Lottie Lomme
Lotje Lomme studied History in Bologna and Italian and didactics in Utrecht. She has been teaching Italian for 15 years, and has provided several online training courses for This is Italian and gives private lessons Italian and NT2 for Italians. Online and in person in Schoonhoven. She also baked Italian cakes for a Dutch café, interpreted for an Italian artist, translated poems by Alda Merini, made fresh lasagna for the Thuisgekookt Foundation, and guided Italian tourists through Keukenhof.
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in BooksA short interview with the author of Ballad of the Forest, Maddalena Vaglio Tanet
I read this beautiful book, about a teacher in Northern Italy who seeks solitude in the forest to adjust her worldview after something terrible happens to her, and how she finds her way back to the 'ordinary' world. I found it a beautiful, accessible story. The author lives in the Netherlands and I had the opportunity to meet with her in […] More
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10 Contemporary Italian Feminists You Should Know
March 8th is International Women's Day again, a great opportunity to highlight 10 strong, contemporary Italian women. Disclaimer: I'm a book enthusiast, so that's somewhat reflected in my selection. The feminists are organized by birth year, so the more experienced authors go first. 1. Silvia Federici […] More
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Funny, cute and special Italian names
Recently I was talking to a student about spring. I wanted to tell them that we have great tits in a nesting box in our garden. I knew that a little tit is called cincia in Italian, but I had to look up the word great tit. It turned out to be cinciallegra: a cheerful little tit. My day was immediately good. Allegra means cheerful. […] More
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How to join an Italian conversation?
I have many students at A1 level. They do not have an extensive vocabulary yet, but at some point in their lives they will have to participate in Italian conversations to make the transition to A2 level. Often their passive knowledge is greater than their active knowledge. They understand what is being said reasonably well, but react in a timely manner in […] More
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Will the study of Italian disappear from Dutch universities?
'The limits of my language are the limits of my world,' said Wittgenstein (an Austrian-British philosopher of language from the 19th century, ed.). The Italian faculty has a huge mountain of knowledge about who 'the (Italian) other' is. Historical, literary, musical, culinary, political and of course linguistic. With the government's cuts to university education, it seems […] More
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