I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.

It is the media area where the differential performance has been greatest and where we feel the valuation gaps across the Atlantic now look most extreme.

It is the media area where the differential performance has been greatest and where we feel the valuation gaps across the Atlantic now look most extreme,

[Rai made her English-language debut and gained international media attention with the February release of] Bride & Prejudice, ... Bend It Like Beckham.

The program will encourage language and practice in the lab. We need more programs in the multi-media center. We need more software to encourage speaking abilities and exercises. This will greatly enhance the Italian language program. Learning Italian and any language is a good experience because it teaches them a whole different culture and way of thinking.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.