The main goal of the Department of German Studies and Italian Studies at Smith College is to offer a program of study that provides opportunities for students to acquire both proficiency in Italian ...

Editor’s Note: Silvia Marchetti is a Rome-based freelance reporter and writer. She covers finance, economics, travel and culture for a wide range of media. Silvia has a master degree in journalism, ...

TRENTON, NJ – Not counting anyone who watched The Sopranos, or far-removed descendents of Italian immigrants in New Jersey whose extensive knowledge of the ...

Hear Miles Hoffman's examples of Italian musical terms in action. Even when it isn't sung, the Italian language sounds like music, which is part of why Italian words are used to tell musicians how to ...

Did you know that the language of Dante Alighieri is the most studied in the world after English, French, and Spanish? It surpasses Chinese, Japanese, and German! La bella lingua has lots of ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...