House and home

The houses have changed a lot in the last few years. 
When I visit construction sites I see this change, mostly when somebody is restoring an old building.
In the past people wanted many rooms and many walls dividing them. An example is the distinction between kitchen and living room. They were once divided in two different spaces. Now many of us love open spaces even for optimizing the available area.
Another case is the bathroom sizes. A family with three or four children had a little bathroom of about 4 or 5 square meters for everyone. Now the same family wants two bathroom minimum and if the space allows, the parents want a private bathroom connected to their bedroom.
I have noticed, though, that the bedroom sizes were bigger then than now. Probably they were so because the people passed more time than now in that room and many children slept in the same room.
There were not any gardens or courtyards where a person could relax because the houses were attached to each other.
Personally I like the modern houses with great open spaces and minimal interiors, but I find it very interesting those situations where you have to rethink/reimagine an old house with new ideas and for another functionalities. In this case you must use much care to preserve the old style of the house.
Studies said that only fifty percent of the old houses have maintained their style of external parts and only 10 percent have preserved their interior style.
Fortunately more and more houses are protected by urbanistic specific laws.

Rosso-Corrections; Verde-Suggestions

My friend's problem

This morning, a friend of mine was nervous! He's searching for a job. He hasn't got doesn't have a particular title area of study and everything anything he will able to can find It will be fine for him!
Most companies are asking about his knowledge of English language.
He don't doesn't know one word of English and he don't doesn't want to learn it. (Ha bisgono di usare italki!)
While we were on the bus, he told me he was Italian and he hadn't didn't have to learn a foreign language to find work in his country.
I explained to him the critical job's (adjectives in front of nouns) situation in Italy and that he should learn to English for himself and for the trips that he would like to do in the future, but he won't change his mind! (Questa frase e' troppo lungo.  Forse scrivi "I explained to him the critical job's situation in Italy and that he should learn to English for himself.  Also, he can learn it for the trips that he would like to do in the future. Still, he won't change his mind!")
He's a clever man, but he is tired and angry with politicians.
In my opinion, the Italian schools teach few hours English to children and teenager. ("...schools do not teach enough hours..." would be better.)
It's a problem because many people grew up with a worse mentality than people of foreign countries.
Fortunately, all this is changing in the young minds and in those of their families.
They must do it because the Italian system is moving slowly yet still.

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Ben fatto!!! Hai provato dei frasi difficili!  The comma (,) is hard to use.  Remember, when you breathe and you are still talking, put in a comma.  A comma is used when there is a short pause in speaking.

English, this strange unknown..

I think English is a beautiful language but it is very difficult to learn unless (or "difficult to learn if you want to...") if you can speak it with others.
The construction of the phrases are is (the verb does not match the preopositional phrase "phrases", it matches "construction" which is singular) very different from Italian.

Ben fatto!  You tried to make really difficult sentences! :D

Hi everyone.

Hello boys and girls. I'm an italian boy and I'm writing from Turin, but my place of birth is a city near Naples(Caserta).
Now in Italy, it's a quarter to 2 am and I'm going to bed. 

I've just opened my mailbox and i have find (not?) found a new friend yet (non ho trovato un amico nuovo?). I hope to be helpful for to everyone who wants to learn Italian, the language of love.
Kisses from Italy.

Behind a picture

Sometimes, when I look at a particolar picture like this, I wonder why it has been taken or what kind of message it would communicate to us. Could the weather, in the picture, affect our opinion in order to consider it sad or happy?
About this picture I could make up a story like this...

It was a raining rainy evening (or, "it was raining one evening") when Mark, the guy who faces backwards (or "whose back is to us"), decided to go to his girlfriend's house to apologyse apologize to her about an argument that happened the day before. The matter of the discussion was about the doubt of Mark that Kate, his girfriend, (or "the topic of discussion was about whether Kate, his girlfriend,...") was still in love with her ex-boyfriend Martin because he had been told that somebody saw them together. Although she swore, crying, that she wouldn't have seen him anymore, Mark did not believe her.
Since Mark was really mad of at Kate and scared to loose lose her, he was willing to give her and their relationship a second change chance.
Despite the rain was being heavy and Mark was being completely wet (or "soaked"), he could not feel anything but his sospicious he was suspicious that, maybe, something wrong was going on...Indeed, when he had just arrived close the house, he saw a man who he thought to know knew...he it was Martin

Maybe Martin lived in the same neighboorhood? Or maybe Mark saw a man that looked like him?

Unfortunally Unfortunately my immagination does not allow me to go on, but I Iet will leave the end of the story to your fantasy...

Thank you very much for your help :)

Molto, molto bene!!!  Vorrei scrievere come questa in l'italiano!  

We use the comma "," a lot in English.  Anytime you take a breath while speaking, using a comma.