England vs Italy: Comparing Life and Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545001226)

Alex Dunitz was born in Milan in 1976, where he was educated both in the British private and in the Italian state school systems. He moved to Britain in 1999. Relying on his knowledge of both English and Italian, he completed a Master's Degree in Public Service Interpreting at London Metropolitan University. The course he took gave him the opportunity to widen, deepen and perfect his written and oral language skills. It also triggered and gave life to a keen interest in investigating, comparing and contrasting English and Italian - two so very different languages. Since 2011 he has been delivering bilingual presentations on a variety of topics under the trade name of Passione Italiana. Frances Hotimsky was born in Hammersmith in 1946 and brought up in a bilingual environment in Italy. In 1970, she started teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) after gaining a first-class honours degree in Modern Languages at Università Bocconi. She investigated English and Italian in a contrastive approach, both as a teacher and an author. She lived in Milan, and latermoved to the UK in 2011. Bilingualism is the keyword to all her work. It has given her the opportunity to understand why Italian learners encounter difficulties with English and, conversely, why English learners find Italian 'ever so different'. Phonology is her key interest and area of research.