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Roam to Rome!

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…

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 16:14

    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…

    Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 19:58

    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

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 18:38

    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!

    Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 19:48

    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…

    Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 17:18

    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!

    Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 20:14

    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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