Wednesday, March 31, 2010

About Italian: Pesce d'Aprile! L'Arredamento da Casa; Carnaccia

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From Michael San Filippo, your Guide to Italian
Caro Lettore,

Welcome to this week's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter! Read the next installment in one woman's adventure in fluency. Struggling to understand Italian as spoken in Rome, our guest writer makes mistakes and learns a new language.

In the About.com Italian Language forums there's a discussion about the use of the infinitive in Italian, and a community member asks for a translation of the term carnaccia. There's a lesson on the infinitive (l'infinito), and a conjugation table for the verb concludere. Plus, listen to an audio phrasebook with vocabulary related to home furnishings (l'arredamento da casa).

(Not) Learning Italian
Struggling to understand Italian as spoken in Rome, Bonnie makes mistakes and learns a new language. Little did she know that the Roman dialect chews up familiar words and spits out new ones. The second installment in Learning To Speak Italian in Italy.

Pesce d'Aprile! April Fool's Day In Italy
In Italy, as in much of the world, April 1st is traditionally a day of practical jokes, pranks, and silliness. The origin of this custom is ancient and ambiguous, but one thing is certain: much buffoonery and hilarity will take place.

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