Miscellaneaous
You can’t control what is coming next in life. The same thing happens with books. Miscellaneous is a big surprise.
Teaching Adults
Teaching Adults The first meeting with a student is always decisive for how our teacher-student relationship will proceed. Getting it wrong means wasting a lot of time getting it right, and sometimes it never gets right. When I started teaching, I had only experienced...
Cultural Gap
A silent lesson When I want to explain the cultural differences between England and Italy, I tell two anecdotes I personally experienced. It was December 2004, and my husband and I were in London for a weekend. Our hotel was on the opposite banks of the River Thames...
The Patient Nightmare
The Patient Nightmare There are two words with the same meaning, the English un-ex-pect-ed-ly and in-as-pet-ta-ta-men-te in Italian, that I can’t say light-heartedly. I need to pause. I need awareness and concentration so my mouth can perform all the required...
“Beati coloro che hanno un paese dove tornare…”(Anonimo)*
“Beati sono coloro che hanno un paese a cui tornare…” (Anonimo) “Happy are those who have a village to return to…” (Unknown) "Filignano has its origins before the year 1,000 of the Christian age; we find its name in a document of 962 as registered in "Cronica...
Yours Unfaithfully
which language “Pat! have you read this book?” My husband was showing me the screen of his e-reader. “Didn’t you know we have the paper book in Italian in the bookcase? Left side third shelf from the bottom. No, I started reading it, but it just didn’t ‘take off,' so...
