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 Agnese 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 [...]

Posted by Agnese 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.

Posted by Agnese 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 [...]

Posted by Agnese on October 6th, 2008

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