“Fra la rivoluzione e la routine”
— Reflections on the Climate Crisis by David Gelles You all remember me ranting and raving about my ITAL 250…
Lenticchie a Capodanno
And other winter recipes You might recall a post we made last year about one of Italy’s most time-honoured traditions:…
5 Things Learning a Foreign Language Can Teach You– that have nothing to do with foreign languages!
I always tell my students the same two things about language learning: firstly, that the work they do outside the…
Recensione: Il mondo deve sapere, Tutta la vita davanti
di Christina Sforza A volte leggi un libro e desideri di averlo scritto tu. O meglio. È come se lo…
Remembering New Words and Grammatical Structures: 5 Tips for Adult Learners of a Foreign Language
Learning a language becomes more difficult the older you get. Up until the age of twelve or thirteen, the human…
To all the girls I’ve loved before
I remember my ninth grade student teacher. I was a student at Villa Maria at the time, a then all-girls’…
Lost in Translation
Let me tell you what I love most about teaching. It isn’t the opportunity it gives me to share my…
Lenticchie a Capodanno
Some five or six years ago, a very close friend of mine from the Veneto region tuned me into no…
Smorgasbord at the Museum
A discussion of the intersection of the Swedish smorgasbord and contextual exhibition in Scandinavian museum exhibitions.
Education: Regionalism in Italian Representation – PALIO
A look at the history of the “palio” in Tuscany, with a focus on a very unusual variant in Pienza – “Cacio al fuso,” or the cheese palio.