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Unmasking the Music: Why Italian is the Language of Music

“L’italiano è la lingua della musica!” You can probably figure out at least two of those words (even if you have never tried to learn Italian) and come up with a basic understanding of what the sentence means: Italian is the language of music. You could make that out because most English words derive from Latin, and of all the modern Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin. Read More >>

Language in Literature: Phillip Kerr’s Brunetti Mysteries

Robert Paris Riger

For me the next best thing to travel is reading books set in other countries, particularly books like Kerr’s where the way the language is spoken is...