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The Italian American Community gives us the opportunity to meet versatile men and women: very successful persons on their job, who also serve some Italian institutions with passion and dedication, proudly giving their time and their experience for the best interest of Italy in the USA. Our guest for the first interview of 2014 is definitively one o...

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Erin Dolan, a senior from North Kingstown and student at Bay View Academy, earned the Rhode Island Teachers of Italian 2014 Advisory Board Monetary Award for Italian IV, with a cash prize of $300.   This is award is given every year to only one Italian IV or V student and is chosen based on student submitted essays on the topic, "How will th...

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Come dicono gli inglesi (quando sono in buona), "gli italiani quando parlano dicono poesie". Esagerano, ma non troppo: il linguaggio comune che si usa tutti i giorni è pieno di modi di dire, frasi fatte che sono, in realtà, citazioni e versicoli rubati alla Divina Commedia.   Poesia pura. Mentre si parla, non sempre ci si accorge di usare pa...

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by Annalisa Merelli   Sorry, New York Times Sunday Book Review, Elena Ferrante is not "one of the great novelists of our time." Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—these are all great novelists. Ferrante is not, which is unfortunate, because she has a good story to tell. About a month ago, while I was back in my hometo...

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RICORDA: SE TI ISCRIVI ALL'ESAME AP DI ITALIANO PUOI PARTECIPARE ALL'ESTRAZIONE DI BORSE DI STUDIO PER CORSI DI ITALIANO IN ITALIA – SEGUI LE NEWS SU: www.usspeaksitalian.org ewww.ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/Ambasciata_Washington SE HAI UN DIPLOMA DI HIGH SCHOOL AMERICANO EVUOI ISCRIVERTI AD UNA UNIVERSITA' ITALIANATI SARANNO SUFFICIENTI L'ESAME AP...

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Job descriptionPart time Hourly Position;Monday through Thursday (late afternoon to early evening), Some Saturday mornings;The Coordinator will report to the Director of Program Development.   Job applicant requirementsNear native Italian Language ProficencyExperience in Teaching a Second LanguageUniversity DegreeManagment Experience and Pas...

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Acting in accordance with Elsa Geiger Ariè's bequest commemorating her father, the Giorgio Cini Foundation has announced the "Premio letterario Benno Geiger per la traduzione poetica" (The Benno Geiger Poetry Translation Prize), to be awarded for an Italian translation of a work of poetry from an ancient, medieval or modern Western language publish...

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In un articolo apparso sul Corriere della Sera nel gennaio 2010, il noto filologo e critico letterario Cesare Segre denunciava la crisi della nostra lingua e l'uso improprio che se ne fa nella vita di tutti i giorni, specialmente nei differenti contesti in cui viene applicata. Segre insisteva in particolare sulla mancanza di selettività dei cosidde...

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Full-time Lecturer of Italian beginning September 1, 2015. The Department of Romance Languages is seeking a full-time lecturer in Italian to teach all levels of language (three courses per semester). Review of applications begins November 17, 2014, and continues until the position is filled. Native or near-native fluency in Italian, M.A., and previ...

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Whether you want to speak Italian for travel or personal enrichment, our classes are a great way to learn la bella lingua. And our classes cover the full range of proficiency levels from beginning to advanced. Beginning Italian classes introduce you to basic vocabulary and expressions used in everyday situations. Beginning lessons cover how t...

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