Professor Tom Means of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Modern Languages Department recently discovered that the BMCC Italian program, in which enrollment has quadrupled since 2000, is the largest Italian program among community colleges, nationwide. Professor Means has also just published an article examining language learning, in Italica, a top peer-reviewed journal in the field of Italian Studies.

"The thrust of the article is about how the majority of our Italian students are Hispanic, and that through a linguistic phenomenon called 'intercomprehension', Spanish speakers are able to decode Italian rather naturally," says Means. After submitting the article for publication, he continued his research. 

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