#560 | What Makes An Italian?

Charles Dickens made the Victorian workhouse famous, but the reality behind Oliver Twist was even worse than fiction. This episode tells how workhouses treated Britain’s poorest people, and how pensions and the welfare state finally replaced them. Oliver Twist and the image of hu ...  Show more

He wears a red hat, carries a stick, and laughs as he beats almost everyone he meets. This episode tells the odd, violent story of Punch and Judy, the puppet show that began in Italy and became a British seaside symbol. It looks at how Mr Punch survived for over 300 years, and wh ...  Show more

Ho chiesto ad amici e colleghi che cosa significhi per loro essere italiani. Mi hanno risposto con interventi intelligenti, che parlano di storia, italianità, campanilismo e passaparola. Newsletter: https://onlineitalianclasses.com/learn-italian-for-free-with-our-newsletters/Tran ...  Show more

Discussing the underlying thread of decisions you can make in order to learn Italian. 

This discussion delves into the intricacies of acquiring Italian citizenship through 1948 cases with a spotlight on scenarios involving ancestors who naturalized in foreign countries while their descendants were minors. The conversation touches upon the Italian legal framework an ...  Show more

In Italian, the terms “città”, “paese”, and “villaggio” each refer to settlements of varying sizes and characteristics, from large, urban “città” to rural “villaggio”.

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