letture inglesi

I'd like to start, if I may, with the story of the Paisley snail. On the evening of the 26th of August, 1928, May Donoghue took a train from Glasgow to the town of Paisley, seven miles east of the city, and there at the Wellmeadow Café, she had a Scots...

Esta Soler has guided Futures Without Violence to become one of the world’s most effective advocacy organizations in the effort to recognize and prevent gender-based violence. The agency she founded 30 years ago provides education, policy development...

Stephen Cave is a writer and philosopher who is obsessed with our obsession with immortality. In 2012 he published Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization , an inquiry into humanity's rather irrational resistance to the inevitability...

For ten years (1969-1979), Diana Nyad was known as the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. In 1979, she stroked the then-longest swim in history, making the 102.5-mile journey from the island of Bimini (Bahamas) to Florida. She also broke numerous...

Learn English as you read and listen to a weekly show with VOA American Short Stories by famous American authors. Adaptations are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. IM TEDDER: Now,...

Lungo l'arco di trent'anni Maffi percorre le strade di Londra, si immerge nelle pagine dei suoi scrittori, ascolta le voci dei suoi abitanti, così come le storie narrate dagli edifici, dai quartieri, dai musei, dalle stazioni, dal fiume e dai canali;...

Di chi sono i cigni di Hyde Park? Dove si può mangiare il miglior curry di Londra? Dove potete acquistare un’opera d’arte a prezzi modici o quel raro disco in vinile che stavate cercando da un po’? Dove si può ormeggiare lo yacht se si ha la fortuna di...

"Londra con i bambini" è la guida perfetta per programmare e godersi una vacanza con la famiglia, tra visite culturali e momenti di svago. Aneddoti curiosi, quiz, illustrazioni e attività per i piccoli nella rubrica L'angolo dei bambini. Suggerimenti...

Perché questa metropoli seduce più di trenta milioni di turisti ogni anno? Forse il Big Ben, la St Paul's Cathedral o la Westminster Abbey; musei come la National Gallery, la Courtauld Gallery e la Tate Modern; le piazze e i giardini, dai Royal Botanic...

Nell'ottobre del 1928 Virginia Woolf fu invitata a tenere due conferenze sul tema Le donne e il romanzo. È l'occasione per elaborare in maniera sistematica le sue molte riflessioni su universo femminile e creatività letteraria. Risultato è questo straordinario...

Having leaked the disturbing details in the chapter on intelectual property rights in the secret proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) last year, WikiLeaks released the TPP's environment chapter on January 15. As well as the draft text of the chapter,...

With her 18th Oscar nomination, Meryl Streep has hit the record books - but it hasn't come easy. The actress tells Shereen Low why playing a bitter cancer-stricken sufferer in August: Osage County was one of her most challenging roles to date "Women aren't...

Espressioni, proverbi e modi di dire in inglese ( alcuni di questi sono datati, altri sono ancora oggi usati) It takes two to tango Bisogna essere in due per ballare il tango Usato per dire che per far funzionare qualcosa entrambe le parti devono darsi...

"I've finished the Pimsleur Spanish I course and will be starting on Pimsleur Spanish II. It's working out very well. In fact, it's the best language course I've encountered. Thanks very much!" --D. Dillon "I LOVED Pimsleur's Spanish I. I am learning...

The Principle of Anticipation requires you to "anticipate" a correct answer. Practically, what this means is that you must think about the situation and retrieve the answer from your own memory before it is confirmed in the lesson. It works as follows:...

Graduated Interval Recall is a complex name for a very simple theory about memory. No aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than memory, yet before Dr. Pimsleur’s work, no one had explored more effective ways for building language memory....

Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world’s leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory...