Irene’s diary Irene’s diary On Monday I saw a nice, very nice man. I was very interested in you. So I decided to hint something to him. We started to have a little chat in the tube, so I asked him to go out with me. Next weekend we went to the lake outside the city, then ate something. We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant, food was good, and the service too. We took a typical Italian first dish: pasta with sea food. And the problem happened during first dish. While we was eating he asked me to kiss him, but my mouth was full of bread. When my mouth was empty, he was kissing another woman. I scream: “You are a playboy!”. He replied: “But she is my sister!”. I saw in the mirror and my face was completely red. While we were finishing to eat the bill arrived. He seemed a gentleman, therefore he paid all. After we went to a coffee shop, took a bottle of wine. In the meanwhile we were drinking, he asked me to kiss him, but my mouth was full of wine. When my mouth was empty, he was kissing another woman. I scream: “Is this your sister too?”. He replied: “No, I’m a playboy!”. It’s so hard to find a gentleman and not playboy man. Many men often seem very interested in you, but they are really interested in having any girlfriend. When I arrived at home, I saw some flowers on the table with a message. The message was: “I love you”. While I was smiling for the message, my neighbor entered in the home. “Irene!” she said “You are in my home! Did you drink wine again?”

letter of presentation Dear sirs, thank you for reading this letter of presentation in which I introduce myself, describe my characteristics and professional purposes. I earned bachelor and master degree in XXX with honors and within the expected time. During studies I dealt with X, Y and Z fields, I like to face different technical fields because I’m interested in several different professional environments. Since XXXX I have been working for big companies, has been allocated in important projects, leading edge activities and crises-handling teams achieving good results and awards. I’m able to quickly enter the work processes, to comprehend the domain with detailed accuracy and I’m used to be dynamic in front of new professional difficulties. Moreover I always established good working relations with colleagues, even of different countries and hierarchy levels. I’m looking for new professional experiences in which I can work abroad, learn new technical skills and improve my professional and languages competences. I would welcome the opportunity to utilize the knowledge and experience I have gained from studies and works for other companies. I am available for interview at any time by phone, Skype or in person. Sincerely, XXXXX

Road, way or street? What are the differences between the words road, way and street? I don't see big difference in Italian translation. Thanks very much!

Little town in Amalfi's Coast Little town in Amalfi's Coast Amalfi's Coast is one of most beautiful seaside of Italy. It is in south of Italy between Naples and Salerno. Here, the coast is very irregular, most part of coast is rock but there are also many little beach. Therefore the coast is various, you can find very precipitous part of coast and quite long beach, natural footpath near the see and little beach that are reachable only with boat. Also the seaside's towns are very different each another: Amalfi is the biggest one, has a quite large port, a large number of typical little roads and the most important cathedral (St. Andrew); Positano is the most known one thanks to its particular map and position; and other little towns as Maiori, Cetara, Praiano etc... I would like to tell about one of the smallest towns: it's Minori. Minori is between Maiori and Atrani. It is famous in history because in the second world war Americans disembark in order to free south of Italy. In Minori you can see all the coast until Atrani and you can see also Ravello over it. it is not so typical as Positano, but from Minori you can see very interesting views and very nice roads; In Minori there is a big ancient Roman villa, and as many of you know, Romans put their villas in very nice places. I love Minori because my youth is tied to it, I know every place, shop, footpath and beach near Minori and I would be glad to host, conduct and accompany you in Minori.

How should I pronounce "I still steal the steel"? Hi all, I'm not able to pronounce correctly the following sentence: "I still steal the steel" It seems a tongue-twister but it could be very useful to me in order to go deep in pronunciation. Could you help me to understand how I can correctly say it? And could you give me some tips about these types of pronunciations? You can also send me a vocal message with right pronunciation!

Wednesday evening, you cook! Wednesday evening, you cook! Yesterday evening I decided to cook a typical and popular Italian dish, south Italy peculiar dish. There's to say I'm neither a chef nor amateur and when I try to do something of little bit complicated, I face some difficulties. Nevertheless the perseverance are helping me to improve in cuisine. Dish I choose yesterday is not a normal or simple dish like meat or pasta. This dish is a mix or mixture of vegetables. Its name is "Ciambotta". The ingredients are: potatoes, zucchini, peppers and eggplant, and garlic, salt and cheese. The problem is all of those ingredients have cook time different from other ones, then it's important to care the cooking otherwise you should put all in the bin because of it is completely burned. For you it can be similar to "Ratatouille" but there is one difference; In Ratatouille you cook all ingredients separately, here I cook all together. I had to put in the frying pan, before ingredients which need more time to be cooked and after ones which cook quickly. First of all I put oil in the pan, when oil was hot, I put some little tomatoes (not sauce or juice) and potatoes. When potatoes are quite fried, I put peppers whic are quite hard, and finally zucchini and eggplant. Probably yesterday I put too much oil, but in Italy oil is fantastic then the dish became more and more tasty, but it is not advisable to do always in this manner. In south of Italy there are many typical heavy dishes: lasagna, parmiggiana, peperoni ripieni, cannelloni; but as few of you probably know, in Italy there are lots of typical dishes full of vegetables, very healthy and very tasty.

Weekend in Calabria Hi everybody, last weekend I went to Cetraro near Paola, in Calabria for a meeting with other guys. Cetraro is a little town on the seeside. See is fantastic, clean and clear because the coast is quite open, without creeks and so far from factory and big city. Unfortunately the town is very little, there are few shops and attractives and therefore town offers too little; but that can be in any cases a good opportunity. Other guy and me did some promenades in nature footpath, we could have seen lots of stars and enjoyed Cetraro's peace and silence.

My first Notebook entry Ciao a tutti! Hello everyone! Hello italki community! I'm Fabio an italian native guy, I come from Pompei near Neaples and Salerno. I'm here because I want to improve my skills in English. I´m not just a beginner but I need to improve very much. Getting into the details, I would like to improve my pronunciation and understanding, I think I have lack about these ones. Therefore, I need some friends to talk with and do practice. And obviously I'll be very willing to reciprocate your help in italian language. Moreover, I would like to test my skills in writing, for this reason I started off with writing my first notebook. I hope you will help me also in this matter, indeed my sentence are too much similar to italian ones, they have not english style, and they have too many little (and sometimes big) mistakes. So don´t hesitate: write me a message and help me!