Names of the days of the week the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries. In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian "vtornik" "Tuesday" and "vtoroj" "the following", "chetverg" "Thursday" and "chetvertyj" "the fourth", "pyatnitsa" "Friday" and "pyatyj" "the fifth"; see also the Notes. In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the cycle of the stars (). The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" (which is literally translated to "star day")
Italian Week attention to Italian and Queensland actuality. For the first time, cities other than Brisbane such as Ipswich, Sunshine Coast, Cairns took part in the celebration showing a first attempt to export the festival involving other areas of Queensland and attaining a wider public in Australia. Events in Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Cairns enriched the Brisbane program with more than 70 events counted from 20 May to 4 June. The selected topic for 2011 was Dolce far Niente, that means “the sweetness of doing nothing”. This concept is the Italian awareness of enjoying one's leisure time dedicated your attention to the