su Pompei andata in onda pochi giorni fa sulla BBC4 (disponibile per un tempo limitato!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wqfcx/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/wqfcx/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1825830545644340852?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-8114910775522371827</id><published>2010-12-14T11:42:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T11:44:54.412+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Natale italiano</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per poter leggere un articolo della BBC sugli usi e costumi degli italiani a Natale:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/christmas/italian/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/christmas/italian/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-8114910775522371827?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/8114910775522371827/comments/default' title='Post 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3601708404546117032</id><published>2010-11-30T11:40:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-30T11:44:18.381+01:00</updated><title type='text'>L'isola che non c'è</title><content type='html'>Ecco una bella canzone di Edoardo Bennato che risale agli anni '80:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMJdddUxOw&amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMJdddUxOw&amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E qui trovate il testo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.italianissima.net/testi/lisolach.htm"&gt;http://www.italianissima.net/testi/lisolach.ht&lt;/a&gt;m&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3601708404546117032?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3601708404546117032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/lisola-che-non-ce.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3601708404546117032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3601708404546117032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/lisola-che-non-ce.html' title='L&apos;isola che non c&apos;è'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-303826179737489396</id><published>2010-11-26T15:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-26T16:00:59.375+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Titles in politics</title><content type='html'>If you have a look at the Italian press or listen to the news, you’ll notice that politicians and other personalities are all referred to by their surname or by name and surname: no title such as signor or signora is added. If a politician is a minister, you may notice the word Ministro, in front of a surname, or the word Onorevole for a member of the Camera (the chamber of deputees). Senatore is reserved to members of Senato:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il ministro Germini&lt;br /&gt;L’onorevole Biondi&lt;br /&gt;Il senatore Andreotti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prime minister is usually referred to as "il premier” + their surname, for instance: il premier Berlusconi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president of the republic is commonly referred to "Presidente della Repubblica" or “Presidente + surname”. Occasionally he is simply addressed by surname (particularly after he has already been called “Presidente” at least once the beginning of the report). His wife is normally addressed to as "signora" + "christian name:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il presidente Napolitano ha visitato il luogo del terremoto. Napolitano ha poi incontrato i familiari delle vittime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;President Napolitano visited the earthwake site. He then met the victims’ relatives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il presidente Ciampi e sua moglie, la signora Franca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;President Ciampi and his wife, Mrs Franca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-303826179737489396?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/303826179737489396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/titles-in-politics.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/303826179737489396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/303826179737489396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/titles-in-politics.html' title='Titles in politics'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1257835618245985187</id><published>2010-11-11T15:04:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-11T15:10:26.279+01:00</updated><title type='text'>IN</title><content type='html'>&lt;IN&gt; generates many mistakes in Italian. In particular when students put this preposition in front of towns and cities and say for instance &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; Roma instead of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; Roma, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; Parigi, instead of&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; a&lt;/span&gt; Parigi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another mistake is due to the fact that we use  &lt;in&gt; in English to project ourselves in the future– I’ll phone you IN ten minutes – , we’ll come back IN a week – When this happens, the Italian translation of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;tra&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;fra&lt;/span&gt;. These two words can be used interchangeably but in this case they don’t mean at all “between”: ti telefono tra dieci minuti means that at the end of the ten minutes’ period (more or less), I will ring you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice that “within” is translated as “entro”:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The milk has to be drunk within a week:&lt;br /&gt;Il latte deve essere bevuto entro una settimana &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are of course many other cases in which &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;can be left as it is. For instance, if what you need to say is along these lines, than you do need a literal translation: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In less than 10 years the price of housing as gone up by 30%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In meno di 10 anni il prezzo delle case è aumentato del 30 %.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1257835618245985187?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1257835618245985187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1257835618245985187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1257835618245985187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/in.html' title='IN'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3384315137368869180</id><published>2010-11-04T00:05:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T12:02:10.042+01:00</updated><title type='text'>On the subject of subjects</title><content type='html'>The most common subject pronouns in Italian are: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;io, tu, lui, lei, noi, voi, loro&lt;/span&gt;. These are the pronouns you are most likely to need. There are a few more that you still occasionally might come across. I say occasionally as they are relegated to formal and written style. The most important are egli (he) and esso / essa (it), essi / esse (them). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might come across&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; egli&lt;/span&gt; in a religious or ancient text - but if you were to use it nowadays you would sound extremely pedantic and unnatural: a relict from ancient history! Esso and its variants are a bit more resistant to natural extinction, but tend to be confined to bureaucratic and formal registers. Therefore, a sentence such as the one below is utterly and completely wrong (it’s an extract from an email one of my students sent me – a self-confessed user of machine translation!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono stato in Italia in vacanza. Esso è stato meraviglioso (sbagliato!)&lt;br /&gt;Sono stato in Italia in vacanza. È stato meraviglioso&lt;/span&gt; (giusto)&lt;br /&gt;I have been on holiday in Italy. It was wonderful &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some examples of correct use of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;esso&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco la lettera e il documento ad essa allegato&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here is the letter and the document attached to it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La biblioteca contiene oltre 10 000 volumi. Molti di essi sono stati restaurati&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The library has over 10,000 books. Many of them have been repaired&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qui c’era l’antica città. Su di essa è stata costruita la città nuova&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here there was the old town. On it was built the new one&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3384315137368869180?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3384315137368869180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-subject-of-subjects.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3384315137368869180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3384315137368869180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-subject-of-subjects.html' title='On the subject of subjects'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-1158986858923699528</id><published>2010-11-02T14:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T14:20:31.599+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di Pranzo di Ferragosto</title><content type='html'>At the University of Surrey on Monday 6th December at 6.45 pm in 03MS01 there will be the screening of the Italian film "Pranzo di Ferragosto". Details as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) - 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime 75 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Comedy / Drama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An impoverished man agrees to take care of three elderly women for two days in August as a favour to his landlord. &lt;br /&gt;A rare example of sophisticated Italian comedy with excellent acting. Winner of the Future Golden Lion in Venice and Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival in 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. There will be a presentation before the screening and a discussion afterwards&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-1158986858923699528?