A Scholarship to Study in Italy

The Babilonia Italian Language School in Taormina, Sicily is offering 3 scholarships.  The entries must be written in Italian.  The instructions, details and links are here below: CONCORSO LETTERARIO INTERNAZIONALE “Tauromenion – Città di Taormina” 3 Borse di Studio  Al Concorso Letterario potranno partecipare tutti i cittadini stranieri amanti della lingua… Continue reading

Idiom of the Week

This week’s idiom is “a mano a mano”.  This expression’s generic form is “poco a poco”, which means “little by little” in English.  Just as in Italian, English also has an idiomatic version of this expression: “step by step”. Both idioms express the progress of little actions leading towards larger… Continue reading

Idiom of the Week

This week’s idiom is “chiocciola”.  Literally this word translates as “snail” in English, but its idiomatic use has no counterpart in English! When saying an email address to someone in italiano, you say “chiocciola” for where the at sign (@) goes in your address.  It’s quite logical really, “@” looks… Continue reading

Idiom of the Week

This week’s idiom is “Ora Legale” or in English “Daylight Savings Time”.The English idiom of “Daylight Savings Time” emphasizes the benefit of the moving forward of the clocks to have an extra hour of daylight in the evenings. The Italian “Ora Legale” meanwhile simply translates to “legal time”.Tonight, March 9,… Continue reading