The people. Actually, people is the most interesting thing of every city in dis beautiful and sad world. I live in Naples and, about the people who live here, they can be just amazing. I'm a little bit shy and introvert, but here many of my friends and acquaintances are very friendly and funny. 

Studying the grammar is important, I don't understand why so many people don't care about it. Of course, if you learn only the grammar like an obsessed, are not very smart. Listening and reading are, in my opinion, also extremely important. So, basically I think you have to integrate all these learning aspect to reach a very high level. You can also go abroad withouth knowing the grammar and learn a language just talking with native speakers. But when you learn something without really understanding how it works, you will probably forget it if you stop practising everyday. And that's not what we want, right? =)

I think that's part of English culture. Basically the Royal Family doesn't have many political powers I suppose, but of course can put some pressure and influence. On the other hand, and being extremely honest, I don't think that English workers with low salaries are really happy of this inequality, especially when the whole Europe is living an economic crisis. And I agree with them.

You will maybe be surprised that we, Italians and Russians, share a common swearing word, which is "су*а" (but we use it with a different meaning here). Honestly, I don't think those words are really useful for a beginner or even an intermediate learner. Most of the time it's just a question of curiosity, I guess. Also, as you may already know, it seems that Russians form a big slice of the gaming community, so some swearing words are well know more or less everywhere. Btw, when I asked to teach me these bad words, everyone was ready to do it =); sometimes I don't even need to ask to get this teaching!

England-Vardy.