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/1158986858923699528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/proiezione-di-pranzo-di-ferragosto.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1158986858923699528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/1158986858923699528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/11/proiezione-di-pranzo-di-ferragosto.html' title='Proiezione di Pranzo di Ferragosto'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-604030119019275764</id><published>2010-10-21T13:33:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-21T13:36:50.176+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Si parla di lingue straniere alla radio</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per ascoltare un'interessante intervista radiofonica tenuta proprio questa mattina dalla mia collega Sieglinde Ward sul tema delle lingue straniere e degli errori che si ripetono:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00bl7vv/Surrey_Breakfast_with_Nick_Wallis_21_10_2010/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00bl7vv/Surrey_Breakfast_with_Nick_Wallis_21_10_2010/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'intervista la trovate verso la fine, intorno al punto 2.42&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-604030119019275764?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/604030119019275764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/si-parla-di-lingue-straniere-alla-radio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/604030119019275764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/604030119019275764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/si-parla-di-lingue-straniere-alla-radio.html' title='Si parla di lingue straniere alla radio'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7154095063311987193</id><published>2010-10-16T16:40:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-16T16:42:44.690+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di un film francese</title><content type='html'>Just a reminder that on Wednesday 10 November at 6.45 pm in 03MS01 the following French film will be screened at the University of Surrey:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paris (2008)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Cédric Klapisch with Juliette Binoche and Roman Duris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime time 125 minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment. When Elise, his sister with three kids and no husband, moves in to his place to care for him, Pierre does not change his new habits. And instead of dancing himself, it is Paris and the Parisians who dance before his eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. There will be a presentation before the screening and a discussion afterwards&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7154095063311987193?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7154095063311987193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/proiezione-di-un-film-francese.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7154095063311987193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7154095063311987193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/proiezione-di-un-film-francese.html' title='Proiezione di un film francese'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2936533683562488364</id><published>2010-10-04T15:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-04T15:27:49.395+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Proiezione di un film spagnolo</title><content type='html'>On Thursday 21st October at 6.45 pm in 03MS01 there will be the screening of a Spanish film open to all students and staff at the University of Surrey:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El secreto de sus ojos (The secret in their eyes) - 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Runtime 127 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unpredictable and rich with symbolism, this Argentinean murder mystery lives up to its Oscar with an engrossing plot, Juan José Campanella's assured direction, and mesmerizing performances from its cast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. There will be a presentation before the screening and a discussion afterwards&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2936533683562488364?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2936533683562488364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/proiezione-di-un-film-spagnolo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2936533683562488364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2936533683562488364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/proiezione-di-un-film-spagnolo.html' title='Proiezione di un film spagnolo'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-862949411450551277</id><published>2010-10-01T20:16:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-01T20:38:13.599+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Un programma sulla pasta</title><content type='html'>Se cliccate su questo link potrete ascoltare un interessante programma sulla pasta, trasmesso da Radio 4 nell'ambito della trasmissione The Food Programme.&lt;br /&gt;Ecco il link: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/tx49y/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/tx49y/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-862949411450551277?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/862949411450551277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/un-programma-sulla-pasta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/862949411450551277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/862949411450551277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/10/un-programma-sulla-pasta.html' title='Un programma sulla pasta'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-732119127670168939</id><published>2010-09-28T21:43:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-28T21:48:30.776+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Massacro a Roma</title><content type='html'>Sull’iPlayer c’è attualmente un film italiano con Marcello Mastroianni intitolato Massacro a Roma. Potete accedervi se cliccate su questo link: &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/84b85/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/84b85/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il film sarà disponibile fino al 4 ottobre, quindi se volete vederlo affrettatevi!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-732119127670168939?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/732119127670168939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/massacro-roma.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/732119127670168939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/732119127670168939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/massacro-roma.html' title='Massacro a Roma'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2620826058646151442</id><published>2010-09-25T18:56:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-25T18:59:57.682+02:00</updated><title type='text'>proiezione di un film tedesco il 6 di ottobre</title><content type='html'>For once I won't be talking about Italian but German!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a University of Surrey student, you are very welcome to attend the screening of the following German film on 6 October:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goodbye Lenin! (2003)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Running time 118 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Comedy, Drama, World Cinema&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. There will be a presentation before the screening and a discussion afterwards&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2620826058646151442?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2620826058646151442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/proiezione-di-un-film-tedesco-il-6-di.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2620826058646151442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2620826058646151442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/proiezione-di-un-film-tedesco-il-6-di.html' title='proiezione di un film tedesco il 6 di ottobre'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2748543038608519302</id><published>2010-09-16T13:58:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-16T14:01:50.361+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ricette della nonna</title><content type='html'>Cliccate su questo link per accedere a un brano radiofonico trasmesso proprio oggi da Radio 4 nell'ambito del programma Woman's Hour, in cui si parla delle ricette della nonna dal punto di vista di alcune signore italo-americane:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tnb7s#p00b2f95"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tnb7s#p00b2f95&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2748543038608519302?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2748543038608519302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/ricette-della-nonna.