A little effort to speak the language can buy a whole lot of goodwill in Italy. In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants ...

Twice weekly at the Peter Cardella Senior Center in Ridgewood, Queens, a deejay sets up in the dining room and the floor fills with couples. One recent Thursday, Vincent Messina, looking sharp in a ...

Here at PEZ, we are unabashedly Italo-philes. After the racing and the riding and the eating and especially the drinking, comes time to learn some of the language. While pointing and sign language are ...

I am terrible at foreign languages. Despite traveling to Europe four months a year, I can barely put a sentence together anywhere east or south of England. With some creative communication, I manage ...

In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants will almost certainly speak at least some English. But venture to smaller towns ...