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  WTI Magazine #83    2016 September 16Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ      Translation by:   Ciao, beddu, chi si dici? Se te dì cus'è? Ah Italy! The country of that beautiful and melodic language called Italian. But did you know that Italian isn't the only "language" spoken in the peninsula? For instance, try using your Italian...

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The Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts, Inc., is offering Italian language classes for adults this Fall.   A Beginner I level class will be offered on Monday nights and will run from Sept.8, through Nov. 17. A Beginner II level class will be offered on Tuesday nights and will run from Sept. 9, through Nov. 18.   Read mo...

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Patrick L. Gilkey, a Lincoln High senior has been awarded a 2015 Corona D'Italia $500.00 scholarship. This award is given to a child or grandchild of an active member of the Corona D'Italia Lodge #807 or Sons of Italy #607 who attain the scholastic record and involvement in school activities as required.   The grandson of member Mary Jane Fo...

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Just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco — and 700 years into the past — distinguished professors from all over the world are lecturing on the work of 14th century Florentine poet and humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, renown for works such as Decameron and On Famous Women. Recently, San Franciscans enjoyed Pier Paolo Pasolini's Decameron at the Cas...

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The Italian American Community gives us the opportunity to meet versatile men and women: very successful persons on their job, who also serve some Italian institutions with passion and dedication, proudly giving their time and their experience for the best interest of Italy in the USA. Our guest for the first interview of 2014 is definitively one o...

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Erin Dolan, a senior from North Kingstown and student at Bay View Academy, earned the Rhode Island Teachers of Italian 2014 Advisory Board Monetary Award for Italian IV, with a cash prize of $300.   This is award is given every year to only one Italian IV or V student and is chosen based on student submitted essays on the topic, "How will th...

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Joseph Sciame, Vice President for Community Relations and St. John's University alumnus, has received Knighthood in the Order of Pope St. Sylvester. This honor, one of the highest given by the Vatican, honors the contributions of lay people from Christian and non-Christian faiths for their contributions to the Church.   The award was present...

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di Federico Fubini   L'Italia ha costruito centinaia di chilometri di rete ferroviaria ad alta velocità e ne ha fatto dono alla Gran Bretagna. Ha investito in due enormi reti Internet a fibra ottica, perché siano installate in Germania e in Svizzera. Naturalmente non è vero.   Se lo fosse, la tivù mostrerebbe zuffe a Montecitorio, sin...

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RICORDA: SE TI ISCRIVI ALL'ESAME AP DI ITALIANO PUOI PARTECIPARE ALL'ESTRAZIONE DI BORSE DI STUDIO PER CORSI DI ITALIANO IN ITALIA – SEGUI LE NEWS SU: www.usspeaksitalian.org ewww.ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/Ambasciata_Washington SE HAI UN DIPLOMA DI HIGH SCHOOL AMERICANO EVUOI ISCRIVERTI AD UNA UNIVERSITA' ITALIANATI SARANNO SUFFICIENTI L'ESAME AP...

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In un articolo apparso sul Corriere della Sera nel gennaio 2010, il noto filologo e critico letterario Cesare Segre denunciava la crisi della nostra lingua e l'uso improprio che se ne fa nella vita di tutti i giorni, specialmente nei differenti contesti in cui viene applicata. Segre insisteva in particolare sulla mancanza di selettività dei cosidde...

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