Saturday, April 3, 2010

About Italian: Diario di Una Studentessa Matta; Mentre; Benvenuto

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

Welcome to this weekend's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter. Sardo (also known as Sardu, Saldu, or Sa Limba) is is the main language spoken on the island of Sardinia, Italy.

In the About.com Italian Language forums a community member wants to know how to pronounce the word figlio, and a discussion about the use of the term mentre. Plus the twenty-third canto of Purgatorio in Dante's The Divine Comedy in both Italian and English, in which the poet meets the gluttonous, who are condemned to hunger and thirst. Lastly, there are Italian abbreviations and acronyms beginning with the letter D.

Diario di Una Studentessa Matta
That's the name of a blog written by Melissa Muldoon, who posted this message in the About.com Italian Language Forums: "Ciao a tutti, sono pazzamente appassionata della lingua..."

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto XXIII
"Mentre che li occhi per la fronda verde / ficcava ïo sì come far suole /chi dietro a li uccellin sua vita perde..."

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