Wednesday, April 7, 2010

About Italian: Italian By The Numbers; Elections in Italy

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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. Learning to order coffee correctly, our guest author Bonnie finally fits in, but not before conquering double consonants.

In the About.com Italian Language forums there's a discussion about the recent elections in Italy, and a community member wonders if there are figures in Italian fables similar to those such as Robin Goodfellow, Jacques Bonhomme, or Puck. There's a lesson on the present tense (presente), and a conjugation table for the verb condiscendere. Plus, listen to an audio phrasebook with vocabulary related to the Internet (l'Internet).

Finding My Bar
Learning to order coffee correctly, our guest author Bonnie finally fits in, but not before conquering double consonants.

Italian By The Numbers
If you travel to Italy and don't speak Italian, it seems as if everyone is speaking...Italian! But in fact, there are several different languages spoken in Italy, as well as a number of dialects. Where is Italian spoken? How many Italian speakers are there?

Italian Word of the Day
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