Know your choir - Robyn Trinca

Know your choir – Robyn Trinca

Francesco Sofo’s warm invitation to join the choir got me past my reservations about my lack of a singing voice. I’ve been bumbling along with…

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Modi di dire - Andare...

Modi di dire – Andare…

Quando eravamo bambini andavamo a zonzo per i campi da mattina a sera. When we were children, we would be roaming in the fields from…

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Language corner - The gender of words

Language corner – The gender of words

Language evolves and typically reflects societal norms and cultural change. In Italian, as all students painfully learn, we have masculine and feminine genders and these…

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A bit of History - Le portatrici carniche

A bit of History – Le portatrici carniche

Many heroic deeds have been commemorated during the centenary of World War I but there is one aspect that relates to the Carnic Alps (in…

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Leonardo, we hardly knew you!

Leonardo, we hardly knew you!

The scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries is generally regarded as one of European civilisation’s greatest achievements. This revolution probably could not have…

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