Wednesday, May 12, 2010

About Italian: La Certificazione PLIDA; Il Barbone; I Cavalli

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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. Avoiding, then confronting, and finally mastering numbers, Bonnie orders theater tickets over the phone. Will she have seats close to the stage, or will she be need binoculars to see the performance?

In the About.com Italian Language forums there's a debate on the use of salve versus ciao, and a community member asks for clarification regarding the use of tonic verbs. There's a lesson on how to divide Italian words into syllables, and a conjugation table for the verb configgere. Plus, listen to an audio phrasebook with vocabulary related to horses (i cavalli).

Fearing Numbers
Avoiding, then confronting, and finally mastering numbers, Bonnie orders theater tickets over the phone. Will she have seats close to the stage, or will she be need binoculars to see the performance?

La Certificazione PLIDA
One Italian acronym that test-takers should familiarize themselves with is PLIDA (Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri).

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