Seventeen Years a Florentine
It is customary to learn the idiomatic expressions of a language
last. After you are already dreaming in the language, they are typically
the icing on the linguistic cake. But in Florence, Italy, these colorful,
figurative phrases seem exceptionally important details to maintain the
palpability of life in this city. To commiserate with Florentines daily,
I had to learn these first. This romance and reality is the actuality of
living in Italy.
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