Italian Learner Gifts

I'm biking through Tuscany, learning Italian this summer. Wow! I'm off to drama camp. How about you, Twig? I haven't decided which summer enrichment program to choose! Working for my dad or babysitting the Bartram kids. Ahh! The college fund enrichment program.

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

Leaning Wine Bottle of Pisa

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

'Pepperoni: Muse of Pizza'

With the aid of a tactical dictionary, and was finally able to make sense of what the salesman was saying.

Statue is moved to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa.

Fully aware of the dangerous romance of Venice's canals and bridges, Gwendolyn approached this moment with a degree of caution.

'When they came up with a 'do your homework' app, then I'll know technology can really make life better.'

"...L...uh, M...uh Q...how come there are so many darn letters in the alphabet anyway?"

How's your nephew doing in human school this year? Great! He has a calculator and spell checker like last year, and this fall new features have been added. With new translation software he can take language classes now, and for social studies he just clicks "history." Bonjour! I'm so proud! He has the school's highest G.P.A.! Other students can't copy off him anymore because he started using encrypted code. His favorite upgrade is the enhanced ability to process school lunches. He's bee

'Remind me to never again ask him what he learned in school.'

'I'm sorry Timmy, but if I keep going for help, you'll never learn to take care of yourself,'

Petrarch

Italy in Three Days."We're doing Assisi tomorrow. Myra wants to shop red leather jeans."

"You got a D in English and an E in French, but Swedish isn't a problem?!"

"Baldo, Gracie...you need to learn more Spanish. For the rest of the week, I'm going to speak nothing but Spanish, and Tia Carmen will act as your interpreter, OK? Tienen tarea?"

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

'Would it make a difference if I told you I was listening to book on audio?'

"I have never ever heard Dante rhymed quite like that with ricochet before. Bravo Professor Firenze, you have moved our hearts!"

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

Illegal Immigrants

'Where's the mouse for this thing?'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

"I want to make a wish, but the problem is that this genie apparently does not speak English."

'My French is not so good.'

"How can a student who can't speak English or Gobbledegook expect to pass?"

Welcome to Kindergarten. It's a list of school supplies -- I need pencils, a ruler, crayons and a laptop!

'Apparently, there's some sort of language barrier for me when money talks.'

'He's so clever he's learning a second language!'

'I invested in a completely new economic system for the country, but the instructions are in japanese.'