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When Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools students enter the classroom of their new Italian instructor, Tiziana Murray, they’re faced with an immediate challenge: a sentence on the board in need of translation. The classroom erupts in a flurry of activity as students check their notebooks to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and articl...

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On the first day of class, high school teacher Roberta Guttilla asks her new students why they want to learn Italian, and loves to hear their answers. “They tell me all these different stories,” Guttilla says. “They fell in love with the culture, they visited Italy once, they want to major in Italian in college. Or they say, ‘My great grandparents...

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At the beginning of 2023, I went to Santa Maddalena, a writers’ retreat run by the Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte. It was dark when I arrived at the train station and was driven up a bumpy Tuscan hill. I entered the threshold of the big stone house, and someone in the blur of new faces called out: “Buonasera.” I returned the greeting. “Parli...

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In August 1993, New York Times reporter Michael T. Kaufman wrote a column extolling yo as “a pithy, cheery and direct expression of common citizenship” that was “rooted in New York.” He went so far as to say that the city should add the greeting to its official seal. Kaufman admitted that yo may have originated in Philadelphia. “Then again,” he wro...

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The sexiest language in the world is Italian, as shown by the study conducted by Preply, which compiled the ranking by measuring the increase in heart rate of participants subjected to listening to various languages. Italian recorded a 23 percent increase in beats per minute. Second place for Portuguese (20 percent), third for French and Greek (18...

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In Italian, communication goes beyond mere verbalization and sentence construction. Words and sentences carry subtleties that often require physical expression. In some respects, Italians who cannot use their hands may find themselves rendered mute. As you walk along the streets in Italy or even in the Little Italy neighborhoods of America, you’ll...

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A native of Rome (Italy), Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies Luca Zipoli was trained at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he attended both the undergraduate and the graduate programs. During his Ph.D., he researched and taught as a visiting scholar at Princeton and at New York University. His main area of specialization is t...

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On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 in a highly anticipated ceremony, award winning artist and producer Simona Rodano was set to be honored with a prestigious award from the esteemed Comm. Joseph Sciame, a prominent member of the St. John's Preparatory School Board, as well as the President and Chair of the Italian Heritage Culture Month Committee in Ne...

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The seminar “Artificial Intelligence and Language Learning: The Italian Model” opened today at the Embassy of Italy in Washington the 23rd annual Week of the Italian Language in the World. “This year, the underlying theme of the Week of the Italian Language is sustainability, with particular reference to sustainable learning of the Italian language...

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The Italian Language Week has two main thematic strands: sustainability linked to a great intellectualot the 20th century, Italo Calvino (ante litteram environmentalist writer) and democracy through the contribution made by renowned Harvard former professor Gaetano Salvemini (an intellectual historian committed to the struggle for democracy).  Both...

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