Florence or Bologna
Mar 7th, 2011, 02:14 PM
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well, as i have posted on another thread, I AM now going to Italy to attend a language school.
so i will be very interested in what you decide to do Bruce, as i am going through more or less the same process, though I am leaning towards somewhere that can offer me a lot of extra activities, as i think that this will make for a more interesting stay, as I am going by myself.
this is the one that i am seriously considering:
http://www.linguaterramare.com/
they have small class sizes and the language, wine and cookery course sounds a lot of fun. and i suspect that there are few english speakers in the area so we sill have to practice while we are there.
after a week there i will spend a few days in Florence practising my newfound skills, before heading home.
Actually, i am not too fussed about accents. i spent a lot of time in an area of Germany where they have a very strong accent, which when I am there i tend to lapse into, but when i am elsewhere, I revert to "Hochdeutsch" with no problem at all.
so i will be very interested in what you decide to do Bruce, as i am going through more or less the same process, though I am leaning towards somewhere that can offer me a lot of extra activities, as i think that this will make for a more interesting stay, as I am going by myself.
this is the one that i am seriously considering:
http://www.linguaterramare.com/
they have small class sizes and the language, wine and cookery course sounds a lot of fun. and i suspect that there are few english speakers in the area so we sill have to practice while we are there.
after a week there i will spend a few days in Florence practising my newfound skills, before heading home.
Actually, i am not too fussed about accents. i spent a lot of time in an area of Germany where they have a very strong accent, which when I am there i tend to lapse into, but when i am elsewhere, I revert to "Hochdeutsch" with no problem at all.
Mar 12th, 2011, 04:24 AM
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The tickets have been purchased!
I have decided to do 3 weeks in Salerno, 2 weeks in Rome, 4 weeks in Bologna, and 2 weeks in Genoa.
This will give me plenty of time to acclimate to each area and do day/ weekend trips to nearby destinations.
I can hardly wait till my 90 days have gone by so that I can come back and I havent even left yet.
Thanks to all,
Bruce
I have decided to do 3 weeks in Salerno, 2 weeks in Rome, 4 weeks in Bologna, and 2 weeks in Genoa.
This will give me plenty of time to acclimate to each area and do day/ weekend trips to nearby destinations.
I can hardly wait till my 90 days have gone by so that I can come back and I havent even left yet.
Thanks to all,
Bruce
Mar 13th, 2011, 05:20 AM
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Many of your replies seem to be written by Italian. Infact an Italian will always tell you that food in their part of Italy is better than in other parts of the country , people are friendlier, the weather is better, and so on and so forth. Infact there is a word to express this BIAS in Italian (because it is a bias, I think) : CAMPANILISMO. The Campanile is the Church tower, infact in Italy you'll find at least a Church in every tiny village you go, and sometimes you even find gorgeous gothic or medioeval Churches even in villages of 1000 or less people. Anyway this kind of bias (which is so typical Italian) and which basically consists of saying that everything is better in your part of the country ( but more often even your town or village) than anywhere else in Italy is so genuinely expressed by this word CAMPANILISMO, which means to be ( excessively )attached to one'S CAMPANILE(i.e : Churchtower, or Belltower) that is to say :to your town, to your village, to your area.
Your discussion about whether food is better in Bologna or in Florence was such a typical example of this Italian concept, and a such a typical example of an Italian discussion among people( even if they don't know eachother , e.g on the train) that I had to make this point.
So Brucein Tampa, if you've read my post, you'll have learned ( in-depth) the meaning of a very Italian word : CAMPANILISMO.
(The adjectve is CAMPANILISTA, infact you can say that sm is a very CAMPANILISTA person)
Your discussion about whether food is better in Bologna or in Florence was such a typical example of this Italian concept, and a such a typical example of an Italian discussion among people( even if they don't know eachother , e.g on the train) that I had to make this point.
So Brucein Tampa, if you've read my post, you'll have learned ( in-depth) the meaning of a very Italian word : CAMPANILISMO.
(The adjectve is CAMPANILISTA, infact you can say that sm is a very CAMPANILISTA person)
