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I have a growing fascination for all things Italian, starting from the language, the culture, fashion, food, art, and natural beauty. Making a few visits to select destinations is on the top of my travel to-do list.

In this blog I will try to write in my halting, error-ridden Italian about things that affect me on a daily basis, and maybe a little about my struggles on learning this butter-smooth, yet somewhat grammatically whimsical language.

All that would change, I am sure, once I start visiting Italy; at which point I would commence madly posting my travellogues!

Italian rhymes, anyone?

Posted 11-07-2007 at 05:17 AM by bubbles (Italian Musings)

Per imparare una lingua mi sembra una buona idea di conoscere le filastrocche che i bambini del questo paese imaparano a scuola:

La seguente e’ una filastrocca
Che i bambini Italiani imaparano a scuola
Per ricordare i colori della bandiera Italiana.
Con il rosso dei tramonti Siciliani
Con il bianco delle nevi delle Alpi
Con il verde delle valle di Toscana
Noi faremo la bandiera Italiana.

Se qualcuno sa altre filastrocche puo...

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Modi di dire in Inglese e Italiano

Posted 10-03-2007 at 06:52 AM by bubbles (Italian Musings)

I have been coming across Italian sayings while trying to read Italian in the past few weeks, and thought maybe I should draw up a list of the ones I have stumbled across so far:

Chi va con lo zoppo impara a zoppicare
He that dwells next door to a cripple will learn to halt

Meglio tardi che mai
Better late than never

Piove sempre sul bagnato
It never rains but it pours

Meglio un uovo oggi che una gallina domani

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La luna gialla

Posted 09-20-2007 at 12:24 PM by bubbles (Italian Musings)

Sono a Hong Kong per la questa settimana.

Hong kong e' pieno di inquinamento, e nel pomerriggio il sole sembra come una luna gialla, e' molto strano da vedere. La gente è sempre occupata, e corre qui e la' tutto il giorno.

Sono quasi tutti cinesi qui, non ci sono tanti caucasici come a Singapore.
Ho comprato tanti vestiti, perche' sono piu' economici di Singapore, e molto alla moda. Ho comprato anche un paio di belle scarpe.

Non sono andata

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When the earth shook beneath my feet during my Italian lessons

Posted 09-12-2007 at 04:54 PM by bubbles (Italian Musings)
Updated 09-12-2007 at 04:56 PM by bubbles

This evening as I was settling down to my Italian lessons after a long day, I started feeling dizzy, very dizzy. When I stood up, I could not keep my head on straight, it kept tilting to one side.

As I looked around, the doors were swinging, my chair was rolling back and forth on its wheels,the water inside the bottle was shaking, keyrings were swinging on hooks...I wasnt sure what was going on

I pulled on a t-shirt, grabbed my keys and rushed out...as I went...

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Do Italians throw things out of their window?

Posted 09-06-2007 at 05:34 PM by bubbles (Italian Musings)
Updated 11-11-2007 at 10:32 AM by bubbles

Ho sentito dire che molti Italiani per celebrare l’inizio del nuovo anno buttano oggetti vecchi fuori dalla finestra la notte di Capodanno. Non lo so che sia vero o no....or whether Italians do this at all.

I had never expected the almost clinically clean Singaporeans would throw things out of their window, but my neighbors upstairs do it on a regular basis.