English is a strange language. Over the centuries it has crossed geographical and cultural boundaries, conquered countries far away in space and time, found itself on the mouths of generals, great political leaders and sports champions, to end up labeled with the ungrateful brand of easy language to learn and speak. Is that really true?
It will be because of his great synthesis capacity, to express concepts clearly and decisively, but English is often seen as the exact opposite of Italian. At first glance, in fact, our language seems to be among the few to be able to boast a rich vocabulary, dense with facets and different variations. But there are cases that seem to completely overturn this. common belief.
Let's take a practical example. We're planning moving in London, whether for work or for study does not matter. We have prepared the best departure, thought about all the details of the trip in detail. Maybe we even went to a meeting. English school Rome, not to find us immediately unprepared to first language examination with the employeeLondon Heathrow airport.
Arrived in the beautiful capital, we begin to search house and we encounter a small problem: unlike Italian, in English the term house can be translated with house or home. With the first Anglo-Saxons refer to the accommodation intended as physical space, with the second instead they call the dwelling where feelings live.
After visiting some apartment, we finally found a cozy place where to get back exhausted by the night raids around Piccadilly Circus. But life in London does not only proceed with visits between the halls of the National Gallery or take selfie in front of the Big Ben.
All this wandering around the city has put us a great hunger. We enter one of London's most famous restaurants as the steakhouse Goodman Canary Wharf to try the delicious seconds of English culinary tradition. Another problem, because even in this case English differentiates vocabolo meat in meat, which is animal meat, and flesh, that is human and not, not edible.
Passed without too much difficulty also the gastronomic scoglio without making us pass by cannibali, it is time to give yourself to a little healthy shopping in one of the most famous shopping centers in the world: the department stores Harrods, located in the district Knightsbridge, I am the biggest store in Europe. Believe that a space of 90.000 square meters can suffice to your hunger to buy?
Even in autumn, temperatures in England can become very rigid.
We decide to equip ourselves to the best and look around a leather jacket fashionable, able to keep us warm and up with the times. But be careful: skin is for the English thehuman epidermis, while leather refers to what we wear.
We are finally ready to enjoy some of the last task. healthy relaxation. In the shade of our new room we think back at home, to those we left there, family, friends or someone special. With nostalgia we come back to mind all feelings that we feed for them, love, brotherhood, love. Perhaps it is only at this moment that the English are more synthetic than us, because they call love all the dynamics of the heart.
Article made in collaboration with Wall Street English.
