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The Bilingual U.S. – Sicilian Tampa, Florida
Ybor City Italian Club Next year Florida will celebrate the half a millennium of Spanish language and culture which have flourished in the state since its discovery by explorer Juan Ponce de Leon....
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Know Your Vowels
Did you know that the English language has at least 15 vowels? The pure vowels in English, technically known as monophthongs (from the Greek mónos “single” and phthóngos “sound”) are: /iː/, /ı/, /ε/,...
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Columbus’ Seemingly Impossible Mission — All In A Foreign Language
All across the nation, Americans observed Columbus Day – some with a patriotic commemoration of the audacious roots of our nation, others with biting criticism of the damage wrought in the new world by...
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Napoleon: The Foreigner
Last week we looked at the little-discussed fact that Christopher Columbus was a successful navigator as much of foreign languages as of the uncharted expanses of the Atlantic. Today we’re going to...
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What Gender Is The Sea?
What gender is the sea? In the masterful novel The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway doesn’t shy away from addressing how the Spanish language spoken by his fictional creations might mean that they...
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Gender in the Romance Languages
Last week we saw how Ernest Hemingway addressed the interpretative possibilities of linguistic gender in his seminal novel The Old Man and the Sea. As Hemingway showed, identifying the gender of nouns...
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Linguistic Gender Crossing
Last week we discussed the rhetorical figure of chiasmus in detail; however, seeing as the somewhat complicated-sounding term means nothing more than a “crossing” (like the shape of the Greek letter...
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