Here’s an odd press release that I received yesterday via e-mail……Dan
Dear Radio Operator:
With the advent of the mobile phone, Marconi’s revolution has come full circle. After his initial successful experiment in transmitting wireless messages from one point to another, he established himself in 1903 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, when he transmitted a letter from America to England and back, wherein His Majesty exchanged greetings with President Roosevelt.
In 2003, during the centennial celebration of that event, Princess Elettra Marconi, daughter of Mr. Marconi, together with a high school science student, spoke on their personal phone with an American astronaut orbiting the earth. One hundred years earlier, Nobel Prize winner Marconi had recounted how one day individuals on earth and in outer space would be communicating with one another, wirelessly.
The Dante University of America Foundation is proud to present the biography of Mr. Marconi as told by his wife and daughter: Marconi My Beloved.
The Foundation is also proud to announce that the first lesson of the online Italian Conversation Course is now available, free to Radio Amateurs, and that Lesson 2 will soon be online.
Best wishes!
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any more information on this class on the Dante University website. The page that presumably would give more information on the course was blank.
I did go to the registration page and found the course listed there. I filled out the form and submitted it, so I guess that I’m now registered for Lesson 1. I don’t know if subsequent lessons will also be available for free.
Ray says
According to http://www.danteuniversity.org/programs.html only the first lesson is free – the remaining 9 lessons are $15 each.