Archive for October, 2008

Halloween, una festa nella tradizione regionale italiana?!?

Is Halloween only a north  European Holiday? I am not sure of it. Look here this Italian tradition and tell me, what do you think of it.  
La parola Halloween deriva dall’inglese All Hallows’ day (giorno di tutti i Santi) ed infatti la festa di Halloween si celebra la notte tra il 31 ottobre [...]

Posted by admin on October 27th, 2008

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The Italian improper prepositions 2: prepositions - adjectives and -participles

We have already spoken about the improper prepostions with adverbs. Now we see adjectives and participles which have this peculiarity.
Italian adjectives that can be used as prepositions are: vicino, lontano, salvo, lungo, secondo ecc.
I can say:
Questa strada è molto lunga and in this case lunga is an adjective, but I can also say
lungo il [...]

Posted by admin on October 14th, 2008

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The Italian improper prepositions 1: prepositions - adverbs

In addition to the proper prepositions (di, a, da, in, con, su, per, tra, fra) we use in Italian other words which have the same function of a preposition but they can be adverbs, adjectives or participles. Therefore these words are named improper prepositions.
Now we see some adverbs that have this peculiarity.
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Posted by admin on October 14th, 2008

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Parking Pincio, si smantella (level: intermediate)

di Franco Pasqualetti da: “Leggo” giornale gratuito del 06/10/2008

Il progetto per il parcheggio del Pincio è ormai archiviato. E dal prossimo 20 ottobre anche lo scheletro del cantiere sarà solo un ricordo. Partiranno infatti le operazioni di smantellamento: via bandoni, ruspe, impastatrici. La collina, sconquassata da mesi di sondaggi e lavori, tornerà entro la prossima [...]

Posted by admin on October 6th, 2008

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