In my opinion slang is one of the funniest parts of a language to learn, but not the easiest (for example young expressions change fast and a non-native speaker, but also older people can’t hold the track of new expressions). It is a register that can be used un informal situatiin, especially with native speakers, but you should stake to…

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The first time I saw this painting I was reading an art book for children and little did I know that it would have been my favourite painting and that I would bought a book about the artist written in French only because there was the picture of this painting. I was fascinated by the picture, there was something that disturbed me but it was…

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I do like art. I study art history at university. My favorite art branch is painting. I go quite often to museums.

In reality, I found out my love for art through modern art, trough Empire des lumieres by the surrealist painter Renè Magritte, then I expanded myself to all the 20th century.

I don’t have a ‘general’ favorite artist, but my…

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When TV arrived in everybody’s home in Italy in the sixties the national public broadcasting company of Italy, RAI, broadcast “Non è mai troppo tardi” (in a literal translation “It’s never too late”), a TV program presented by Alberto Manzi, who taught Italian to Italian people who were illiterate. However, in the early years of national…

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When TV arrived in everybody’s home in Italy in the sixties the national public broadcasting company of Italy, RAI, broadcast “Non è mai troppo tardi” (in a literal translation “It’s never too late”), a TV program conducted by Alberto Manzi, who taught Italian to Italian people who were illiterate. But in the early years of national Italian TV…

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