Cotto e mangiato. Corso di Italiano multiculturale promotes an inclusive classroom. As a gendered language, the Italian language does not offer neutral forms and thus uses the masculine ending, both for singular and plural forms, as an universal ending. To respect non-binary people, we use schwa (ə). In some exercises you will find expressions such as “Conversa con il tuo compagno / la tua compagna;” and, in other parts of the textbook, you will read sentences such as “Dove sei statə? Con chi sei andatə?”

Students will be exposed to both forms  receiving the tools to better understand the intellectual debate surrounding the introduction of inclusive forms in the Italian language. For an introduction to this current debate, please read this article published by Accademia della Crusca, the Italian society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology.

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