Yes, here it is: another Monday blog! Three weeks have passed already since I published the last one. I did start putting something on paper last weekend, but then the sun took hold of me. And that’s how a new week dawned in which it was time for five full nights of Sanremo, the historic …
Have you ever introduced yourself as an independent washing machine at a fairly important first meeting? You guessed it, I did. Oh, all those delightful moments when you – so blissfully unaware of any wrongdoing – make huge language blunders. It’s all part of learning a new language and enthusiastically putting it into practice too. …
I have a pretty weak spot for accents. Such an unmistakable accent that makes someone more accessible. More sincere. More authentic. The Neapolitan sizzling S, the way the Northern Italians almost pronounce the E as the Dutch do, or how the Romans seem to ‘eat’ certain vowels making their language very thick when endlessly stretching out words. “Annnaaamo” instead …