“An Unconvenient truth” December 11, 2006

intro
I haven’t post for a while , someone asks for new post and here you are. I need something interesting to say before posting , these days I haven’t had interesting things to share or interesting English notes to record and I have to confess that I haven’t had the right [...]

Justice, legality in words (English) and world (Italy) November 21, 2006

In a comment here I have said that justice can be unfair. therefore I have noticed that in italian we haven’t the word fair. In Italian there is a word less, relating to justice… but we have a word more for the opposite, I mean mafia, please don’t draw any conclusion!
It seems [...]

development of an exercise book November 12, 2006

I want to make this blog less selfish.
I have started this blog as an exercise book for learning English. But language is not neutral. When you are learning a language you have to face with contents not only form.
I have written a comment to a post of Alabaster , were I have used [...]

nobel prize winners and education loosers October 11, 2006

 
 
Nobel prize winners in Chemistry , in Physics and in Medicine are all from U.S.A., also in Economic science… Bravi!
In Italy , on the other hand , I have read that we have a big problem of illiteracy … I’m very sorry and I can’t find out what is the [...]

the wall October 5, 2006

I have read about the great idea of another wall-barrier in the world. We really miss it ! I can’t believe it. History didn’t teach us anything. Walls is the answer in Palestine , and now on the border between U.S.A. and Mexico. I don’t think that it can solve the problem. Actually I don’t [...]

Brick Lane ( by M. Ali) September 12, 2006

This is my second reading in English. I have to admit that I skipped a lot, but not enough to not understand the story. It is about the Nazneen ’s life within an arranged wedding in a foreign country.
I found the letters from Nazneen’s sister, Hasina, very hard to understand.
I liked this novel but… [...]

left-handed’s day August 31, 2006

I am left-handed, I’m lefty. I find a lot of discussions, articles and stuff about left-handedness on the Internet, also because of there was a left-handeds’ day few days ago. I can’t help to wonder why most left-handeds talk about it as well as we lefties are different and belonging to a special community. I [...]

“About a Boy”, my first reading in English !!! August 27, 2006

I have red my first English book , an easy and nice one, “About a Boy” by Nick Hornby. This is a goal for me! Brava!( there is not a proper translation for this Italian word that can works as well, in my opinion…. any suggestion?)
I had started looking up my dictionary every time I [...]

Trivial July 20, 2006

I’m sad, only because I’m always anger. I feel misunderstood.I likely behave in a different way from others… A lot of very close people say me that I’m strange, odd. I’m not actually strange. I’m on average.
I hate noise, I can’t bear the people that make noise, and noisy devices such as [...]

English is strange July 18, 2006

to cleave means both to divide and to unite !!!
How can English speakings understand each other?
Have I to give up with English? This is my challenge! I never give up!
Give me a cleaver, I want to fight !