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Italian-American. Started studying Italian in college in 1970. Vistied Italy twice that decade. I have a website dedicated to learning Italian in some amusing ways: http://www.italofilia.com You will need to link to other sites or have access to some of the resources listed. I hope to solicit feedback to improve translations, and eventually to ask for guest contributors. I enjoy some moderen Italian literature: Pirandello, Verga, Calvino, Moravia, Montale, Pavese - nothing current, really. Vocabulary and nuance keep me from reading much more widely, at least for now. I appreciate conversation on these writers, their themes, language and idioms - happy to share what I have learned specifically from them, and about Italian language and culture in general.
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    I shortcut it by saying "di solito" - i.e. usually in those cases where it virtually means the same thing.
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    Penso che "la" si usa come un segno di respetto per una persona, in questo caso, una donna. La Arendt, credo, riferisce a Hannah Arendt. E' un nome che ho visto, ma daverro non so in quale campo e' diventato famoso. Anche in Italia, mi ricordo, almeno a Brescia, le gente, quando parlano di una donna che non sia presente, dice "la Ilaria", "la Rosa", "la Maria" - e' un modo per esprimere che questa donna e' speciale, e unica.
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