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Hi, this is my first time writing on this blog. I'm a Broadcast Assistant on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English website.

I thought I'd write about Advent, the time of preparation for Christmas in the Christian Church.

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Hello everybody!

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Hello to everyone!
Here I am with a new blog a little bit sad because it could be the last one.
Before to give my regards to all, today I'd like to speak about the Italian food.
Well I think that our food is one of the best things we have.

Very often when I was speaking with some foreign friends from all over the world, they had already ate "spaghetti" and "pizza". Yes, they are really good and in here (because if you eat them in other countries, are quite different) you can find them in different ways.

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Hello everybody, here I am with another blog about one of the most important Italian cities like Venice.

If you need a rest or if you want to see some really interesting Museums, Churches, Islands like Burano - Murano and Torcello, you can't miss this wonderful city, where you can go eround walking or by boat because there aren't roads and obvously no cars but just little bridges. I went to Venice two month ago with a nice weather.

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Hello to everybody!

First off all I'd like to thank you the readers of my blogs for their good words and compliments. This one is a great adventure for me. I'd also like to send a message to everyone, sometimes when I have enough time I can do it and sometimes not.

As I already told at the biginning we are a great family and we are all here for the same reason (to learn or to improve our English).

So, this is my topic: Why is so important to learn English for me?
Being honest my reply could be: I don't know!

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Hello everybody!
Here I am with my third blog.

Today I'd like to speak a little bit about my countryside, in particoular about mountains of "Valle Formazza".

Very often I love to go there in Summer for a great walks in the woods and in Winter too.
In a better season it's really nice to find after some hour walk really beautiful natural Likes like this one, with suggestive coulors and really peaceful.

Walking through the paths is really nice to find some squirrels who are waiting for something to eat than if you have a look in the sky in a total silence some hang gliders lands slowly on the grass.

It's also easy to find good mushrooms, blueberries, delicious fresh milk, yoghurt and of course cheese.

So, what should I have more?

Go to work like everyone every day and go to the mountains as soon as I can to have a rest seams me a pretty nice combination to regenerate our bodies and our minds.
There aren't just bad things to see, think and live but it's important to be a little bit positive always and for everything.

That's life!

Best regards to all!

Vito

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First of all I'd like to thank all my "friends" for their good words. It's important to me don't disappoint the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and all the readers.

This time I'd like to speak a little bit about my trip in Rome (dedicated to Hope who comes from there and to all those who follow me).

My latest time for visiting Rome was four years ago, when I went there to show some really interesting places to my children. There where a lot of Monuments and interesting sights to see but one in particoular I'm sure to not forget in my life: the wonderful "fontana di Trevi" because was almost incredible and to be there almost surreal, so this was the reason because before to return at home we had staied to see it twice.

The "Colosseo", "Musei Vaticani", "Basilica di S.Pietro", "Panteon", "Galleria Borghese", "Piazza di Spagna" and "Piazza Navona" were just some others sites, not less important of course!

With a red bus like the English's ones (and others colours as the particoular site of the city you would like to see) is possible to go eround the city taking wonderful pictures. This one was a very interesting service, not very expensive and helpful to not spend a lot of time.

In the evening was nice go to "Trastevere" to find some good restaurants with a really friendly people, to eat some delicious dishes like "Spaghetti all'amatriciana". Trastevere is a particoular site of the city aslways connected by public transport, not very distant from the city centre and where everything it's always less expensive but really nice and sudgestive.

I'm sure to return there for my next trip to the Capital.

Hello to everyone and thank you so much giving me this opportunity.

I really hope to not have problems to explain what I have in my mind and please excuse me for all the mistakes that I'm sure there will be in my written.

For my first blog let me introduce myself explaining the reason because I'm here.
My name is Vito Stelfi, I was born in Italy where I live whith all my family.
I work as accountant in a small factory near here.
I'm forty-four years old, I'm married and I have two lovely children. They go to the secondary level school and to the primary school.

We live in the north Italy in a little country near a beautiful like name's Lake Maggiore.

Just one year ago I went to an English course in the evening, after work, twice a week for six months. This course was really helpful for me but anway I know my limits and I'm sure to still have a lot of things to learn. Unfortunately I can't go to the evening class this year because it's quiet distant from my country and to go there, there are almost twenty kilometers by car........

Like everyone we always have a lot of others things to do more important for the family so this is the reason because I have to practise online.

In this site I found a lot of interesting things to read and to listen but sometimes they are quiet difficult for me because I'm at the beginning.

In some sites around the web it's difficult to find mother tongue English people who are interestend to learn Italian so it's difficult too to have a tandem exercise.

I don't know why, but there are a lot of people who want to learn English and less people who want to learn Italian. Very often there are some foreign friends to speak English with, but not from England but from all over the world, and sometimes this is better, because they can understand my spoken (also with some mistakes) but without problems.

Anyway I think to have found a great opportunity in this site, whit a lot of interesting materials and where I'll be able to have a chat with people from all over the world.

Best regards to all for now
Vito