The Department of Italian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick Campus), invites applications for a three-year renewable position as Language Coordinator at the rank of Instructor, beginning on July 1, 2014.   The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in hand in Italian Studies and a specialization and/or long experi...

L'arte culinaria si conferma ambasciatrice d'eccezione della lingua italiana negli Stati Uniti, anche nei confronti dei giovanissimi.   E' quanto emerge con forza dall'appuntamento di ieri organizzato presso il nuovo Academia Barilla Restaurant di New York atto primo di una nuova serie di lezioni di italiano e cucina per gli studenti delle s...

Cono Cinquemani è un cantautore italiano e autore dello spettacolo "Dizionario Siculish, cento modi di dire emigrato siciliano", attraverso il quale vuole riportare alla luce il siculish, la lingua trasformativa parlata dalle comunità siciliane in America.   Cinquemani racconta la grande emigrazione siciliana e italiana di fine '800 attraver...

Penobscot School, a nonprofit center for language learning and international exchange in MidCoast Maine, seeks a native Italian speaker to instruct four levels of Italian courses, conduct tutorials and immersion programs and to assist with cultural events throughout the academic year.   This position is available September, 2015 and requires...

George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies' Clorinda Donato applauded the CSULB Academic Senate's approval of a new Master of Arts degree for Italian Studies beginning next fall at CSULB. "We're all very excited in Italian Studies about the new degree," said Donato, who joined Romance/German/Russian Languages and Literatures in 1988. "The goal o...

  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   We start today to explore the linguistic heritage of our beautiful language with the word "acqua" (water), to show you a few ways how to use it in the common language. Let's start with the saying "l'acqua cheta rovina i ponti" (literall...

Quali sono le sfide nel mercato americano per le creazioni e i prodotti italiani? Quali valori culturali veicolano le ditte italiane nel territorio metropolitano tra New York City e il New Jersey? A cosa si deve il persistente successo di firme italiane? Come una formazione culturale italiana può essere spendibile nel mondo del business negli State...

  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Today we continue to explore our Italian language getting back to the "false friends" which, as we already said, help us not only to avoid errors but also to become more confident and to enrich our vocabulary. "Case", for example, is in...

Dear Friends, Family, Students, Supporters: Please click here to visit the page of our new fundraising rally "Keep Italingua Alive!" As you already know, Italingua is not just a place where people learn to speak Italian -- they come to us to feel Italian, to be supported by a warm extended Italian family; and while learning how to conjugate verbs...

  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Properly speaking a foreign language means diving into another culture, to understand how native speakers express themselves, studying the grammar and working on the curiosity and the preparation required to learn idioms and its common la...