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2748543038608519302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2748543038608519302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/09/ricette-della-nonna.html' title='Ricette della nonna'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-9018206371615052976</id><published>2010-08-15T11:31:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-15T11:37:10.827+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Una massima sui difetti</title><content type='html'>Mi piace molto questa massima di François de La Rochefoucauld. Racchiude in poche semplici parole una grande verità:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Certi difetti, messi bene a frutto, brillano più della virtù stessa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-9018206371615052976?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/9018206371615052976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/08/una-massima-sui-difetti.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9018206371615052976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9018206371615052976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/08/una-massima-sui-difetti.html' title='Una massima sui difetti'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5671529580288148945</id><published>2010-07-19T13:10:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T13:12:04.964+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Chi ha ucciso Caravaggio?</title><content type='html'>Cliccate su questo link per saperlo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/t4jx0/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/t4jx0/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5671529580288148945?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5671529580288148945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/07/chi-ha-ucciso-caravaggio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5671529580288148945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5671529580288148945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/07/chi-ha-ucciso-caravaggio.html' title='Chi ha ucciso Caravaggio?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6391545298708251660</id><published>2010-06-26T15:53:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T15:55:18.989+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Una lezione di guida di Bruno Bozzetto</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="445" height="364"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/aeSzFtqLxQ4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/aeSzFtqLxQ4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6391545298708251660?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6391545298708251660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/una-lezione-di-guida-firmata-bruno.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6391545298708251660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6391545298708251660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/una-lezione-di-guida-firmata-bruno.html' title='Una lezione di guida di Bruno Bozzetto'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-609379481064252684</id><published>2010-06-10T11:35:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-10T11:39:19.560+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pavarotti e Puccini</title><content type='html'>Ancora due trasmissioni da non perdere sull'Opera:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pavarotti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/8l391/"&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/8l391/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puccini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/spgk8/"&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/spgk8/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-609379481064252684?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/609379481064252684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/puccini-e-pavarotti.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/609379481064252684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/609379481064252684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/puccini-e-pavarotti.html' title='Pavarotti e Puccini'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6016491982964568180</id><published>2010-06-09T14:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T14:29:43.241+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Valentino</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per poter guardare il programma su Valentino trasmesso da BBC4 per celebrare i 45 anni di carriera dello stilista:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/spgkb/"&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/spgkb/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6016491982964568180?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6016491982964568180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/valentino.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6016491982964568180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6016491982964568180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/06/valentino.html' title='Valentino'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3101486930359359970</id><published>2010-05-31T21:44:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T17:19:14.210+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Opera Italia</title><content type='html'>Se siete appassionati di Opera non fatevi sfuggire la serie televisiva di BBC4 intitolata Opera Italia, e in particolare la trasmissione in onda il prossimo mercoledi 2 giugno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliccando su questi link troverete invece le trasmissione andate in onda la settimana scorsa, incentrate sugli albori dell'Opera italiana e su Verdi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/sjdmp/"&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/sjdmp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbc.co.uk/i/sm18t/"&gt;http://bbc.co.uk/i/sm18t/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3101486930359359970?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3101486930359359970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/opera-italia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3101486930359359970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3101486930359359970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/opera-italia.html' title='Opera Italia'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-427147926791902328</id><published>2010-05-28T14:03:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T16:34:59.864+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La telefonata - Carlo Verdone</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per vedere un divertente sketch televisivo del 1983 che ha come protagonista un noto attore e regista italiano, Carlo Verdone:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nytRdBX5kZs&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-427147926791902328?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/427147926791902328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-telefonata-carlo-verdone.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/427147926791902328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/427147926791902328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-telefonata-carlo-verdone.html' title='La telefonata - Carlo Verdone'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5438646099905862269</id><published>2010-05-23T12:12:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T12:47:03.073+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Il corpo delle donne</title><content type='html'>Cliccate qui per ascoltare un brano tratto dal programma radiofonico Woman's Hour in cui si parla della rappresentazione delle donne nella TV italiana:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sbtmf#p007zhby"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sbtmf#p007zhb&lt;/a&gt;y&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliccando invece su questo link troverete il documentario (in varie lingue) realizzato da Lorella Zanardo su questo tema:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilcorpodelledonne.net/?page_id=91"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ilcorpodelledonne.net/?page_id=91&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5438646099905862269?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5438646099905862269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/il-corpo-delle-donne.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5438646099905862269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5438646099905862269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/il-corpo-delle-donne.html' title='Il corpo delle donne'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5990318355417765171</id><published>2010-05-13T12:43:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T13:29:17.939+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 Award</title><content type='html'>I'm proud to announce that my blog was nominated for the Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 (teaching category). I've included below a voting button for those of you who would like to to vote for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The voting phase starts on May 12th and ends on May 24th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lexiophiles.com/language-blog-toplist/top-100-language-blogs-2010-vote-for-language-teaching"  title="Vote the Top 100 Language Teaching Blogs 2010" alt="Vote the Top 100 Language Teaching Blogs 2010"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.lexiophiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/vote-this-top-language-blog-2010.gif" title="Vote the Top 100 Language Teaching Blogs 2010" alt="Vote the Top 100 Language Teaching Blogs 2010" width="160" height="60" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5990318355417765171?