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Roam to Rome!
http://candletocandle.blogspot.com
...just a passionate gal exchanging my California life for a fresh new life in Rome - and new lives tend to bring along heaps of new scents and flavors with a touch of culture shock, too :)
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On expanding your horizons…
I am Roam to Rome. So while every goal I have includes a long-term stay in Rome, I do roam – a lot. There’s something that I really, really want to do, but it turns out that I can’t unless I know French. Fluent French. Pront...
Riding out the storm…
Speaking of storms, there’s another type of storm pounding over cities, and it’s not the nice kind. I’ve met many (happy) foreigners who are spending a year abroad to “ride out the storm.” Meaning, back home their com...
120 channels -Italian TV & Radio for you
Once, when they asked David Letterman if he spoke any language other than English, he said, “I thought I spoke French. Then I went to France, and realized I didn’t.” To close this blog’s language learning series, for now, ...
Free Software for your 80/20!
The last post explained the 80/20 rule in learning languages, and how helpful songs are to help you gain fluency, since it trains your ear to recognize the foreign words you hear in conversations. Well, today I came across a new Adobe Air applicati...
The 80/20 Rule to Learning Languages…
In business productivity, you quickly come across the “80/20 rule,” which is also known as “Pareto’s Principle.” The concept, named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who discovered that 80% of Italy’s la...
Eye candy alert!
Let the week-end begin! As the summer rains continue, accompanied by rumbling thunderstorms, what better way to detox from our pending projects than with good Italian eye-candy music. Let’s see who can recognize the Italian scenery. Click ima...


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