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People - 12 Agosto 2018

Gestures, Body Language and their Meanings in Different Countries

Early humans communicated with one another with gestures. As their brain developed words and language ensured. However, gestures have always accompanied language to some extent

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People - 6 Agosto 2018

From Milan to Sicily, Stuart’s Return to the Past

The study of a foreign language as an adult can also represent a "return to the past," as in the case of Stuart who, during her husband's sabbatical year, decided to resume the study of the Italian language, moving for a period of time to Milan. During her visit she had the opportunity to visit Sicily where she experienced a fascinating religious procession, reminiscent of “The Godfather.” Here is her story

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People - 21 Giugno 2018

An American Girl in Italy: Erin and Her Semester of Study Abroad in Siena

Last January, Erin Kitchens began a semester of study abroad with the Siena Italian studies. Now, she is studying Italian, art, immigration, cooking and do volunteer work. She first came to Italy when she was 13 years old, and fell in love with this beautiful Country and its culture

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Arts - 11 Aprile 2018

Migrant Artists at InScena!2018: Italian Theater Made in USA

At the InScena!2018 Festival, two all-female production will be on stage featuring an all-female cast. We interviewed Tania Kass, the director of A Mother's Heart, and Federica Cellini, author and director of Dhana and the Rosebuds, two Italian artists who live in the US and told us more about their show.

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News - 12 Marzo 2018

Enrollments in Foreign Languages Continue to Fall: Italian Drops by 20%

Lower enrollments continue to be the national trend for all languages, except Japanese and Korean. Italian's sharp decline also changes its rank from 5th to 6th most commonly taught language. Don't abandon all hope, ye who teach Italian! The good news is that there are countless four-year institutions experiencing growth and/or stable enrollments in Italian: these are the programs we should investigate further

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Lifestyles - 11 Ottobre 2017

My “Awkward” Struggles as an Italian in New York (It’s Not About the Food)

If you ask Google to translate "awkward" into italian, you get several results, but in Italy we don't have "awkwardness". For example Jane Tylus, a professor of Italian at New York University, confirmed that there is no direct Italian translation of the word “awkward” intended as discomfort in a social setting. I came up with a solution: Awkward-phobic Americans should take a vacation to Italy.

Writer Amara Lakhous with the article's author, Teresa Fiore

English - 13 Maggio 2015

Amara Lakhous: The Italian language is my adoptive mother

Over the course of an engrossing conversation, Amara Lakhous, an Italian-Algerian writer, talked about Italian, a language he loves and in which he has chosen to write. As a non-native speaker, the process of acquiring Italian itself has made Lakhous “Italian but not very Italian.” For Lakhous, studying foreign languages is like acquiring a fundamental set of tools for life. (Leggi in italiano).

Left to right: Enza Antenos-Conforti, Maurita Cardone, Teresa Fiore, Giuseppe Malpasso, Jarrett Strenner and Omar Portilla at the presentation of the project Business Italian Style at Montclair State University

English - 18 Novembre 2014

Why study Italian in 2014? “Business Italian Style,” a university project focusing on videojournalism, offers a possible answer

Stemming from a dialogue between the Inserra Chair at Montclair State University (NJ), La VOCE di New York and Art Motion Picture, an experimental project was launched in order to connect students in a Commercial Italian class with people who have built a career around the “made in Italy” brand, thus locating the study of Italian in the professional world. (Leggi questo articolo in italiano)

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English - 14 Maggio 2014

Common Ground. Learning Italian as Form of Respect

Not only I want to be able to know what people are expressing, but I wish to reciprocate on somewhat of the same level. Learning the language is not only a matter of convenience and personal satisfaction, but also of respect for the Italian society that is now part of my life (Leggi in Italiano)

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