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Places to Sit in Italian - Part 1

and weights. La panca can used to seat people at a performance, usually in a makeshift theater. This...

Making Mistakes with Gusto and Feeling

Play Caption   However, it is not correct at all to use both figures at the same...

Making Sense of Senso

the English cognate “sense,” but it’s not always a perfect fit. It’s easy to fall into...

Extra Reading References

Rails from Milan to Palermo 2013 This is all about the railway system in Italy, and how...

Come mai?

pot off the burner?   But come mai can also be a less aggressive way to say perché in certain situations. After all, with come mai, you are interested in knowing the other...

School and Workplace Vocabulary - Part 1 Compito and Interrogare

verbs, compiere and competere sound similar and are also relevant. We'll look at these in an upcoming lesson.   In Europe, there is a tradition of final exams being oral rather than written,...

Anche se and Persino in Context

too many instances of one particular consonant all together. A good example is: tra fratelli  (between or among brothers)....

Capito?

the present indicative of capire. In this case, we’re talking about understanding something or someone on a deeper level. It’s used transitively, and means...

Il Fine and La Fine

the Yabla search you will also see fine with no article at all. This is used when two nouns stand...

La vita quotidiana (daily life)

you can schedule the wash to start at an appropriate time.  A load of wash takes a lot longer...

Custodire and Its Relatives

prisoner is also known as un detenuto. “Detention” at school, after all, is a form of punishment, and “imprisons” the student...

Are Accents Important?

usually find these accents? If we know a bit more about them, we can be prepared for them...

The Little Words: Particles ne and ci in Context

some practice. Let’s have a quick look at a few examples in this week’s episode of...

Future and Conditional in the First Person Plural

That way, we'll be able to talk about all of these archaeological sites. Captions 9-12, Escursioni...

Education and Educazione: Friends or Not?

Caption   In the following example, we’re talking about a dog. For Caterina, the dog is part...

When O's Become U's - Welcome to Sicily

we call it a dialect, it’s actually a language all its own. The Italian State was born...

The Mystery of the Hidden Pronouns

flying elephant, who, for our purposes, is a male. Since we’ve already mentioned him by name at the beginning of the sentence, we don’t...

Stare: Another Way of Being

speech): stare per (to be about to). Sto per cadere (I'm about to fall).   But let’s also take a closer look at the verb stare (to be). It’s so similar to essere (to be) and...

If at First You Don't Succeed: riuscire

several verbs in this context but let’s take a closer look at the verb riuscire because, although commonly used in Italian,...

Colloquial Speech

colloquially: “no nothing,” or, in correct English: “nothing at all.”   E, in due anni, zero litigate. And...

Word Order Options with Modal Verbs and Object Pronouns

infinitive, which loses its final e.  Let's look at an example.   Here, the object pronoun comes just...

Sapere sapere sapere

late,” or we don’t use any preposition at all, as in “I know I am late.”...

The Verb Ricordare (to Remember) in Context

in that there is no direct object at all. She’s just saying, “You don’t remember, do...

Remembering and Forgetting with Ricordare and Dimenticare

to remember if we think of making a mental record of something.​ Dimenticare, if you...