articoli in lingua inglese

Polyglot savant

Savants are typically individuals with serious mental disabilities who demonstrate profound and prodigious capacities and/or abilities far in...

 26 juin 2013
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Internet Polyglot: Free Language Lessons Online

Internet Polyglot is dedicated to helping our members learn foreign languages by providing them a way to memorize words and their meanings. This...

 25 juin 2013
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European Union : The upside of the crisis

In this climate of recession, EU member states have managed to find common ground on longstanding divisive issues: overfishing, asylum rights...

 17 juin 2013
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" RK2928 9 inch Tablet PC with Android 4.1 ". Lo trovate da noi: € 56

HighLights: CPU: Rockchip RK2928 Cortex A9 1GHz OS: Google Android 4.1.1 RAM: 512MB DDR3 ROM: 8GB Internal storage capacity: 5.78GB External...

 11 juin 2013
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Sweden's riots: Is the integration of immigrants failing?

HUNDREDS of cars set on fire, a school in flames and angry youths hurling stones at the police. This is not the banlieue in France but suburbs...

 11 juin 2013
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Resentment against Erdogan explodes

IT ALL began with a grove of sycamores. For months a tight band of environmentalists had been protesting against a government-backed project...

 11 juin 2013
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Schengen area: New frontiers

After months of deadlock, the member states and the European Parliament have agreed on new rules facilitating the establishment of internal borders...

 11 juin 2013
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The Immersion Effect: The Linguistic Benefits of Teaching Abroad

Today’s article comes from Christina Chandler, a current graduate student and former English teacher. Not only does she take the view that one...

 9 juin 2013
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Geniuses, Hard Work, and Language Learning

Several weeks ago when different news stations started reporting on Timothy Doner, a 16-year-old New Yorker who speaks 23 languages, I came across...

 8 juin 2013
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Learn a new language: Funny phrases and words

Layogenic is the Tagalog, Philippines way of telling someone that they only look good from afar, while the Japanese use the term bakku-shan to...

 7 juin 2013
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How to become fluent in 10 languages

Twenty year old Oxford University undergraduate, Alex Rawlings, is currently the most multi lingual student in the UK. Alex can speak 11 languages:...

 7 juin 2013
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Ioannis Ikonomou: Learning a Second Language….. and a Third….. and a Fourth…..

Do you know who Ioannis Ikonomou is? I didn’t either – that is, until I ran across an article about one of the smartest living human beings....

 7 juin 2013
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Turkey: Erdoğan besieged in his ivory tower

Why have the demonstrations against an urban planning project in Istanbul turned into protests against the power of the Prime Minister? Because...

 5 juin 2013
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Germany: The frontiers of immigration policy

Italy is accused of having offered money to migrants from Africa to encourage them to move on to Germany. A scandal? No, writes Die Zeit: just...

 4 juin 2013
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How my city went under

Son of a Swede and a Dane, journalist Viggo Cavling grew up in one of the suburbs hit by the recent violence. He tells the story of how the buildings...

 3 juin 2013
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Tender is the Night - di F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night (1934) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel. The story, primarily about human deterioration, the disintegration...

 29 mai 2013
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The Great Gatsby - di F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in 1925, it is often referred to as "The Great American Novel,"...

 28 mai 2013
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Europe needs its Martin Luther

The EU is becoming a corrupt church where Germany rules by a dogmatic economic orthodoxy. Politics must take back control with a protestant schism...

 20 mai 2013
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The European project is a total failure

Constructed on economic, political and geopolitical criteria, the EU must be judged by the same criteria. And the verdict of the British historian...

 15 mai 2013
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Genetics: Europeans, we’re all kissing cousins

Two American researchers recently completed a study of genes from a sample of 40 populations from the European continent. Their conclusion: all...

 15 mai 2013
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‘EU Readies Solar Tariffs In China Fight’

The European Union is planning to impose import taxes on Chinese-made solar panel equipment in a move which is likely to trigger “one of the...

 9 mai 2013
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‘200 years of Kierkegaard, philosopher of freedom’

Across the world, celebrations have been planned to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) on...

 9 mai 2013
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Renewal through architecture

Completed just as the financial bubble burst, the Harpa concert hall symbolises the recovery of Iceland following years of gloom. Just one of...

 9 mai 2013
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Democracy: Dare to be a little more Swiss!

The EU would do well to take on a little more direct democracy. Switzerland’s example shows that more citizen involvement in deciding on and...

 3 mai 2013
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Reinforce the European Parliament, not the Commission

With what will likely be the automatic appointment of the next European Commission President, the result of May 2014 European elections should...

 3 mai 2013
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A new life for your old age

Enjoying your retirement under a tropical sun on the other side of the world is no longer the preserve only of western Europe’s wealthy elite....

 11 avril 2013
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Petition against Romanians and Bulgarians is creating a buzz

”More than 120,000 Britons have signed an online petition asking Prime Minister David Cameron to do something to prevent a mass immigration of...

 18 mars 2013
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Slovakia: A sigh for Košice

Košice this year shares with Marseille the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC). An acronym that Slovaks shorten to "Ehmk" and which sounds...

 17 février 2013
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Germany: Boomtime for Hitler

Released in the autumn of 2012, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power, "Er ist wieder da" ("He's Back") by German writer...

 16 février 2013
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Contemporary art: Paintbrush factory brightens Cluj-Napoca

Located in a former factory in Cluj, the Transylvanian capital, a contemporary art centre managed by several galleries and artists' collectives...

 15 février 2013
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