A breve è previsto un incontro per una trattativa con una persona che non parla la Sua lingua. Le passa velocemente per la testa o Le suggeriscono l’appoggio di un interprete professionista e pensa: “Un interprete? A che mi serve se parlo inglese?!”. Se non stiamo parlando di una trattativa tra un madrelingua inglese e […]
Italians? There is an endless list of stereotypes about us, but you already knew that. We are supposed to constantly say “mamma”, “pizza”, “spaghetti”, words ending in -i, but what we are mostly famous for is for our body language or, more precisely, our beloved hands we apparently cannot stop moving! For once, I must […]
Thanks to the globalised world we live in, there are more and more multilingual conferences. Sometimes due to a tight budget, English is used as a lingua franca and those speakers not able to deliver their speech in English magically disappear from the programme. Yet, more professional and international conferences include multilingualism in the package. Unfortunately, both […]
En mi vida diaria, no paro de fijarme en pequeñas y grandes diferencias entre el español y el italiano, los idiomas que más asedian mi cerebro. Gracias a la fama (tanto de los italianos como de los españoles) que tenemos por nuestro dominio del inglés, con el tiempo he ido acumulando unos cuantos ejemplos llamativos […]
