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How to Pronounce the Letter “C” in Italian

by porticando | Wed, 05/12/2021 - 11:14

Italian is considered one of the most beautiful and melodic languages in the world—the language of music—but how difficult it is to pronounce sometimes! This…

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How to be Polite in Italian

by porticando | Wed, 05/05/2021 - 09:33

No matter if you have visited Italy many times before or if it’s your first time, it’s always important to know the rules of politeness and remember to use…

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Navigating the Market in Italian

by rebeccawinke | Wed, 04/14/2021 - 11:19

One of the pillars of daily Italian life can also be one of the most harrowing experiences for the uninitiated, a veritable minefield of potential cultural…

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Cool! Awesome! Enthusiastic Italian Slang

by rebeccawinke | Wed, 03/17/2021 - 01:47

I have two teenagers in my house, so I hear slang (in both English and Italian) a lot and I won’t lie: I can’t keep up with most of it. Slang is the spice of…

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How to Use Italian Accent Marks from Acute to Grave

by rebeccawinke | Thu, 03/04/2021 - 00:50

Just like the umlaut (those two dots over some vowels) in German and the tilde (the squiggly line over the letter n) in Spanish, Italian has a couple of letter…

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Buon Anno! Have You Made Any New Year’s Resolutions?

by Alesha Allen | Wed, 12/30/2020 - 01:18

The new year is a great time to make some resolutions. I’d like to take some trips to Italy once it's safe to do so, spend more time with friends and family,…

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Forza, Resisti! How Italians Keep on Keeping On

by rebeccawinke | Thu, 07/30/2020 - 11:10

In a recent speech, Italy’s Health Minister Roberto Speranza shared his belief that the first half of 2020 has been the most difficult in the history of the…

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How Old Are You_ How to Express Age (Or Other States of Being) in Italian

by rebeccawinke | Thu, 07/02/2020 - 05:58

Expressing a state of being is one of the most important and fundamental uses of language. How you are feeling in a specific moment (hungry, cold, sad) and…

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Days of The Week in Italian

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 01/09/2020 - 16:13

A question my friends and I used to ask each other regularly when I lived in Italy was: what are you doing on Saturday evening? This would then spark a…

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Irregular Present Tense Verbs Ending in -Arre, -Orre and -Urre

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 11/21/2019 - 10:40

When you start learning Italian, you’re taught that there are three conjugations to Italian verbs: -are, -ere and -ire. But have you ever come across any verbs…