{"id":467,"date":"2020-01-28T05:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:44:56","slug":"gesturing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/gesturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gesturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"border: 15px groove;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;width: 100%\">\n<blockquote style=\"border: 5px dotted;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;margin: 0px;padding: 15px 35px 35px 25px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;Only half of communicating like a native Italian is about having adequate grammar skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Italians are known to be expressive, both with their hands and facial expressions. In order to communicate like a true Italian, it is important to learn how to use gestures.&nbsp;<strong>Use resources below as a guide to understanding Italian gestures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-top: 5px dotted #000000;padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 0px;border-left: #ffffff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 20px\"><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>PICTURES:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/07\/01\/world\/europe\/A-Short-Lexicon-of-Italian-Gestures.html?ref=europe\">A Short Lexicon of Italian Gestures<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonomad.com\/1766-italian-hand-gestures-in-conversation\"><strong>Italian Hand Gestures in Conversation<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shortcuts\/2013\/jul\/02\/how-speak-italian-with-hand-gestures\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">A Crash Course in Italian Hand Gestures<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>VIDEOS:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DW91Ec4DYkU\"><strong>Italian Hand Gestures: A Short History<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_8hAOxsTpVY\">How to Talk with your Hands<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hxu50kiDVGc\"><strong>Learn Italian Hand Gestures with Male Models<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Only half of communicating like a native Italian is about having adequate grammar skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Italians are known to be expressive, both with their hands and facial expressions. In order to communicate like a true Italian, it is important to learn how to use gestures.&nbsp;Use resources below as a guide to understanding Italian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7869,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}