Enjoy learning to speak Italian in the setting of an authentic Italian restaurant in downtown San Mateo with a native Italian speaker from Tuscany, Italy, not far from Firenze. Conversation on food, culture, history, current events and even sports with eachother and with Fabio and his friends at Acqua Pazza restaurant in San Mateo.

We are Mario and Angelica and we run I.E.I., a small Italian Language and cultural Institute http://www.ItalybyTheBay.org We also run and have have fun with these other sites, all of them promoting Italian and Italy somehow After 8 years of operation in the San Francisco Peninsula, we are organizing Italian Italy Travels, exploring Southern Italy and other itineraries not usually available to non Italian travelers. Join us in our Italian Conversations with your ideas and needs and in our travels …

… An expat is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence. The word comes from the Latin terms ex ("out of") and patria ("country, fatherland").