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Learning the language

This post isn’t strictly about Abruzzo, but it does reflect an important and obvious aspect of spending time anywhere in Italy; namely the Italian language.

 I think Italian is a beautiful language. It rises and falls with ideas and emotion. I have met many English speakers who appear to speak with one tone only but [...]

Improve Your Italian By Keeping In Touch

My Italian isn’t great. I work at it, but it is far from fluent. I can hold a basic conversation, and with a mixture of Italian, gestures, stock phases like “I am looking for something that can …” or “What is this called?”, I get by. I want to get better. But like anything you [...]