Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

For Italians in Brooklyn, Voices on Streets Have Changed. Some, like Luigi Buonincondro, 91, a former Italian soldier who came to New York from Naples in 1961, understand English, but have a hard time reading or writing it. “I got here, I was 44,” Mr. Buonincondro, a retired carpenter who lives three blocks from the center, said in heavily accented English as he savored some manicotti in the center's cafeteria. “I had to work. Too old for school.”