Italian Language

Introduction Dozens of resources are available for learning Italian. But there’s a problem. When you look for advice on what resources to use, your level, goals and budget usually aren’t taken into consideration. And most of the tools aren’t recommended because they’re the best but because the website owner is receiving…

“Italian is such a difficult language. How did you learn it?” Though it has been 17 years, I still get asked this question sometimes. Learning a language to the point of fluency is not an easy task. I have tried with several other languages over the years. In fact, I…

10 January 2021 I’ve started trying to take a page of notes in Italian per day, and it’s been working so far, except for Thursday. This means I end up going over multiple concepts per day. Yesterday, for example, I took notes over the Futuro Semplice (Simple Future) as well…

26 December 2020 I’ll start first by talking about the languages I want to learn before assigning them a time. I’ve never been the best with planning, and that can for sure be seen in my language-learning journey (just this summer, I had a fling with Greek that only lasted…

How to overcome shyness when speaking Italian by Gloria Spagnoli | 18/11/2020 Have you ever felt like you wanted to speak Italian to someone but were too shy to do so? You start to sweat, your heart races, you blush, and you don’t approach anyone. What happened here? It might be that you’re truly shy. But what…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies (QULSO) — Maria Teresa Venturi, University of Florence Perhaps, among the many souls of Pier Paolo Pasolini, well known as a poet, novelist, journalist, screenwriter, director, critic and intellectual corsair, his vocation as a linguist does not seem to have enjoyed the deserved importance to date: in reality, the vital core of…

L’emergenza Covid-19 e il ruolo della stampa — Tratto dall’articolo originale in Inglese “Spot the impact of covid-19 per municipality in Italy” pubblicato in data: 5 Maggio 2020 Negli ultimi 4 mesi il mondo è cambiato drasticamente e i media hanno iniziato a spostare l’attenzione sull’emergenza Covid-19. Analizzando un campione di milioni di notizie recentemente pubblicate, raccolte e…

Supervised machine learning vs deep learning architecture — Tratto dall’articolo originale in Inglese “How we can source reliable news: tackling the ‘disinfodemic’ crisis” pubblicato in data: 29 Aprile 2020 Una delle recenti tendenze esasperate dalla diffusione di Internet e dei social media in particolare è la più ampia diffusione delle notizie false. Il 15 aprile 2020 un rapporto…