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Making do with arrangiarsi

the night, but all we have is a sofabed... There are hundreds of situations that present themselves every...

Ci mancherebbe!

Extra study: We did a little research online and found a couple of interesting articles about the expression. You can read it in English or Italian,...

Getting personal with the reflexive

verbs and to get used to hearing (and understanding) them.   Here are a few more everyday examples that we think...

The basics of reflexive verbs

take a shower. Ti fai la doccia (are you going to take a shower)?   And if we speak in the third person...

Talking about the weather in Italian

especially these days, the weather can be capriccioso (mischievous) and imprevedibile (unpredictable). As a result, knowing how to talk about the weather like an Italian can be...

Breathing in Italian : Let us count the ways Part 3: breathless

stress," like when you have to run around doing 10 things at once, and you're on a time crunch. Stavo sempre a cercare lavoro,...

How does Italian work?

voi siete (you are) loro sono (they are)   A tricky thing about pronouns and verbs One of the trickiest things about Italian...

What's the problem?

just states the obvious in question form and is a rhetorical question. It's clear there is no...

Making choices in Italian part 2

is that when you use it as an adjective, you need a definite article after it and before the (plural) noun, as in the...

Making choices in Italian, Part 1

the words that come to mind when talking about choices are: either, or, both, either one, whichever one (among...

Another way to be happy

more.   It can be short-term: We're sitting around a crowded table and my host wonders if I have enough...

What Does Su Mean?

storia semplice sul gelato, ma molto interessante. And I'll tell you a few simple stories about ice cream, but very interesting. Caption 10,...

Exercises Using Mancare

understanding how to talk about things that are missing, absent, or lacking, and also about getting personal and missing someone, feeling someone's absence...

More about Mancare : When Something Is Lacking

due giorni, eh, alla fine del mese. And there are only two days left, huh, before the...

Italian Ways to Think about Things

the subjunctive!   Riflettere When someone asks you a question and you need to think about it, one common verb to use in...

Managing with farcela

in the infinitive (arrivare, mangiare, finire). Here are a few examples:   Ce la faremo ad arrivare...

Does discutere mean "discuss?"

they had. They might well be talking about an argument.   Another way to tell that discutere...

Catching up with Un medico in famiglia

This is our old house. Now we are about to move to a new house. Captions 30-31, Un medico in famiglia...

Il gusto — the sense of taste

etc. In this next example, it's all about a tie someone wears to a wedding. Eh,...

L'olfatto — the sense of smell

sense of smell and how to talk about smelling things and how things smell, since it works a bit differently than it does in English....

Dolci: What do Italians mean by that?

is the option of a cappuccino or a caffè macchiato. These names are visual: Cappuccio means "hood." There is a...

Getting somewhere with via (way)

Corso base di snowboard Snowboard  Play Caption   And when we are talking about the start of something, we use the...

4 ways to translate "way" into Italian

of the situation? We're pretty much talking about a direction here, either literal or figurative. Which...

Using the noun la volta (the time)

Time” also has several connotations. So let's take a closer look.   Here are some examples of how volta is commonly used: Sarà la...