Amila Omanović: The Teacher Who Made The Balkans Learn Italian
How a young Bosnian linguist started giving online Italian language classes, making her students fall in love with the Bel Paese.
Becoming A Secondary School Teacher In Italy
Some call the teaching profession ‘a mission’. Given the uncertainty and Italy’s constantly changing recruitment rules, it truly is that.
Dialects, Languages And International Schools: Different Ways To Be Bilingual
Bilingual schools prepare children for a new globalized market. But what about Italy's already strong history of native bilingualism?
Fearscapes Of Italian Grammar
While watching a program on the relationship between wild dogs and marsh bucks, it occurred to me that the dynamic might shed some light on the development of language.
Integrated Italians
Do Italian speakers have a more integrated worldview than English speakers?
Ask An Italian: Dyslexia In Italian And English
We encouraged readers to send us stories about dyslexia. One did writing that dyslexia is more common with speakers of certain languages.
DAD Doesn’t Always Know Best: The Struggle To Save Italian Schools
Distance learning seemed like a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic, but the consquences of isolation and uncertaintly are profound.
Dyslexia Generally Misunderstood, Viewed With Prejudice
If someone didn’t tell you that so and so was dyslexic, you would never know it.
How To Truly Reform The Italian School System
Dated teaching methods and de facto barriers to entry are holding everyone back.
Italian Blues: Is The Beautiful Language On The Brink?
It might be time to panic about the Italian language, as mother tongue speakers continue to dwindle every year. Is there a solution out there?