Fabio Guarino
Le migliori pizzerie di Napoli Naples is known for being the homeland of pizza. The culinary symbol of the Neapolitan city has historical traditions that have been handed down from generation to generation. In fact, Neapolitan families have been preserving and transmitting this ancient gastronomic art to their descendants for centuries. Napoli è conosciuta per …
Although I have always loved Italian, learning the language really became important to me after my daughter met and married an Italian man while working in Torino, Italy. When we first met him his knowledge of the English language was already impressive and since living here in the U.K., he has achieved fluency. At the …
Italian and Spanish are both Romance languages developed out from Latin. The two linguistic entities share an extensive vocabulary and even their verb conjugations follow similar rules. Memorising the words and their spelling can be tricky, however, especially for a novice learner, given that some of words are written similarly or in exactly the same …
Verbs are a category of words that instead of indicating a thing or a quality such as a noun or an adjective, specify an action. The presence of verbs is recognised as what linguists call an absolute linguistic universal, or in other words, a pattern that exists across all languages. In the Italian language, some …
Italy is a country brimming with hundreds of local and minor languages and dialects. These linguistic entities began to arise soon after the fall of the Roman Empire. And since then, they have sculpted and modelled a society which, after many years, finally adopted a single standard language: Italian. Nevertheless, local dialects have survived the …
The Standard Italian Language, or more simply Italian, is the official language of Italy. It is spoken by approximately 70 million people who mostly reside on the Mediterranean Peninsula or its islands such as Sicily and Sardinia. However, it is also used in the southern areas of Switzerland – specifically in the Ticino and Graubünden …