The Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College seeks a visiting faculty member for an appointment in Italian for the 2015-16 academic year.   Courses will be in language and literature, with a maximum of five trimester courses available. Requirements include native or near-native fluency in Italian, experience in college-level lan...

Oaks Christian Online (OCO) School is launching several high-level online language course alternatives, including online American Sign Language and Italian. To begin the process of writing online Italian courses, Oaks Christian virtual high school has hired Antoinette Cavaliere of New York as a course writer and subject matter expert.   Anto...

La Società Dante Alighieri di Cambridge, cerca delle persone interessate a cantare nel Coro del Dante. Il Coro ha l'intento di promuovere la conoscenza della lingua e della cultura Italiana attraverso le canzoni e la musica italiana di tutti i tempi.   IL REPERTORIO e IL CORO: Il coro ha adesso sessanta elementi inscritto (soprano, contralto...

By providing interesting insights into a culture, idioms and sayings add color to a language. Obviously, this also happens with the Italian Language.   L'Italiano presents many common proverbs and idiomatic expressions, used so often by people in everyday talk that you can use just the first fragment of the sentence (maybe accompanied by a s...

Durante gli Stati Generali della lingua italiana nel mondo che si sono svolti a Firenze il 21 e 22 ottobre è stato pubblicato il libro bianco "l'italiano nel mondo che cambia" che contiene molte informazioni interessanti. In particolare, un capitolo sullo stato dell'italiano nel mondo da cui si evince che l'italiano, a livello mondiale, è stud...

Fantastico! Ridgefield High School celebrated Italian Heritage Month throughout October with a special focus on Italian Americans in sports.   On Oct. 28, students studying Italian in levels 1 to 4 Honors celebrated with parties during class periods; celebrations included Italian dance, food and music. Throughout the hallways a chorus of voi...

  WTI Magazine #56    2015 March, 20Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   The word "passo" (step) is used with the verb "fare" (to do) as in "fare un passo" (literally, to do one step) or "fare due/quattro passi" (which in Italian means "to take a walk"). Even with such a simple word, we find plenty of common sa...

La Nona Conferenza dei Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo del 14 dicembre ha avuto un momento particolarmente significativo con la cerimonia di premiazione del concorso letterario sponsorizzato dal Comites in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale d'Italia, con il duplice obiettivo di promuovere la lingua e cultura italiana presso i giovani, e al tem...

By Mauro Battocchi   We are deeply honored to have His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero visit San Francisco on February 13 and join us for a luncheon organized by the Italian Athletic Club in North Beach (SFIAC) and by the new online channel for the Italians of Northern California, "La Scintilla."   You are cordially invited to be with u...

Nicholas Caggiano, commissioner of the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture, and Maria Teresa Morrison, representative of both the commission and UNICO, donated copies of a book on recovered Italian art to Cape Henlopen High School's Italian students and to the main CHHS library.   The book is a catalog of art that was exhibit...