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5990318355417765171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-100-language-blogs-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5990318355417765171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5990318355417765171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-100-language-blogs-2010.html' title='Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 Award'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2493502617339143535</id><published>2010-05-08T12:58:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T13:02:28.482+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La pasta e le sue variegate forme</title><content type='html'>Se volete saperne un po' di più sulla pasta e le sue molteplici forme (oltre 300), cliccate qui: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5h5s#p007rc2d"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5h5s#p007rc2d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2493502617339143535?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2493502617339143535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-pasta-e-le-sue-variegate-forme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2493502617339143535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2493502617339143535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-pasta-e-le-sue-variegate-forme.html' title='La pasta e le sue variegate forme'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3755206783688444600</id><published>2010-05-01T11:04:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-01T11:18:42.174+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Le ali della sfinge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S9vxiPRhkoI/AAAAAAAAAMo/KgGEELmG47U/s1600/imm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 232px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S9vxiPRhkoI/AAAAAAAAAMo/KgGEELmG47U/s400/imm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466228143262110338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se siete all'Università di Guildford, alle 18.45 di martedì 4 maggio, presso la sala 03MS01 potrete assistere alla proiezione di Montalbano - Le ali della Sfinge, un film tratto dalla notissima serie di romanzi polizieschi di Cammilleri. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il romanzo è stato pubblicato nel 2006, mentre la trasposizione in film è avvenuta nel 2008. Questa volta Montalbano è alla ricerca dell'assassino di una giovane donna il cui unico segno di riconoscimento è il tatuaggio di una farfalla sulla spalla.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3755206783688444600?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3755206783688444600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/le-ali-della-sfinge.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3755206783688444600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3755206783688444600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/05/le-ali-della-sfinge.html' title='Le ali della sfinge'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S9vxiPRhkoI/AAAAAAAAAMo/KgGEELmG47U/s72-c/imm.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3717799445915734908</id><published>2010-04-23T16:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T16:56:44.530+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sul tema delle bistecche</title><content type='html'>My students often ask me how to order a rare, medium, well cooked or “pink inside” steak. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Pink inside” is not something we would normally say in Italian, but if you really would prefer to have a "pink-inside” steak, say: “rosa dentro” or “scottata” (literally, scolded). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, bear in mind that generally there are only three different ways of classifying the state of cooking of a steak: if you want a well cooked one, ask for “una bistecca ben cotta", if you'd like it medium, say “media” o “media cottura”, if you'd like it rare, ask for "una bistecca al sangue”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course if you’d rather have something more nuanced and the waiter is sympathetic to your linguistic plight, you are free to use: poco/quasi/abbastanza/molto (little/almost/quite/much) as required, for instance: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;non troppo (ben) cotta       &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;not too well done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3717799445915734908?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3717799445915734908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/sul-tema-delle-bistecche.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3717799445915734908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3717799445915734908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/sul-tema-delle-bistecche.html' title='Sul tema delle bistecche'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-9046213404415222543</id><published>2010-04-13T15:10:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T15:36:32.956+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Di più o più?</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The vast majority of students fail to use &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt; when this would be the only possible option in Italian. They just say &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;What do you like best?&lt;br /&gt;Cosa ti piace &lt;em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: italic;"&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;           &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;sbagliato!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If in an English sentence &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; is used in isolation , this should be translated as &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;di più&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa ti piace &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like this more&lt;br /&gt;Questo mi piace &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If more is not used in isolation, both &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;più &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;and&lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;di più&lt;/em&gt; are possible:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like fish more than meat:&lt;br /&gt;Mi piace &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;di più&lt;/em&gt; il pesce che la carne&lt;br /&gt;Mi piace &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt; il pesce che la carne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you want to say something different, such as "don't do it anymore", then &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt; has to be used without "di":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non farlo &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;più&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-9046213404415222543?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/9046213404415222543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/di-piu-o-piu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9046213404415222543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9046213404415222543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/di-piu-o-piu.html' title='Di più o più?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-824138650062096281</id><published>2010-04-08T15:06:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-08T15:18:02.643+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Io e te/tu e io?</title><content type='html'>In inglese si dice sempre "You and I", dove&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I &lt;/span&gt;viene posizionato alla fine della frase. In italiano questo non è necessario, vale a dire che &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;io &lt;/span&gt;può andare sia all'inizio che alla fine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu e io&lt;br /&gt;Io e te(tu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notate che &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;te &lt;/span&gt;dal punto di vista grammaticale è un pronome oggetto, non soggetto, dunque in teoria non sarebbe grammaticalmente giusto dire "io e te". Bisognerebbe invece dire "io e tu". Di fatto, nell'uso comune, tutti preferiscono dire &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;io e te&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-824138650062096281?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/824138650062096281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/io-e-tetu-e-io.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/824138650062096281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/824138650062096281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/io-e-tetu-e-io.html' title='Io e te/tu e io?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5091404686265273776</id><published>2010-04-04T12:45:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T12:46:40.780+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Buona Pasqua!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S7huC-ONPmI/AAAAAAAAAMg/g4iTsgeHCKc/s1600/download.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 141px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S7huC-ONPmI/AAAAAAAAAMg/g4iTsgeHCKc/s400/download.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456231945900736098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/VALERI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5091404686265273776?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5091404686265273776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/buona-pasqua.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5091404686265273776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5091404686265273776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/04/buona-pasqua.html' title='Buona Pasqua!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S7huC-ONPmI/AAAAAAAAAMg/g4iTsgeHCKc/s72-c/download.