First lectures day

I will try to do the rest tomorow. It's late and I am about to fall asleep now. :D 

Part 3; please read parts 1 and 2 first.

Afterwards, we had the "Professional practice" lecture with the Professor and a guy from the publishing industry that commission us the design of a Maltese poet's cover book.

So continuing on from part 2, I can commission you (that is, give you authority to work on, and promise to pay you for) carrying out my commission (that is, the set of instructions for what I want for my book cover).

What's happened here is that you are mixing the noun and the verb together.

- The guy can commission you to do something (verb) or

- The guy can give you a commission to do something (noun).

Also if it's the verb, it needs to be past tense (commissioned) because it happened in the past.

So if we go with the verb form, it should be:

"... and a guy from the publishing industry who commissioned us to design... etc"

Now, there are a couple of other problems with what it was that he commissioned you to design, though this is just a question of word order. It wouldn't be a "cover book" but rather a "cover for a book". Specifically, a book by a Maltese poet or, if you prefer, a Maltese poet's book. So the full thing would be:

"... and a guy from the publishing industry who commissioned us to design the cover for a Maltese poet's book."

During the brief, they used the word "pitch" quite a lot. They said something like "we will be giving you some pitch"

It depends on who was saying this. The professor may have said that, in the sense of instructing you of how to make a pitch (which I will explain below), but the publisher would not have said that. He may have said that he will ask for a pitch.

and also "the pitch must be handed over by the 16th of October". Actually, I'm a little confused about this word, it seems to have several meanings but they have nothing to do with the context it was used this morning. They used it in place of "the proposal" I think, but I can't find any reference between the two terms in the dictionary.

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Take a look at definition 6: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pitch

" A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something.
‘he put over a very strong sales pitch’ "

The expression is a metaphor. When you throw something (like a ball), you can also say that you pitch the ball. In this case you are not throwing a literal ball to the publisher, but rather your ideas. If the publisher "catches" this "ideas ball"; that is, if he likes your ideas and agrees to go ahead with the project, you have made a successful "pitch".

Part 2; please read part 1 first.

Then there is the action-oriented type, the guy person able to implement and shaping to shape a project and eventually carry it out.

1/ "Guy" is generally regarded as being a male, and of course it doesn't have to be. Even if there is no implication of gender in this, some people will still take offence. I know a tour guide in Italy who prefers to address his groups as "guys" because it's informal, friendly and easy, but he always makes sure to ask the group first to see whether anyone objects. It would be easier if he just used "ragazzi"... most tour groups can't speak any Italian anyway and wouldn't know the difference.

2/ You should not normally mix infinitives and gerunds; keep to the same form, otherwise it sounds a bit odd. In this case you can use either one; "the person responsible for implementing, shaping and carrying out..." (gerund form) or "the person able to implement, to shape", etc.(infinitive form. Actually you don't need the second "to" in this form; it's implied. I just put it in to emphasise the form).

Finally, in order to have a very successful team, you need to have a good team player that who makes the thorny task of working in a group as painless as possible.

As a rule of thumb, use "that" for things, but "who" for people.

This can sound like a mere stereotyped description of a team but actually, I find the subject matter pretty interesting and it should be taken more into account among professional teams. Afterwards, we had the "Professional practice" lecture with the Professor and a guy from the publishing industry that commission who commissioned us to design the cover of a Maltese poet's book. the design of a Maltese poet's cover book. 

OK, you went off the rails a little bit there, but this isn't day to day English so I can understand why.

1/ The "that" vs "who" issue is the one that I wrote about above.

2/ A "commission" can be either:

(a) A set of instructions describing something that needs to be done. This is a noun. OR

(b) Giving someone the power or authority to do something. (In this case, the "something" is the work that was described in my commission.) This is a verb; I am doing something when I commission you. And continued again...

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1/ "It" is a pronoun. However you don't need it because you have already used the noun "today". You only use pronouns instead of nouns, not with them.

2/ You could probably get away with "of" but in this kind of structure "for" is probably a lot more common. But regard it as more of a suggestion than an actual correction.

I found out that the Department of Digital Arts is pretty a quiet place. We are 10 people in total and as I expected most of the students are all aged around 20. 20-ish youths.

1/ 20 is pushing the definition of "youth" which is the period between childhood and adulthood. The age of majority is 18 in most Western countries so a 21 or 22 year old is outside of that.

2/ They can't be all aged around 20 if there is even one exception. Not that I'm suggesting anyone in particular, you understand!

The classrooms are quite modern, with colorful furniture and white walls. Walking among the Faculties you don't see many people around, a desert campus in the middle of the desert...it makes sense after all! In the morning we had a lecture called "Collaborative practice" where we overviewed the key concepts of collaborating within a team of professionals.

I would probably be inclined to say "where we were given an overview of" rather than "we overviewed". It's a subtle distinction, but really the professor was providing the overview, while you were the ones learning from it. The definition of "overview" as a verb is probably not narrow enough to prevent you from using it the way you have, but you're probably stretching it just a little bit.

According to the Professor, a successful team must be formed by different personality types. There must be the cerebral one, whose specialty speciality is solving difficult problems as well as contributing with creativity and imagination.

A specIALity is an area of expertise. A speciaLTY is, in North American English, a medical speciality. The distinction is starting to be lost a little bit; "specialty" has been misused to mean "speciality" so often that it is starting to take on the other word's meaning, especially in the medical field.

To be continued, as always.

First lectures day

[A "pitch" in this context is a proposal or a presentation, more or less. You think of an idea and present it to someone. It is often used in a business situation. The presentation is a "pitch." Used as a verb, you can pitch an idea, meaning present an idea. I hope this helps!!!] 

Sto bene, Denise, grazie! Dopo una pausa di qualche mese, sto cercando di ricominciare un orario normale per studiare l'italiano ---   scusa per gli errori! :)