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Blog Sign up! Links      Blog: Becoming Italian Word by Word Some people are born Italian. Others become Italian through a passion for Italy's food, music, art, history or way of living. Unlike these Italianophiles, I chose to inhabit the language, as bawdy as it is beautiful, as intriguing and elusive as Mona Lisa's smile. For more than two decades I have studied Italian every way I could find—classes, conversation groups, CDs, podcasts, flashcards, films—in Italy and in the United States. In the process I acquired much more than a second language. I learned a new way of seeing, hearing, speaking and being in the world. Word by word, I found myself becoming Italian. This blog, Becoming Italian Word by Word, features terms and expressions that opened a window for me into Italian life and culture. I do not claim to be a scholar or linguist, and I apologize for any strafalcioni (gross blunders). Click below to join in, and please feel free to set me straight and to share your thoughts, comments and experiences—in English or Italian.   Sign up! Mailing list members receive information about all things Italian! This mailing list is private... your e-mail address will not be shared. Note that the company we use, VerticalResponse.com, is a no-spam email service. If you have a spam-blocker on your email account, you may need to put Becoming_Italian@mail.vresp.com into your contacts or on your approved list in order to receive newsletters. Email Address:   Links BLOGS Life in Italy An Ex-Pat in Umbria: Brigolante Guest Apartments: Farm Holiday Bleeding Espresso Under an Olive Tree Enduring Wanderlust Friends and Family in Italy Lost in Sicily Rubber Slippers in Italy 2 Baci in a Pinon Tree Travel in Italy What's New in Italy dreamofitaly.com fodors.com goitaly.about.com wanderingitaly.com/blog Italian-American perspectives www.italianamericangirl.com Italian Food and Wine Mama Margaret & Friends Italian Wine Merchants Cook-Italian.com Newyork.joonbug.com Other Authors Mirella Patzer   ITALIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES In English Italian.about.com Languages 4 Fun In English and Italian Diario di Una Studentessa Matta Accademia della Crusca Società Dante Alighieri main page Società Dante Alighieri in Florence (English and Italian options on main page) Società Dante Alighieri in Rome (language options on site)   STUDYING ITALIAN Italian Cultural Institute (istituto Italiano di Cultura), San Francisco, CA Sacramento Italian Cultural Society ItaLingua Institute San Francisco Bay area La Piazza di Carolina, Italian Cultural Center and Preschool Speak! Language Center Charlottesville, VA Living Language For Children Girontondo Italian Academy, San Rafael, CA La Piccola Scuola, San Francisco, CA Parliamo Italiano, Mill Valley, CA In Italy Società Dante Alighieri, Firenze Società Dante Alighieri, Roma Venice Italian School Accademia Lingua Italiana Assisi La Lingua La Vita Todi   ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESOURCES Italian Cultural Center, San Diego WisItalia Coccia Foundation Italian-American Digital Project National Italian American Foundation Order of the Sons of Italy UNICO   ITALIAN PRODUCTS A.G. Ferrari Foods   TOURING ITALIAN Go Ahead Tours Dream of Italy Fodor's travel guides How to Tour Europe Una Bella Vista   RENTING IN ITALY ApartmentsFlorence Roman Reference   ITALIAN HOTELS Il Pellicano Palazzo Magnani Feroni ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTES United States Chicago Los Angeles New York San Francisco Washington D.C. International Ankara, Turkey Athens, Greece Barcelona, Spain Berlin, Germany Bratislava, Slovakia Bucharest, Romania Budapest, Hungary Cairo, Egypt Dublin, Ireland Istanbul, Turkey Kiev, Ukraine Krakow, Poland Lisbon, Portugal Ljubljana, Slovenia London, England Montreal, Canada New Delhi, India Paris, France Pechino, China Prague, Czech Republic Pretoria, South Africa Rabat, Morocco Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Shanghai, China Singapore, Republic of Singapore Stockholm, Sweden Sydney, Australia Toronto, Canada Vancouver, Canada Vilnius, Lithuania