How many of you have heard of “Esperanto”, an international language? Not many, I suppose. Let me tell you what it is: Esperanto is an artificial language. This means it was created on purpose, and it is not the natural consequence of the evolution of any communication system. Was it the first attempt to create […]
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Are you a foreigner living in Ireland? Are you planning your holiday or business trip to one of the friendliest countries in the world? Here is a compilation of useful tips on how to behave in order not to insult the Irish who will probably be the loveliest people you have ever met. Greeting: handshake
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Successo, una parola particolare ad esser sinceri, poiche di successo ella stessa: e qualcosa di cui tutti parlano, che tutti vogliono. Sin da bambini almeno una volta abbiamo detto ai genitori
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By some known as a poet, by others as a translator or a dissident – he was all of these things. Stanislaw Baranczak defied censorship in the communist Poland, wrote poems and essays which were clearly anti-establishment at the time. He lost his job as a teacher in Poland when he helped to found the
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Everybody knows the Thousand and One Nights. Not many people are aware of the long and varied story hidden inside its pages. As many oral-transmitted texts, the Thousand and One Nights is a composite work. The frame story, along with the first and more ancient core of tales, came from India and Persia. This part
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Have you ever seen Woody Allen talking fluent German? Or Robert De Niro joking in Chinese? Actors can speak more languages than you expect thanks to the techniques used to translate film dialogues and in particular to the dubbing. The term “dubbing”, known also as “revoicing”, commonly refers to the replacement of the voices of
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Palmanova is a small town located in the north-western Italian region of Friuli, at less than 100 km from Venice. The Great Council of the Serenissima (also known as the Venetian Republic) needed a well-protected outpost to protect its eastern frontier from the Ottoman attacks. Initially, the project was assigned to Leonardo da Vinci, who
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Each year the Muslim community celebrates Ramadan, an ancient festivity that commemorates the revelation of Quran to the prophet Muhammad. Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of the Islamic belief. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast, unless they are ill, pregnant, breastfeeding or travelling. Ramadan takes place during the ninth month
Cada ano, la comunidad musulmana celebra el Ramadan, una festividad que se remonta a cientos de anos en el pasado y que conmemora la revelacion del Coran al profeta Mahoma. El Ramadan es considerado como uno de los cinco pilares de la fe islamica. Durante este mes del calendario mahometano, los musulmanes practican el ritual
Manx or Manx Gaelic (Gaelg/Gailck) belongs to Goidelic branch of the Insular Celtic languages. It emerged from the Old Irish (Gaelic) which was brought to the Isle of Man, an island located in north of the Irish Sea between England and Ireland, during the fourth and fifth centuries AD, by Irish people who moved there.
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