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”…
Delle buone abitudini
Whenever they start a new Italian course, my students ask me the same questions: how do I do well in…
LA PESTE 2020 – Gioco di Halloween
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.
Antonfrancesco Grazzini and the Italian Renaissance Novella
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.
Fiori di zucca ripieni: Grammar Quick Lesson
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.
Ferragosto 2020 e i Tormentoni Estivi
Listening to Italian music is one of the most consistent pieces of advice I give to students. But when preparing my customary list of recommended artists and songs, I somehow always neglect a musical phenomenon particular to Italian summers: the tormentone estivo.
Le rughe del sorriso (di Carmine Abate) — Recensione e attività di classe
A Spillace, in Calabria, scompare una donna. Una donna somala. Una donna somala residente al centro di accoglienza per profughi e migranti. A cercarla sarà Antonio Cerasa, uno dei professori di italiano dipendenti del centro il cui interesse in Sahra va oltre l’impegno professionale. La sua ricerca lo trascina in un’avventura alla quale sono testimoni i lettori e che svelerà i segreti di un passato africano trascorso in preparazione ad una vita migliore altrove. Quell’altrove sarà l’Italia. Ma la Somalia della partenza non verrà mai dimenticata da chi la lascia. E neanche da chi la scoprirà nei racconti dei suoi ex-cittadini.
Manifesto
No, that’s not an album title (well, it is, actually, but that’s not what is being referenced here). Historians have…
Cybernonna e i nuovi dei
Never more than now has technology’s role and function in our every-day lives become more clear. Working from home (in…
Language Learning in the Time of Coronavirus
It seems like a contradiction: learning a language in the era of social distancing. Any language instructor will tell you…