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500 Courses on Video 9 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
RAI NETTUNO, in conjunction with Università Telematica Internazionale (UNINETTUNO) hosts a YouTube channel titled 500 Courses, a collection of video courses, documentaries and other educational materi...
2014 American Association of Italian Studies Conference 6 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
It's never too early to make plans. The 2014 American Association of Italian Studies Conference will be hosted by the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland on May 23-25, 2014.
Loan Words in Italian 6 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
A loan word in Italian has no obligation to repay its debt! Examples include: slalom, flamenco, click, manager, and baby-sitter .
Decameron in 100 Tweet 5 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Si può sintetizzare una novella del Decameron in 140 caratteri? La redazione di madrelingua lancia questo gioco per l'estate 2013: dal 1 agosto su Facebook e su @la_dante una novella al giorno sarà si...
Neologisms in Italian 30 Jul 2013 | 05:37 pm
Linguistic evolution is usually promoted by neologisms—either words taken from a foreign language (such as camping, or weekend) or words derived from words that already exist in Italian (such as lotti...
Look It Up: Italian Dictionaries 30 Jul 2013 | 05:09 pm
The best-known type of Italian dictionary is undoubtedly the dizionario monolingue; but there several other types, including the dizionario bilingue, the dizionario dell'uso, the dizionario storico, a...
Diminutive Form of Courtesy 29 Jul 2013 | 03:57 pm
In Italian, the diminutive form of courtesy is used to impart a friendly tone to a conversation or to engender a particular reaction on the part of the interlocutor.
Corruzione 28 Jul 2013 | 06:33 pm
In the latest newsletter from Società Dante Alighieri there's a column titled "Parole ritrovate" in which the word corruzione is examined: In latino corrumpere voleva dire sia 'fare in mille pezzi', ...
Forming the Italian Vocabulary 27 Jul 2013 | 12:44 pm
From a historic point of view the lexicon of the Italian language was formed from three fundamental components: Vulgar Latin, loan words, and neologisms.
Digging Up Italian 20 Jul 2013 | 04:56 pm
Smithsonian magazine has a fascinating article on paleopathology titled "CSI: Italian Renaissance," in which the author spends time in a lab in Pisa where forensics pathologist Gino Fornaciari and his...
