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Learning Italian in a Los Angeles kindergarten

Judith Harris

There is a public, not a private, school in California that is unique: it offers its students, beginning in kindergarten, full immersion in studies of a second language, which can...

Be Cool! Learn Italian Culture and Cuisine with Lidia

Maria teresa Cometto

Italian is becoming cooler and cooler in New York 200 American children in Harlem learn Italian culture and cuisine with the celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich

Tuscan ‘lingua franca’ Dialect vs. southern-Italian ‘indigenous’ Languages

Tom Verso

“You seem to be proud to speak the Neapolitan dialect...‘I am Neapolitan. I am very proud of my roots and I feel an intense connection to my city... And this also means...

Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland

Tom Verso

Indigenous languages suppressed by a foreign imposed lingua franca have shown profound capacity to reinvigorate themselves. If the ‘dead national languages’ of Norway and...

Archeology of Language: Sicilian ‘Beddu’ and Arabic ‘Badu’

Tom Verso

‘Forgetabout’ Verdi in Milan’s La Scala; more appropriate for southern-Italian Americans would be Michela Musolino’s "L’Evento in Memoria di Pino Veneziano" in...

Italian Americans Between Guidos and Columbus. An Interview with Nancy Carnevale

Ottorino Cappelli

There is nothing new in certain segments of the community trying to impose their views of what it means to be Italian American on others. This controversy reminds me of recent...

Per un “Verso” o per l’altro, non è un caso “Piccolo” da scartare*

Anthony Julian Tamburri

We need Italian language classes in our public schools, as well as courses in Italian/American history and culture. Both are necessary for our culture to thrive into the future.

Saving the AP in Italian. Is it just a question of money?

Anthony Julian Tamburri

Some not-too-random thoughts on the current situation of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian and who else might be able to come to the rescue…

Talking Italy

The Editors

As a contribution to the celebration of Italy's National Day, i-Italy goes to print with a special issue dedicated to Italy’s culture and language.

Losing in Translation

Jerry Krase

Potentially amusing linguistic reflections on Ian Fisher's New York Times article on Italy's "funk" and responses to the article by some in the Italian press

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