Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Starting point




The History of material culture starts from the human being. This discipline belongs to the Anthropology field and deals with the relationship between man and things.

Within the knowledge processes, things and their names are strictly correlated.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Do Undo Man Woman - 做 不做 男 女



This is the title of the course, and, in the following, the words chosen for starting an elementary multilingual dictionary are reported in the sequence (Student, English term, Italian term):

ALMGREN TESSUTO TISSUE
BARBERIS CUCIRE TO SEW
BARONE TAGLIARE TO CUT
BELLESINI ARIA AIR
BROLIN RETE NET
BRUCCO FILO THREAD
CAMORALI CUOIO LEATHER
CANDILORO PIETRA STONE
CAPPONE OSSO BONE
CARCIONE ACQUA WATER
CARNEVALE TORCERE TO TWIST
CAVALLIN CONTARE TO COUNT
CHAI COPPIA COUPLE, PAIR
CHENG SINGOLO SINGLE
CORINTO FONDERE TO MOULD
COUVINHAS FERRO IRON
ESPOSITO MAGLIA KNITTING
ESPRO PIEGARE TO BEND
FAN TANTI MULTIPLE, MANY
FARETINA TERRA EARTH
GAROFALO COMPERARE TO BUY
LAZZARI INTRECCIARE TO WEAVE
LI ESSERE TO BE
MICELLI STRAPPARE TO TEAR
MUNULLI FUOCO FIRE
NIKFAM BOTTONE BUTTON
PONTE LAVARE TO WASH
RAIMONDO RICORDARE TO REMEMBER
RUBEGA FORMARE TO FORM
SACCO NODO KNOT
SPAGNOLO TINGERE TO PAINT
STROPPIANA SCRIVERE TO WRITE
TANGI LEGNO WOOD
VARGIU VETRO GLASS
VINELLA VENDERE TO SELL
WEI AVERE TO HAVE
ZHANG FARE TO DO
ZHAO DISEGNARE TO DRAW

The students are invited to produce some cardboard panels like the following: