esempio di lettera in inglese per descrivere brevemente l'italia
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Letter about Italy and the Italian people Dear _________, How
are you? Here all is ok. In your last letter, you have asked
me to tell you something about Italy and the Italian
people...well, here I am! First of all, you have to know that I
love Italy: I think Italy is one of the best countries to live in,
and here I will tell you why. In my Country, there are a lot of
different places: in the North, there are the Alps, where you can
go to ski if you like it (I hate skiing!) or to have a nice time
relaxing, walking in the nature and visiting a lot of small and
nice villages lost in the valleys. Then, going southward (=verso
sud), you arrived in the plain of the Po (=pianura padana), where
the climate is worse than in the other parts of Italy, because of
the fog; here, there are a lot of farms and rice-field. The Centre
of Italy is very various: there are some seaside resort (=luoghi di
villeggiatura balneare) like Liguria, where I live, the Riviera
Romagnola, the Isle of Elba, etc but also the Apennine: in Italian,
its name means little Alps, but sometimes they are not very low!
The South and the two major isles Sicily and Sardinia are very
popular because of the white-sand beaches and the clean sea.
From a tourist point of view, if you wanted to have a
sight-seeing tour in Italy, you should visited an infinitude of
cities, because Italy have perhaps the greatest number of
historical places in the world. Some examples? Venice, the city on
the canals; Genoa, with the biggest aquarium of Europe; Florence,
Dantes fatherland (=patria) and Rome, that doesnt need other
explanation; but also Milan, Turin, Naples and then Pompei,
Caserta, Verona, Ravenna...
In order to describe the Italian people, I must distinguish
different groups: the dwellers of Genoa are popular because of
their stinginess (=taccagneria), while the inhabitants of the
Riviera Romagnola are very nice and friendly; the dwellers of Milan
have usually a snobbish attitude while we say that the inhabitants
of Naples are guappi, that means cunning (=scaltro, anche se guappo
vuol dire + precisamente furbastro)...however, these are
commonplace!
Well...are you satisfied? And what about you? Describe me your
country and the people they live in!
