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One of history’s women who made a difference Drinking fountains for whites and others for blacks, schools for whites and schools for blacks, white kids had a school bus, most…
Year of The Snake: Chinese New Year is celebrated acro”sssssssss” the world Firecrackers traditionally made from bamboo shoots and gunpowder set skies alight in Chinese communities and Chinatowns across the…
The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci (1495-1498) Italian is among the most studied foreign languages worldwide and is in the top ten in American Universities. What is the attraction? Italy,…
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Celebrate a “Happy New Year” with 10 new ways to say it Every new Year brings with it joy, happiness, and resolutions – of which one is often learning a…
Where is Santa originally from? Ole Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of giving was born in Patara and made his way through Palestine and Egypt giving coins generously to the…
L’influenza sempre maggiore che la lingua inglese esercita sull’italiano è un dato di fatto. Abbiamo importato l’uso del fax, facciamo networking, clickiamo quotidianamente il mouse, vediamo la televisione in streaming,…
Setting sail American Thanksgiving can be traced back to 1621 when about 100 European travellers set sail from England, most looking for religious freedom, on the Mayflower. After landing in…
A short history of halloween Halloween started with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain 2,000 years ago in Ireland, Scotland and northern France. The Celts celebrated their new year on…
Traduzioni imbarazzanti Quando si è alla ricerca di un lavoro, la prima cosa da fare è preparare e inviare il proprio Curriculum Vitae (CV) insieme ad una lettera di accompagnamento…
E’ tornato l’autunno, e ci stiamo lentamente riabituando all’idea di essere ritornati al lavoro e a scuola dopo le vacanze “Go back” è un verbo frasale. Un verbo frasale è…
When the going gets tough, the tough staycation I called a friend in New York the other day to see how he was doing. He said “I’m really good, I’m…
Dal 2014 al Politecnico di Milano l’inglese sarà prima lingua. In un mondo globalizzato l’inglese diviene uno strumento di lavoro indispensabile. L’ennesima prova di questa affermazione è la scelta del…
L’Italia si classifica dopo Costa Rica e Corea del Sud, ma appena prima della Spagna, in termini di conoscenza della lingua inglese. Sono appena rientrata da un weekend a Valencia,…
