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CVI • N. 40 • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 • GIOVEDÌ 2 OTTOBRE 2014 FACEBOOK.COM/ITALOAMERICANONEWSPAPER Maria Montessori's educational method is still in use in many schools throughout the world italoamericano.com $ 1.20 DATED MATERIAL - DO NOT DELAY Continued on page 3 Maria Montessori's pioneering educational method that shaped successful American businesses Origins and evolution of the Italian language GIuLIA LOuISE STEIGErwALT Last week, Google celebrated its 16th anniversary. Behind the creation of the web giant, as Many people around the world today want to learn Italian. Some because they have Italian origins, maybe their grand par- ents were Italian; others because they like to travel and be able to speak while they visit Italy. Italian is one of the most studied languages in the world. Like all languages it is also an idiom in constant evolution. But what are the origins of the Italian language? Italian descends from Latin and among the Romance lan- guages, meaning all the lan- guages deriving from Latin, Continued on page 2 Well before unification, Italian usurped Latin as the official language of the various Italian states well as of others the likes of Amazon and Wikipedia, there is a generation of brilliant Montessori-educated founders. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and Jimmy Wales all attended Montessori schools in the U.S., inspired by the innova- tive educational approach devel- oped in the early 1890s by Italian physician and educator SILVIA SIMONETTI Continua a pagina 14 SIMONE SCHIAVINATO National Italian American Heritage Month. Ottobre è il mese che ricorda agli Stati Uniti il contributo degli italiani e degli americani di origini ita- liane al progresso nazionale. Potremmo non celebrarlo noi, che siamo dal 1908 la voce della comunità italo-americana della West Coast? Quando venne fondato L'Italo Americano dal fiorenti- no Gabriello Spini, lo scopo del giornale fu subito chiaro: "Informare, Unire e Assistere" la nascente comunità italiana di Los Angeles. Una mission che è rimasta inalterata nel tempo ma che negli anni si è estesa a un'a- rea ben più vasta se si considera che oggi il nostro settimanale copre 4 Stati nel progetto di unire tutte le comunità italoa- mericane della West Coast. L'Italia di oggi è il futuro che avanza negli Usa

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