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6579894674951570376</id><published>2010-03-25T13:39:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-25T14:09:01.398+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Itanglese o Aglitaliano?</title><content type='html'>Cliccate sul link sottostante per leggere un articolo del Telegraph sull'invasione dei termini inglesi nella lingua italiana. Mi premeva solo fare una precisazione: verso la fine dell'articolo si parla dell'uso della parola &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;slip&lt;/span&gt;, che secondo l'autore significa "men's underpants". Questo non è totalmente corretto perché la parola slip si usa indifferentemente sia per la biancheria intima femminile che per quella maschile. Ecco l'articolo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7415138/Itanglese-...-or-Anglitaliano-the-Italians-adopt-a-little-English.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7415138/Itanglese-...-or-Anglitaliano-the-Italians-adopt-a-little-English.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6579894674951570376?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6579894674951570376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/itanglese-o-aglitaliano.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6579894674951570376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6579894674951570376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/itanglese-o-aglitaliano.html' title='Itanglese o Aglitaliano?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2499849789173327433</id><published>2010-03-18T18:49:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T16:43:50.185+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Berlusconi</title><content type='html'>Se volete saperne di più su Berlusconi, guardate questo ottimo programma della BBC (ricordatevi che come al solito è disponibile solo per un periodo limitato, quindi affrettatevi a vederlo!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r8g99/The_Berlusconi_Show/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r8g99/The_Berlusconi_Show/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È disponibile anche su YouTube:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFu1_1MYP8"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFu1_1MYP8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2499849789173327433?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2499849789173327433/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/berlusconi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2499849789173327433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2499849789173327433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/berlusconi.html' title='Berlusconi'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5755430488578745299</id><published>2010-03-15T14:06:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-15T14:18:15.508+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Caravaggio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S54zSi6PtmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/9PVy_jUO6ao/s1600-h/_47464045_img_4087.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S54zSi6PtmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/9PVy_jUO6ao/s400/_47464045_img_4087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448848992866645602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A quattrocento anni dalla morte di Caravaggio, Radio 4 celebra la vita e l'arte del pittore con un programma che potete risentire cliccando su questo link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r8jcx/The_Secrets_of_the_Art_and_the_Artist_Caravaggio_Episode_1/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r8jcx/The_Secrets_of_the_Art_and_the_Artist_Caravaggio_Episode_1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/VALERI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5755430488578745299?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5755430488578745299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/caravaggio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5755430488578745299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5755430488578745299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/caravaggio.html' title='Caravaggio'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S54zSi6PtmI/AAAAAAAAAMY/9PVy_jUO6ao/s72-c/_47464045_img_4087.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4420227934630822663</id><published>2010-03-06T12:29:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T12:40:06.995+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pompei</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S5I_EWxPokI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/-WLek161_zE/s1600-h/foro_night_ph_Luciano_Romano_672-458_resize.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S5I_EWxPokI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/-WLek161_zE/s400/foro_night_ph_Luciano_Romano_672-458_resize.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445484243508503106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualche giorno fa il Corriere del Mezzogiorno ha pubblicato delle foto impressionanti di pompeiani (ed anche di un cane) avvolti nei loro calchi di gesso e resina. Le potete vedere su questo link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/fotogallery/2010/03/calchi/calchi_fotogallery-1602596791256.shtml#6"&gt;http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/fotogallery/2010/03/calchi/calchi_fotogallery-1602596791256.shtml#6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A proposito, vi ricordo che Pompei si scrive con una sola "i" in italiano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/VALERI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/VALERI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/VALERI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4420227934630822663?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4420227934630822663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/pompei.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4420227934630822663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4420227934630822663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/03/pompei.html' title='Pompei'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/S5I_EWxPokI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/-WLek161_zE/s72-c/foro_night_ph_Luciano_Romano_672-458_resize.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3220798511697934057</id><published>2010-02-26T17:18:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T15:33:55.243+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Va bene?!</title><content type='html'>Cliccate su questo link per vedere un divertente film animato di Bruno Bozzetto che si propone di combattere gli stereotipi tra Germania e Italia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="580" height="360"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/RSIzWe33kpw&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/RSIzWe33kpw&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3220798511697934057?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3220798511697934057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/02/va-bene.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3220798511697934057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3220798511697934057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/02/va-bene.html' title='Va bene?!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5672417185155155495</id><published>2010-02-03T17:38:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T17:50:10.655+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ulisse</title><content type='html'>Se volete vedere dei bei documentari, vi consiglio di guardare la trasmissione Ulisse, trasmessa dalla Rai. Potete guardare le trasmissioni anche sul sito web:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.direttaraiuno.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-47d0711a-f935-41f7-a648-ab587453d945.html?p=0"&gt;http://www.direttaraiuno.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-47d0711a-f935-41f7-a648-ab587453d945.html?p=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco delle informazioni sul programma (riprese dal sito):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Ulisse il piacere della scoperta"&lt;/strong&gt; è un programma televisivo di Piero e Alberto Angela. Un affascinante viaggio a ritroso nel tempo, tra antiche civiltà e capolavori della scienza e dell'ingegneria di popoli lontani. In modo analogo, ogni puntata non è più a tema unico come è stato nelle passate edizioni, ma offre un ventaglio di temi. Ogni argomento è collegato a quello successivo attraverso un elegante filo conduttore, offrendo agli spettatori, nell’arco di 90’, un viaggio originale nella Scienza, nella Storia, nell’Archeologia, nell’Esplorazione e nella Natura.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5672417185155155495?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5672417185155155495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/02/ulisse.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5672417185155155495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5672417185155155495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/02/ulisse.html' title='Ulisse'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3314989182023549571</id><published>2010-01-03T17:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T17:27:56.229+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quando si usa "abbastanza"?</title><content type='html'>Abbastanza is an adverb (an adverb is a word that doesn’t change and that qualifies a verb or an adjective). It means “enough”, “sufficient”:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non ho dormito &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;abbastanza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn’t sleep &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;enough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also means quite/rather/fairly:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il tempo oggi è&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; abbastanza&lt;/span&gt; nuvoloso&lt;br /&gt;The weather today is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;fairly&lt;/span&gt; cloudy&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3314989182023549571?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3314989182023549571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/01/quando-si-usa-abbastanza.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3314989182023549571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3314989182023549571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/01/quando-si-usa-abbastanza.html' title='Quando si usa &quot;abbastanza&quot;?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-5880845622271891733</id><published>2010-01-03T16:38:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T17:26:21.158+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quando si usa "basta"?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The word “basta” means “it is enough/sufficient” and is a form of the verb&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; bastare&lt;/span&gt; (the third person singular) used:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) in impersonal sentences:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per dimagrire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;non basta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; mangiare di meno, bisogna anche fare più attività fisica&lt;br /&gt;In order to lose weight&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; it isn’t enough&lt;/span&gt; to eat less, one also need to do more exercise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) In imperative sentences (ie, to ask people to be quiet or put an end to something):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Basta&lt;/span&gt;, state zitti!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That’s enough&lt;/span&gt;, be quiet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Basta&lt;/span&gt; parlare dell’incidente, cambiamo discorso&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Enough&lt;/span&gt; talking about the accident, let’s change the subject&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) It can also mean “on condition that”:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mangia quello che vuoi, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;basta&lt;/span&gt; che non esageri&lt;br /&gt;Eat what you like, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;on condition that&lt;/span&gt; you don’t eat too much&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Finally, it is used to say what somebody needs or has to do in order for something else to happen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mi basta&lt;/span&gt; andare al cinema per divertirmi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It is enough for me&lt;/span&gt; to go to the cinema to enjoy myself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-5880845622271891733?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/5880845622271891733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/01/quando-si-usa-basta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5880845622271891733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/5880845622271891733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2010/01/quando-si-usa-basta.html' title='Quando si usa &quot;basta&quot;?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7482892536034506242</id><published>2009-12-23T21:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-23T21:34:02.408+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Buon Natale!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img class="centre" alt="Children round the Christmas Tree card" src="http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/imgs/content/round_the_christmas_tree.jpg" width="300" height="456" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7482892536034506242?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7482892536034506242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/buon-natale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7482892536034506242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7482892536034506242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/buon-natale.html' title='Buon Natale!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2117039051072195658</id><published>2009-12-12T18:56:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-12T19:01:04.818+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Riccio Ciccio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SyPaWsU4YmI/AAAAAAAAAMI/_r3HRchjRks/s1600-h/riccio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 66px; height: 49px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SyPaWsU4YmI/AAAAAAAAAMI/_r3HRchjRks/s400/riccio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414411260420186722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliccate su questo link se volete leggere un articolo su un riccio albino molto carino (ma un po' troppo cicciottello!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.corriere.it/animali/09_dicembre_12/riccio_albino_dd662a8a-e6ef-11de-bab0-00144f02aabc.shtml"&gt;http://www.corriere.it/animali/09_dicembre_12/riccio_albino_dd662a8a-e6ef-11de-bab0-00144f02aabc.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2117039051072195658?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2117039051072195658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/riccio-ciccio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2117039051072195658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2117039051072195658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/riccio-ciccio.html' title='Riccio Ciccio'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SyPaWsU4YmI/AAAAAAAAAMI/_r3HRchjRks/s72-c/riccio.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-6286300169137997710</id><published>2009-12-11T20:23:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T13:03:38.766+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Una poesia di Jenny Joseph, tradotta da John Jenkins</title><content type='html'>Quando sono vecchia, porterò il viola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="" id="comments-block"&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Con un cappello che non va, e che non mi sta bene.&lt;br /&gt;E spenderò la mia pensione in brandy e in guanti estivi&lt;br /&gt;e in sandali di raso, e dirò che non abbiamo i soldi per il burro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando sono stanca, mi siederò sul marciapiede&lt;br /&gt;e inghiottirò i pasticcini che si provano nei negozi e azionerò i campanelli d'allarme&lt;br /&gt;e farò tintinnare le inferriate con il mio bastone&lt;br /&gt;e compenserò per la sobrietà della mia gioventù.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uscirò sotto la pioggia mentre porto le pantofole&lt;br /&gt;e coglierò i fiori nei giardini degli altri&lt;br /&gt;e imparerò a sputare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si possono portare camice orribili e diventare più grassi&lt;br /&gt;si possono mangiare un chilo di salsicce in un colpo&lt;br /&gt;o solo il pane e i sottaceti per una settimana&lt;br /&gt;e si possono accumulare le penne e le matite&lt;br /&gt;e i sottobicchieri e gli altri oggetti nelle scatole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma ora dobbiamo avere i vestiti che tengono asciutti&lt;br /&gt;e dobbiamo pagare l'affitto e non imprecare per strada&lt;br /&gt;e dobbiamo dare il buon esempio ai bambini.&lt;br /&gt;Dobbiamo invitare gli amici a cena e leggere i giornali.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma forse ora dovrei esercitarmi un po'?&lt;br /&gt;Affinché la gente che mi conosce non sia troppo scioccata e sorpresa&lt;br /&gt;quando improvvisamente sono vecchia e comincio a portare il viola.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-6286300169137997710?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/6286300169137997710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/traduzione-della-poesia-warning-di_11.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6286300169137997710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/6286300169137997710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/traduzione-della-poesia-warning-di_11.html' title='Una poesia di Jenny Joseph, tradotta da John Jenkins'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-525525850497595321</id><published>2009-12-11T14:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T15:01:13.107+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Traduzione della poesia "Warning" di Jenny Joseph</title><content type='html'>Ecco una famosa poesia di Jenny Joseph, chi vuole tradurla in Italiano?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt;When I am an old woman I shall wear purple&lt;br /&gt;With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.&lt;br /&gt;And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves&lt;br /&gt;And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.&lt;br /&gt;I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired&lt;br /&gt;And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells&lt;br /&gt;And run my stick along the public railings&lt;br /&gt;And make up for the sobriety of my youth.&lt;br /&gt;I shall go out in my slippers in the rain&lt;br /&gt;And pick flowers in other people's gardens&lt;br /&gt;And learn to spit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat&lt;br /&gt;And eat three pounds of sausages at a go&lt;br /&gt;Or only bread and pickle for a week&lt;br /&gt;And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now we must have clothes that keep us dry&lt;br /&gt;And pay our rent and not swear in the street&lt;br /&gt;And set a good example for the children.&lt;br /&gt;We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But maybe I ought to practice a little now?&lt;br /&gt;So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised&lt;br /&gt;When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-525525850497595321?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/525525850497595321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/traduzione-della-poesia-warning-di.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/525525850497595321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/525525850497595321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/traduzione-della-poesia-warning-di.html' title='Traduzione della poesia &quot;Warning&quot; di Jenny Joseph'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4639625197771543104</id><published>2009-12-08T20:52:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T20:57:16.082+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pompei su Google</title><content type='html'>Se volete saperne di più su come visitare Pompei "virtualmente", cliccate qui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8394384.stm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8394384.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A proposito, Pompei in Italiano si scrive con una sola "i"!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4639625197771543104?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4639625197771543104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/pompei-su-google.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4639625197771543104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4639625197771543104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/12/pompei-su-google.html' title='Pompei su Google'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7221412322250783480</id><published>2009-11-14T13:22:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T18:10:25.473+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Romanzo Criminale</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sv6lYmPCekI/AAAAAAAAAL4/WbHeTnp8UUg/s1600-h/295727.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sv6lYmPCekI/AAAAAAAAAL4/WbHeTnp8UUg/s400/295727.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403938444890241602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romanzo Criminale si ispira alle vicende della Banda della Magliana, una banda criminale che ha imperversato a Roma negli anni '70. Potete guardarlo sull'IPlayer (ma solo fino al 15 novembre!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nq8ns/b00p2g71/Romanzo_Criminale/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nq8ns/b00p2g71/Romanzo_Criminale/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7221412322250783480?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7221412322250783480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/11/romanzo-criminale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7221412322250783480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7221412322250783480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/11/romanzo-criminale.html' title='Romanzo Criminale'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sv6lYmPCekI/AAAAAAAAAL4/WbHeTnp8UUg/s72-c/295727.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7287987418254187492</id><published>2009-10-30T13:23:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T13:27:15.432+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Uno scioglilingua - 2</title><content type='html'>Provate a leggere queste due frasi sempre più rapidamente!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sopra la panca la capra campa,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; sotto la panca la capra crepa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7287987418254187492?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7287987418254187492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/uno-scioglilingua-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7287987418254187492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7287987418254187492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/uno-scioglilingua-2.html' title='Uno scioglilingua - 2'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3740327844218432858</id><published>2009-10-23T12:38:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T12:43:45.832+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fantozzi</title><content type='html'>Ecco un divertente spezzone tratto dalla saga cinematografica di Fantozzi, una commedia basata sulle vicissitudini di uno sfortunato impiegato, interpretato dall'autore Paolo Villaggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="445" height="364"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/62dh8wz5oj0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/62dh8wz5oj0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3740327844218432858?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3740327844218432858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/fantozzi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3740327844218432858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3740327844218432858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/fantozzi.html' title='Fantozzi'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7205999688177748584</id><published>2009-10-07T14:58:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T15:28:07.082+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Indietro tutta!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Indietro Tutta&lt;/span&gt; è il titolo di un programma televisivo comico della fine degli anni '80 che ha avuto grande successo, dove si prendono in giro i tradizionali quiz e giochi a premi e la televisione in genere. L'estratto che vedrete è tratto da una puntata del 1988:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XFYZYugKaO4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XFYZYugKaO4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7205999688177748584?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7205999688177748584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/indietro-tutta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7205999688177748584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7205999688177748584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/indietro-tutta.html' title='Indietro tutta!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7842565298341331779</id><published>2009-10-06T13:15:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T13:31:48.598+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la basilica di Pompei'/><title type='text'>Gran Tour - terza puntata</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sssqah5uUtI/AAAAAAAAALw/xc0WpGFOkbU/s1600-h/9537.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sssqah5uUtI/AAAAAAAAALw/xc0WpGFOkbU/s400/9537.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389448014344377042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco la terza puntata di Gran Tour. Questa volta si parla di Napoli, Ercolano e Pompei (notice that Pompei has only one "i" in Italian!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od#2972365"&gt;http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od#2972365&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7842565298341331779?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7842565298341331779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/gran-tour-terza-puntata.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7842565298341331779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7842565298341331779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/gran-tour-terza-puntata.html' title='Gran Tour - terza puntata'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/Sssqah5uUtI/AAAAAAAAALw/xc0WpGFOkbU/s72-c/9537.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-9210184356697551247</id><published>2009-10-05T18:15:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T18:41:32.212+02:00</updated><title type='text'>La D'Addario ad Annozero</title><content type='html'>Un'interessante intervista a Patrizia D'Addario, l'escort che ha parlato pubblicamente dei suoi rapporti con Berlusconi. Il brano è tratto dalla trasmissione Annozero del 1 ottobre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OPhlGiBUMzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OPhlGiBUMzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-9210184356697551247?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/9210184356697551247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/la-daddario-ad-annozero.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9210184356697551247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/9210184356697551247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/la-daddario-ad-annozero.html' title='La D&apos;Addario ad Annozero'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7521499368305758175</id><published>2009-10-04T18:15:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-04T18:29:54.903+02:00</updated><title type='text'>All the time</title><content type='html'>"All the time" is often translated by English speakers as "tutto il tempo". Although this expression does exist in Italian, it isn't as common as it is in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, the sentence: "ascolta la radio tutto il tempo" would be best rephrased as "ascolta continuamente la radio": "continuamente" sounds more natural to an Italian native.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, there are particular verbs that you'll repeatedly find together with "tutto il tempo" and have almost become fixed expressions. Two of these are "passare" and "stare":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;passa tutto il tempo&lt;/span&gt; ad ascoltare la radio (he spends all his time listening to the radio)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sta tutto il tempo&lt;/span&gt; a lamentarsi (she moans all the time)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7521499368305758175?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7521499368305758175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7521499368305758175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7521499368305758175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-time.html' title='All the time'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-974845358539743268</id><published>2009-09-29T16:38:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T16:48:49.948+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='la basilica di San Pietro'/><title type='text'>Gran Tour - seconda puntata</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SsIc7oxGfgI/AAAAAAAAALg/QXzihUHxAw8/s1600-h/saint_peter15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SsIc7oxGfgI/AAAAAAAAALg/QXzihUHxAw8/s400/saint_peter15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386899915169758722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco la seconda puntata di Gran Tour, incentrata sull'architettura di Firenze e Roma:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od"&gt;http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-974845358539743268?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/974845358539743268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/gran-tour-seconda-puntata.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/974845358539743268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/974845358539743268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/gran-tour-seconda-puntata.html' title='Gran Tour - seconda puntata'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SsIc7oxGfgI/AAAAAAAAALg/QXzihUHxAw8/s72-c/saint_peter15.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-7109050154007837670</id><published>2009-09-28T17:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T11:52:53.474+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Prego!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Prego&lt;/span&gt; can be used in many ways, here are the main ones:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CVALERI%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt; 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	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;as a response to "permesso"? Where permesso means: can I come in? / can I get past? and prego means: please do/please come in:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;a. Posso entrare?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;b. Prego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;as a classical reply to "grazie"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;as a way to ask "Can I help you?" (in a shop for instance):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;as a way to say "there you are" or "here you are" (when giving something to somebody):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-7109050154007837670?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/7109050154007837670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/prego.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7109050154007837670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/7109050154007837670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/prego.html' title='Prego!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2843029367608719468</id><published>2009-09-27T13:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T13:39:53.203+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Il formaggio a Bra</title><content type='html'>Se vi piace il formaggio, ascoltate questo programma di radio 4 che parla di Bra, una città del Nord Italia che organizza molto eventi che celebrano il formaggio e lo slow food:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mtqyt/Food_Programme_Slow_Cheese/"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mtqyt/Food_Programme_Slow_Cheese/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2843029367608719468?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2843029367608719468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/il-formaggio-bra.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2843029367608719468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2843029367608719468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/il-formaggio-bra.html' title='Il formaggio a Bra'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-4721304724203985845</id><published>2009-09-21T16:11:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T11:58:18.341+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gran Tour in Italia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SreKXhu6vkI/AAAAAAAAALY/4qplMyA-LLE/s1600-h/san-georgio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SreKXhu6vkI/AAAAAAAAALY/4qplMyA-LLE/s400/san-georgio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383924016341499458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cliccate su questo link per vedere un ottimo programma di Channel 4 in cui si parla dell'architettura italiana e di alcune famose città d'Italia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od#2971035"&gt;http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-grand-tour/4od#2971035&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-4721304724203985845?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/4721304724203985845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/gran-tour-in-italia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4721304724203985845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/4721304724203985845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/gran-tour-in-italia.html' title='Gran Tour in Italia'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SreKXhu6vkI/AAAAAAAAALY/4qplMyA-LLE/s72-c/san-georgio.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-2809617447991760980</id><published>2009-09-19T14:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T11:43:42.393+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Careful with Quid Pro Quo!</title><content type='html'>In English the latin expression "quid pro quo" equates to a rather mundane and more or less equal exchange (getting something in exchange for something else)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Italian "quid pro quo" is mainly used in the sense of mistake or misunderstanding (understanding one thing for another)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-2809617447991760980?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/2809617447991760980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/careful-with-qui-pro-quo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2809617447991760980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/2809617447991760980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/careful-with-qui-pro-quo.html' title='Careful with Quid Pro Quo!'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8535077882708761105.post-3850757246222896961</id><published>2009-09-17T15:18:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T15:30:58.533+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Qual è la differenza tra giorno e giornata?</title><content type='html'>The word "day" is always translated as "giorno" by students of Italian. But you should be aware that there is another word, "giornata", which it's often preferable. Here are the main differences between the two words, based on the definition given by the Zanichelli monolingual dictionary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giorno: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Spazio di tempo di 24 ore che intercorre tra una mezzanotte e quella successiva. Esempio: 365 giorni&lt;br /&gt;- Periodo durante il quale il sole resta sopra l’orizzonte. Esempio: sul far del giorno&lt;br /&gt;- Periodo indeterminato di tempo: oggi giorno, di questi giorni&lt;br /&gt;- Festa, solennità, ricorrenza: il giorno della mamma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giornata:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Giornata: guadagno, paga di un giorno di lavoro. Esempio: perdere la giornata&lt;br /&gt;- Giorno caratterizzato da fatti o avvenimenti di grande rilievo o la diffusione di un’iniziativa di interesse nazionale. Esempio: la giornata nazionale del Naso Rosso&lt;br /&gt;- Ciascuno dei giorni e le relative serie di accoppiamenti fissati per lo svolgimento degli incontri dei campionati di calcio e simili: Esempio: prima giornata del girone di andata&lt;br /&gt;- Cammino che si può percorrere nello spazio di un giorno. Esempio: trovarsi a una giornata da Roma&lt;br /&gt;- Periodo di tempo compreso tra l’alba e il tramonto considerato rispetto alle condizioni in cui trascorre, al modo di trascorrerlo e agli avvenimenti che in esso si verificano. Esempio: giornata umida/triste/festiva&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espressioni idiomatiche&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uova di giornata (raccolte oggi)&lt;br /&gt;Vivere alla giornata (giorno per giorno)&lt;br /&gt;Lavorare a giornata (rapporto di lavoro non stabile e continuativo ma occasionale e momentaneo)&lt;br /&gt;In giornata (entro oggi)&lt;br /&gt;Va a giornate (essere incostante nell’umore, nel rendimento ecc.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8535077882708761105-3850757246222896961?l=italianoecc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/feeds/3850757246222896961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/qual-e-la-differenza-tra-giorno-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3850757246222896961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8535077882708761105/posts/default/3850757246222896961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://italianoecc.blogspot.com/2009/09/qual-e-la-differenza-tra-giorno-e.html' title='Qual è la differenza tra giorno e giornata?'/><author><name>Valeria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05711101093685939765</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pCz6j1IDFso/SM-FWVfQ-lI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Rv2oVJ0s-eE/S220/picture.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
