A few days ago I was watching a guy picking wilberries, he was waist deep in the thorny bushes all sweaty under the scorching sun. He didn’t mind getting all scratched and sunburnt. I spoke to him about the quality of the berries and he admitted having picked only dry […]
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Multilingualism series 3 by Anthony Fornaro Lately I have been wondering if my language skills are slowly and irremediably shrinking. Am I turning goofy? No, I am not. I am just multilingual. Apparently, the ability to speak more than one language might, somehow, affect an individual’s cognitive capacity and result […]
Multiligualism series 2 By Anthony Fornaro To interpret – to decide what the intended meaning of something is. This is quite a wide explanation for a very deep and pluri-dimensional meaning concept such as interpreting, especially when this come to be contextualised in a Multilanguage environment. In fact, an interpreter it is not only a […]
Multilingualism series 1 By Anthony Fornaro “You can find that in aisle 12, just after the south-eastern languages sector” imagine hearing this when asking to a supermarket clerk where to find your favourite soda. This is, of course, very unlikely to happen in real life but gives the idea of how fast […]
By Anthony Fornaro “Leave to get lost,Leave to find oneself. The kindest thing you could,Is leave. Leave to come back.” -AJF I found myself writing this poem on a train, at the start of what turned out to be the journey of my life. By all means! Have you ever […]
Ultradian , Circadian and Infradian rhythm I recently read about chronobiology, not rocket science don’t worry.I want to talk about it because it is strictly connected to learning. Chronobiology, as the word says, is about time and life. More specifically about life cycles and repetition of rhythms in our lives.To […]
by Anthony Fornaro No one ever taught me how to speak English (not even in school!) nor that this language itself is a tangle of other languages, pronunciations, and varieties. In the past ten years of my life, I have been exposed to the true English language. I spent the […]
By Anthony Fornaro English as a Foreign Language has been acquiring quite the importance in the Linguistics world throughout the past 20 years. I know that you might be wondering why I have decided to talk about Italian learners in the specific if this is a worldwide discussion. The primary reason […]
HOW TO NAIL THE IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING EXAM (AND NOT DIE OF BOREDOM IN THE PROCESS) By Charlotte Barrett Learning a language is fun, it’s a window into another culture, another world. It’s the possibility to extend your horizons, to communicate with new people, to avoid waiting the delayed release […]
For many students this is a three-headed Hydra, a monster they are terrified of.To make them able to tame such a hideous creature I made this video. Watch it and let me know what you think.It is my first attempt at video making so my apologies for the poor quality […]