Job descriptionPart time teaching position; Small classes (5 to 10 students); Flexible schedule and syllabus. Job applicant requirementsLanguages: Italian – native speaker or level C1 (Common European Framework); English – fluent; Spanish – not required but preferableLaurea triennale or equivalent.Experience in teaching Italian...
READ MOREWith words like api (happy), sangawich (sandwich), agida (stomach acid) and tencsalotto (thanks a lot), every Italian immigrant succeeded in communicating bilingually thanks to italiese. First coined by Gianrenzo Clivio in 1975, italiese (italiano + inglese) was used to describe the mixture of Italian and English spoken by immigrants in North Ameri...
READ MOREThe Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas seeks applications for a full-time instructor in Italian. Appointment, to begin 15 August 2014, is for one, nine-month academic year. This position is renewable on a year-to-year basis contingent upon performance, needs and available funding. Minimum requirem...
READ MOREby Sally Ho Spanish still may be the runaway favorite for students learning a foreign language in Illinois, but one northwest suburban teacher has nearly quadrupled enrollment for a less ubiquitous language –Italian. Lisa Sasso, an Italian teacher at South Middle School at 400 S. Highland Ave., started the foreign language program...
READ MOREThe Università per Stranieri di Perugia is pleased to announce that a two-week-long AP Italian Language and Culture Institute will be held from July 14 to July 26, 2014, in Perugia, Italy. The AP Italian Language and Culture Summer Institute will focus on la vita quotidiana, across the six guiding themes (Global Challenges; Science and Tec...
READ MOREOn Wednesday, June 4th more than 49 smiling children, ages 4 -12, joined Camp Italia at the Garden City Public Library for a free Italian session in language and culture. The event was presented by Camp Italia of Garden City in partnership with New York Italians in an effort to introduce children to a world language and its culture in a fu...
READ MOREby Vincenzo Marra Era il 15 Aprile del 2004 quando, dopo un anno di preparativi, nasceva ILICA, l'Italian Language Intercultural Alliance, con la missione di capitalizzare sulla lingua e la cultura italiana la ricchezza di un gruppo etnico in crisi di identità. ILICA ha sempre dichiarato di voler essere complementare a chi, con tanto sacr...
READ MOREThe Director of the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, Dr. Mary Ann Re, is delighted to announce that, recognizing the importance of acknowledging and motivating excellence in the teaching of Italian, the Coccia family and Lawrence Inserra, Jr., have generously increased to $4,000 the monetary prize associated with the Teaching...
READ MOREIt may be because it sounds like music or because it is the language of one of the most influential literatures in human history, but Italian has been found to be the 4th most studied language in the world in 2014, following English, French, and Spanish. This significant result is something that the Italian government, as well as the insti...
READ MOREby Carol Comegno High school junior Dylan Skidmore is not Italian, but that's of no matter. He has been pursuing all things Italian — taking an Italian language course at Glassboro High School, joining its Italian club, dancing with its new Italian folk troupe, making pasta and pizza, and waiting for the club's spring trip to Italy....
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