Italy With No Italian
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Actually, I found speaking Spanish when I couldn't think of the Italian worked pretty well. My accent in both languages is so terrible they probably figured I was trying to speak Italian anyway. But the words are so similar you can "crosstalk"--I would speak in Spanish, the person would answer in Italian and we would both understand each other enough.
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cmt I loved the part about the Alzheimer's. I've always had a tendencey to write convoluted things no one understood! In the b&b where we stayed near Carcassone the owner and I spoke a mixture of French, Spanish and English. My husband was a bit bug-eyed at it.
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Hopingtotravel, here's an article about the Alzheimers study: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...nces&hl=en
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Further explanation of what "agriturismo" is (definitely not the same as a "gite": http://www.turismoverde.it/cosagri.htm
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