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Hello from Italy!

Hello everybody!

My name's Gaetano and I'm from Italy. I am 19 years old and so I spend lot of time at school. I would like to discuss in this forum about our systems of education because I believe that the Italian one is really, really unprofitable.

I found this forum because I would like to exercise my English so if you want to give me some links to forums about law, economy or international politics will be really kind of you!
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Hello there Smile

What are Italian schools like?

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nice to meet you
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(04-03-2014 11:44 PM)SoulRiser Wrote:  What are Italian schools like?

What do you do for fun?

Italian schools are not so good. We rarely do some practise (I am studying to become an accountant and next year I'll study law) and so we cannot start to work on our own immediately. We need someone who explain us what we have to do at the beginning (for example I have never seen any software used by the accountants and nowadays everything is done by this softwares).

Oh, something strange for you, perhaps: the students stay in their own classes and the teachers move to a class to another.



For fun? Sometimes I study law, economics and computer programming. But I am interesting in politics too. I love playing basketball and I watch on TV each kind of sport!
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Not very strange to me, but that's just because I'm familiar with the German school system.

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Actually they did that in the school I went for the majority of 3rd grade, so it doesn't seem that weird.

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is the pizza there as good as it should be

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Hello! Welcome to the forums!

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(04-04-2014 10:21 PM)Stadium Wrote:  is the pizza there as good as it should be

Is this a question? If so... Yes. But I usually buy pizza in an Indian shop (where they sell also kebab). The most important thing is to follow the Italian rules and not to modify them too much.
Sometimes I watch on tv man vs food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_v._Food and I see that pasta and pizza are not the same in Italy. There are a lot of sauces and a lot of mixed food. That's why Italian pizzas and pasta are better than abroad, I think.
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Man vs. Food isn't really a good representation of Italian style foods in America

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(03-20-2013 05:08 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote:  Stand up with pride and say "No! I will not be a McDonalds employee. I WILL BE A GARBAGE MAN!"

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I see. I hope that!
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Welcome Gae1995!

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Hello. Hhheeeeelllllloooooo.

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(04-07-2014 03:57 AM)Lollipopgirl Wrote:  Welcome Gae1995!

Do you like video games?

Of course! But I have a ps2, not the latest console Wink
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What games do you play on PS2?

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