Hello everybody!!!!!!!

How amazing was to talk with an American girl from Dickinson University during our class!!!!!
This is a very useful way to get competence in a foreign language; but most of all it is a very good way to speak more fluently during a conversation!
Our teacher Sarah is fulfilling our dreams!!!

Indeed in our last paper, the major part of our classmates criticised the fact that our lessons are mostly based on written excercises with a lot of theory.
Now we have the opportunity to learn but at the same time to enjoy speaking! That's just fantastic!

Form the first lesson up to now we created a wiki page in which we could discuss about different things: for example about stereotypes of Italy and America.
Like this we found out considerable things about American lifestyle and Italian one.

For example about the first one( American lifestyle)everybody agree in saying that life there is frenetic, busy, materialistic and so on..I think that this is a very negative way to imagine America because in my mind I always imagine America like a moderne country based on the progress ( indeed America is the number one in almost every domains...).

About Italian lifestyle,there are two points of view: Americans say about Italy of a relaxed country, family oriented. Italians say that Italy is a lazy country with no feel for working, cheating country, someone said caotic(!!!!!)....so very different points of view...just one talked about " cristianità" that, in my opinion is one of the most common point about Italy ,and the rest agree in saying that Italy is a very peaceful country!

About Italian women:

American said:beautiful, dark, houswife etc;
Italians said: indipendent,friendly,curvy, undervaluated etc
I don't understand why Americans said" olive skin and dark hair":) since in Italy exist blonde and red women as well:)anyway, this is a wrong stereotypes about Italy.

After this task, during my last lesson I could talk with an American Girl whose name is Ashlee.
We talked in English at the beginning, but then she asked us to talk in Italian as well in order to train her oral linguistic skill.
So we shifted from Italian into English every ten minutes.
It was a very useful experience for two reasons:
1: First of all we used the language in order not to forget it;
2: We found out a lot of things about American lifestyle and Ashlee had the possibility to satisfy her curiosity about Italy by asking us a lot of things about our cultural, the organization of our Universities ( our timetables, how we live, if in a campus or if we share a flat and more and more...). She made us understand the importance of Campus life there that is quite different from Italy.

In conclusion I have to say that I can't wait to have a converstation again with Ashlee or with someone else because I enjoyed too much doing it!!

See you!!!!!