Category: Fleming
Learn Italian Lesson 4
In this lesson we learn how to talk about things around the house, review definite article and the verb to be, and get introduced to some descriptive adjectives that should be immediately useful.
Siena III: The Legacy
But beyond commercial rivalry and the Guelph/Ghibelline feud, there is the fact that all these little Tuscan cities–especially Siena–were ferociously competitive, both internally and with rival cities. They competed not just for commercial domination and military might, but also for beauty.
Learn Italian, Lesson 3
This may be the last time I list all the vocabulary of the LL. If your set has not arrived, be sure to concentrate on the vocabulary and grammar I have presented in 1-3, because then you will only need to breeze through these lessons in LL.
Learn Italian 2
Italian has two genders, masculine and feminine. While words pertaining to male (uomo, ragazzo, fratello, dottore) are usually masculine and words pertaining to female (donna, moglie, ragazza, dottoressa) are feminine, these are the only cases where grammatical gender has anything to do with sexuality.
The 6 Crises, “The U-2”
President Eisenhower’s response to the downing of the U-2 spy plane in 1960 exposed the dishonesty and incompetence of the government agency that never never never operates on American soil.
Learning Italian: Lesson One Audio
This is a crude first attempt. In future I hope to insert the audio into the lesson text If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section.
Machiavelli’s The Prince, IX-XIII
Although most of what Machiavelli says applies more to despotic regimes, he does indicate his support for what he calls in Latin a Principatus Civilis, a civil principality, that is one that respects the rights and traditions of citizens.
Learning Italian 1: Postscript on Pronunciation
Rather than present the entire alphabet with pronunciation, let us start with the vowels.
