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Sto caricando le informazioni... La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language (2009)di Dianne Hales
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Hales gave me a feel for Italian. ( ) I bought this book after I traveled to Italy myself. I was fascinated by the culture and country and wanted to take something home with me that I could constantly refer to as a memory. This book was actually being sold in a train station in Florence so I decided to pick it up. And I am so glad I did! It is a beautiful book and perfectly captures the wonderful essence of Italian culture. It was a truly wonderful read and I will definitely reread it the next time I miss that country. Takes you through Hales' personal "affair' with Italian, as well as the history of the language and its influence on literature, music, love, art, food, etc. Enjoyable way to learn about the language (as compared with "The Pursuit of Italy," which is a more dry history that I ended up skimming). I will revisit this book as I seek to acquire better idiomatic knowledge of Italian. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian. For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy of living the Italian life is powerfully seductive. But to truly become Italian, one must learn the language. This is how Dianne Hales began her journey. In La Bella Lingua, she brings the story of her decades-long experience with the "the world's most loved and lovable language" together with explorations of Italy' s history, literature, art, music, movies, lifestyle and food in a true opera amorosa -- a labor of her love of Italy. Over the course of twenty-five years, she has studied Italian through Berlitz, books, CDs, podcasts, private tutorials and conversation groups, and, most importantly, time spent in Italy. In the process the Italian language became not just a passion and a pleasure, but a passport into Italy's storia and its very soul. She invites readers to join her as she traces the evolution of Italian in the zesty graffiti on the walls of Pompeii, in Dante's incandescent cantos and in Boccaccio's bawdy Decameron. She portrays how social graces remain woven into the fabric of Italian: even the chipper "ciao," which does double duty as "hi" and "bye," reflects centuries of bella figura. And she exalts the glories of Italy's food and its rich and often uproarious gastronomic language: Italians deftly describe someone uptight as a baccala (dried cod), a busybody who noses into everything as a prezzemolo (parsley), a worthless or banal movie as a polpettone (large meatball). Like Dianne, readers of La Bella Lingua will find themselves innamorata, enchanted, by Italian, fascinated by its saga, tantalized by its adventures, addicted to its sound, and ever eager to spend more time in its company. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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