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628 lessons found

Legno or Legna ?

for burning/firewood). The following example is from a fascinating video on Yabla about olive trees and making olive oil.   Quando avveniva questo distacco...

How to Address Your Teacher in Italian

a fascinating story and Yabla has featured a documentary about Fascism and Italian language. Check out the relative lesson: What's...

The Panzanella Crossword Puzzle

This lesson is simply a crossword puzzle in Italian, especially for you,...

Solutions to Crossword "La Panzanella"

answers to La Panzanella crossword puzzle:   PLACEHOLDE   Here are the answers:   Across: 4) per togliere il sapore forte della...

Tutti Quanti

the example below, Alberto Angela is talking about a fact, a situation, so he uses the singular, and likewise, quanto becomes singular, and in this...

What Does "Proprio" Actually Mean?

may be cause for confusion. We'll talk about this more in a future lesson.   Una città dove non c'è...

Strappare: To Tear, To Rip

the difference, go back to the examples about hair. There's a double P in strappare, or strappo, but...

Animali and Animalisti

their pets. So being able to talk about pets and animals can be a great way to start a conversation with...

Ways to Say "Free" in Italian

Part 3  Play Caption   Gratuito is Italian, and is a common choice when it comes after to the noun it modifies, as in...

Let's Look at the Italian Adjective Precario

upset when he read it.    Musicista precario a me? An occasional musician? Me? Caption 35, Chi m'ha...

What Are Virgolette? How to Use Punctuation Terms in Speech

or "period" in Italian. Capo means "head," and so we are at the head of a new paragraph. But we also use punto...

How Adjectives Work in Italian Part 2

are a great many nouns that are predictable and as a result, their adjectives are predictable, too.   Nouns and adjectives go together...

Emozionato or Nervoso? What's the Difference? 

nervoso, is more about being irritable, in a bad mood. When you are nervous about doing something new, difficult, exciting, the Italian...

How Adjectives Work in Italian Part 1

off, let's review what an adjective is and what it does. An adjective describes or modifies a noun, as opposed to an adverb, which describes...

Adverbs Formed from Adjectives: Some Easy Tricks

those that answer the question, come (how). In fact, there are a good number of adverbs that can be...

Adverbs Formed from Adjectives: Answers

Here are the adverbs easily formed from adjectives.  probabile (probable)...

Ways to Talk about Death in Italian

Valeri's passing to talk about how Italians talk about death. It's never easy, and it's not a happy subject, but sometimes knowing how to talk...

How to Get Mad in Italian

will see, in some cases, both avercela and prendersela are used in similar situations.   But prendersela contains...

Working Things Out with Sistemare

allora con un ingegnoso sistema di raccolta delle acque, And so with an ingenious system for collecting water, riuscì a riempire ben sette cisterne che sono sparsi...

5 Different Ways to Use the Word Accordo (Agreement)

noun un accordo by itself, it means "an agreement." Abbiamo firmato un accordo (we signed an agreement)....

Everyday Negatives

Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 4  Play Caption   And if you need an object pronoun instead of a noun, don't forget to change mi (to...

Quadro: so many meanings — what's their connection?

talking about art, it's wise to distinguish. Paintings are usually on a canvas, and the canvas is usually four-sided (admittedly, not...

Finding No Fault with Grinza and Piega

can help us remember them. Let's talk about wrinkles. Somebody has a plan, or an explanation for something. How do we say that...

Lo Shopping: Useful vocabulary for shopping in Italy

or fare la spesa to buy groceries for a dinner you are planning, it’s handy to have some words to...