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L'on. Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli, e' intervenuta all'incontro annuale dei Capi degli Uffici consolari e dei Rappresentanti dei Comites e Cgie indetto dall'Ambasciatore italiano a Washington, mentre ieri ha incontrato, sempre a Washington, il Presidente del Senato italiano in visita in America, Grasso. In occasione dell'incontro odierno, che aveva pe...

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The IIC and our language school, the IIS, are moving to a new location at 601 Van Ness Avenue (Opera Plaza) at the beginning of September. The new offices are close to a Bart and Muni station and the City Hall as well as the Hayes district with all its restaurants, cafes, bakeries and interesting shops. The Opera Plaza building itself is full of sh...

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by Elisabetta Grasso   A resent research has demonstrated that positive cognitive gains are associated with learning a second language in childhood. Starting from this particular statement the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum has decided to initiate a STEM bilingual program for children between two and a half and four years old in a true bilingu...

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Dear Fellow Citizen, Firstly, I wish to extend my cordial greetings to you and to your families. As you may know, we recently concluded the "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States" in the course of which a multitude of successful events were organized throughout the country and in particular in our consular jurisdiction, as a demonstra...

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di Enza Antenos e Luca Tontodonati   All'Università per Stranieri di Siena si è appena concluso il Convegno Internazionale AATI 2015. L'American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI, Associazione Americana degli insegnanti di Italiano) si riunisce annualmente per mettere a confronto metodologie di insegnamento e nuove ricerche in italian...

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by Miles Hoffman From the 1400's to the 1700's, the Italian word viola was the general term for any stringed instrument played with a bow. Viola da braccio, or "arm viola," was the generic name for any member of what we now call the modern violin family.   And even though it was always played between the legs, the instrument we now call the...

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The Umbra Institute is pleased to announce the 14th edition of the Intensive Italian through Culture Summer Program (May 30-July 12). The program, directed by Prof. Bob Proctor from Connecticut College, is a six-week/8 credits full immersion experience conducted entirely in Italian and open to students of all language proficienc...

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by Rick Zullo   I met Emanuele Pettener back in 2009, and it's safe to say that the meeting changed my life in many ways. I was enrolled in the Italian Studies program at F.A.U. in Boca Raton, Florida where he teaches. The class was Italian Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, taught entirely in Italian, which at the time stra...

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As part of our ongoing commitment for the promotion of the Italian language in the United States, the Consulate General of Italy has been in contact with the "School District of Philadelphia" in order to facilitate the participation of all external candidates in the Italian AP examination scheduled to take place on May 15 at noon.   Those wh...

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Sabato 17 ottobre scorso, l'On. Fucsia FitzGerald Nissoli ha partecipato, presso l'Ambasciata italiana a Washington, alla tradizionale riunione annuale di coordinamento consolare, indetta dall'Ambasciatore Bisogniero, con i Capi degli Uffici consolari, i Presidenti dei Comites, i Direttori degli Istituti di cultura e i neo eletti membri del CGIE....

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