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League party leader Matteo Salvini (R) signs a campaign poster reading "I believe in it and I'll put my signature on it". (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP) Italian political goings-on are famously ...

In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants will almost certainly speak at least some English. But venture to smaller towns ...

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 34, No. 2, High-Level L2 Acquisition, Learning, and Use (June 2012), pp. 269-290 (22 pages) This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for ...

Jhumpa Lahiri lived with her family in Rome in 2012. Though she had studied Italian for 20 years, as part of her "full immersion" into the Italian language, she now kept a kind of philological ...