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I’ve found some useful resources to learn english “as second language”:

• EnglishAsSecondLanguage
• OwlAtPurdue
• BbcLearning
• LanguageExchange

The first, EnglishAsSecondLanguage, is a great resource: you can download a mp3 file once a day and listen to it; you’ve also a text and an explanation to have a complete understanding of that text.

The second, OwlAtPurdue, contains grammar rules, exercises and pratical instructions to write for different subjects and in different styles.

The third, BbcLearning, is simply a BBC powered site: professional, serious, exhaustive.

The fourth, LanguageExchange, is a community: you can practice your second language with a native speaker who is learning your language.

pm :: Mar.17.2007 :: english, resources :: No Comments »

Ho letto una bella intervista ad Ade Capone. Secondo l’intervistato non possono mancare nella biblioteca dell’appassionato di fumetti queste opere:

• Watchmen di Alan Moore
• Zagor racconta di Guido Nolitta
• Born Again di Frank Miller
• Il lungo addio di Marcheselli/Sclavi

Ho letto solo Il lungo addio: cercherò di recuperare.

pm :: Mar.10.2007 :: comics, italian :: 3 Comments »

Sure. Some people known Giovanni Allevi, but for me it is a new discover. Allevi is a composer and pianist, his style re-elaborates European classical tradition with jazz, new pop and contemporary tendencies. During his admission test at the G.Verdi Conservatoire in Milan, it seems that the examinators said “Or Allevi has copied or is the new Brahms”.

I suggest to listen two album: Joy and No concept.

You can  start to listen just a few second of Allevi’s music: have a look at this site.

pm :: Mar.01.2007 :: english, music :: No Comments »