Children of immigrants share two worlds: the one their parents came from; and the one they were born into. In this podcast, I share reflections of what it was like growing up in Canada to Italian immigrant parents. And now what it's like as an adult living half the year in Italy as a Canadian. For language learners, there are English and Italian scripts and audio versions.
Silvana Saccomani, April 2021
There is only one thing that we carry with us from birth to our death and beyond.
It’s our name. And in my case, it’s always caused me piccoli problemi.
At the time of my birth, my Italian immigrant parents had just arrived in their newly adopted country of ...
Silvana Saccomani, maggio 2021
C’e’ solo una cosa che ognuno di noi porta con se’ sin dalla propria nascita fino al momento della nostra morte e nell’aldila’.
Il nostro nome.
Riguardo al mio, mi ha sempre creato problemi.
Quando stavo per veni...
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Benvenuti and Welcome. I’m Silvana Saccomani and this is The Italian Diary: Reflections of a Canadian-Italian Daughter. Here I share stories of living between two worlds: Canada, where I was born and Italy where ...
Silvana Saccomani, April 2021
As the child of Italian immigrants growing up in Canada I must have been about four years old when I first heard the word. One I would subsequently hear repeated hundreds of times over the years. M-I-S-E-R-I-A…a word so simple and harmonic sounding yet packed with tremendous emotion because it means “dire poverty” in Engl...
Silvana Saccomani, aprile 2021
Come figlia di genitori emigrati dall’Italia, dovevo avere circa 4 anni quando sentii questa parola per la prima volta. Una parola che sarebbe stata ripetuta successivamente centinaia di volte nel corso degli anni. “MISERIA”: una parola semplice con un suono armonico, tuttavia imbottita di enorme emozione perche&rs...
Even if you don’t have Italian parents, you’ve probably heard the story of Pinocchio, remember the puppet who wanted to become a boy “a bambino” and every time he told lies his nose would grow longer.
Right. To avoid the same outcome as Pinocchio, I’m going to tell you a truth. la verità.
I confess that I ha...
Anche se non hai genitori italiani, conoscerai sicuramente la storia di Pinocchio, ti ricordi il burattino che voleva diventare un bambino ed al quale si allungava il naso quando diceva le bugie?
Bene, per evitare le stesse gravi conseguenze, ti racconterò la verità.
Ti confesso che ho un amante. Io amo dormire. E il sonno ama me. ...
This an episode about tiny little secrets. Do you have any? Have you been able keep them?
In my case, I can’t keep anything from Graham, my husband even when it’s in my best interest like the time I had two separate car accidents, in the span of a few days, both in front of our home in Montepulciano, nella bella Toscana.
Let&...
Settimane e settimane passarono prima che mi venisse il coraggio di raccontare a Graham, mio marito, che nel giro di pochi giorni, mi erano capitati due incidenti stradali con la macchina a noleggio che io avevo soprannominato Grigia.
Cominciamo con il primo incidente:
Ti premetto che quando raccontai l’accaduto a Graham, inv...
Ti ricordi di quell’episodio dove raccontavo che nel giro di una settimana mi erano capitati due incidenti con due diverse macchine a noleggio?
Per rinfrescarti la memoria ti ricordo che nel prima caso si trattava di una certa Suora che stava per prendere la patente. Un giorno, mentre stava facendo pratica con la mia auto urtò il cancello di fronte a casa no...
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