The five mistakes you are probably making as a student of foreign languages
“Mistakes” is not a word in a teacher’s vocabulary. Teachers see opportunities for learning and improvement. They see “teachable moments”…
“Mistakes” is not a word in a teacher’s vocabulary. Teachers see opportunities for learning and improvement. They see “teachable moments”…
Whenever they start a new Italian course, my students ask me the same questions: how do I do well in…
This is a classic role play game – meets card game – meets extended social allegory – meets morality play game for 4-8 players. Each player is assigned a character (il giustiziere mascherato, il medico alato, la creatura della palude, l’assassino cieco) and are given $200.00 to purchase objects that will help them reach their individual goals.
Ferrante delivers here what audiences have come to expect of her — perhaps a little too much — in a tale that is at once familiar to readers of the Amica geniale series and an elaboration of topoi left only hinted at there.
As part of a new online course in development aimed at high-end intermediate students of Italian (B2 level), 3E will be adapting Grazzini’s stories for learners of Italian as a foreign language and using them to teach (or refresh) the more complicated aspects of Italian grammar.
Foreign language instructors often use recipes in their lesson plans, and with good reason: many difficult structures can be introduced or consolidated via this user-friendly, visually-supported medium.
Il libro parla di quattro protagonisti, Carla, Diana, Manuel, e Pietro, che scoprono di aver partecipato allo stesso funerale un decennio prima di conoscersi. L’ironia si trova nel fatto che il funerale era quello di Ashima, la madre di Diana, che è anche l’ex professore di Pietro e l’ex amante di Manuel, con Carla che era il pianificatore del suo funerale.
When asked where I am today in my studies, there is one reaction that I get from everyone. “Master’s in Italian Studies! How exciting! But, what for?”
Nato a Sirmione, sul Lago di Garda, Catullo è un predecessore di Virgilio ed Ovidio, dei quali ho scritto molto quest’estate e che ne sono stati molto influenzati. Ancora oggi, molte opere artistiche sono ispirate da lui, non solo nella letteratura, ma anche in tutte le forme dell’arte.
Cosa pensano le ragazze (Einaudi, 2016): collezione di 38 riflessioni, divise in cinque parti, tutte al femminile, e frutto di interviste con mille ragazze italiane nell’arco di due anni (Nota al testo).