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Vivere: Living the Experience

Caption   And here’s Jovanotti in his song about positive thinking, with a verb and a noun that both mean “experience”!   ...e...

Getting Someone’s Attention in Italian: Ascoltare and Sentire

that in polite speech, the imperative has an “a” at the end of senta, but an “i” at...

Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu

Adriano Celentano's hit song, Azzurro, sung by Milena and friends, give you an idea of what azzurro is all about:   Lei è partita per le spiagge e...

Giardino vs Orto

that in May and June, plants grow at an amazing rate, and need to be kept under control. Maggio...

Hypothesis Versus Reality - The Subjunctive and the Conditional

just change one element in one clause at a time (the person, the subjunctive verb, or...

Everything Changes

future tense verbs you can pick out. Attenzione: not all words with accents at the end are verbs. The second line...

What to Say While You're Thinking of What to Say

such as in response to being asked about a film or a book) to an expression of frustration or impatience (used with...

Degrees of Love

when he or she is quite serious about a romantic relationship. But to express the kind...

The Need to Need: Bisogna and Bisogno

conditional (bisognerebbe) or the future (bisognerà) as well.  Bisogna is a quick and neutral (sometimes maddeningly neutral) way to talk about what needs doing. For example, one housemate...

Musical Nouns

from the street to the curb, or a single step of many scalini, like the ones Marika talks about at the beginning of her latest newscast.    Per...

To mind or not to mind with dispiacere

For more on saying “not bad” with an exclamation point, see the lesson Elegant and Not So Elegant Turns of Phrase. Dispiacere is...

Wasting Time and Leaky Faucets: All about the Verb Perdere

When talking about winning and losing, vincere (to win) and perdere (to...

Ricordare: Remembering and Reminding

ricordare as “to remind,” it becomes ricordare a and gets used with an indirect object, as in the above example....

Alimenti, Ravioli, and Pinzimonio

food   In an episode of La Ladra, there’s a discussion about pinzimonio between Eva and her new cook, Dante.   Come vuole Lei,...

Wishing You the Best, with "Buono"

sui libri. By day I slogged away at a construction site and by night with my books. Caption 6,...

The Gender Gap

of grammatical gender see this article. Have another look at Lesson 15, A Few Words About “Some” (Qualche and Alcuni) where, towards the...

How to say you're sorry in Italian

dispiace is used even when it’s not at all a question of asking pardon, such as when...

The Italian Alphabet - Part 2

a challenge. As Marika spells out in a lesson for beginners about the alphabet, Italians use the names of cities (for...

The Italian take on “take” and “make” (prendere and fare)

an appointment, but when Francesca gets serious about buying a new car, she “takes” an appointment:   Dobbiamo prendere quindi un appuntamento per...

The Italian Alphabet - Part 1

Italian consonants themselves (except for X) are all written and pronounced ending in a vowel, and sometimes they begin with a...

Getting to Know Conoscere

is going to her first riding lesson at a nearby stable, and she tells us:   Ehm, questo ragazzo che...

Pizza al taglio, aperitivi, and stuzzichini

style. The apericena exists both in bars about town, offering an alternative to a costly tab in a restaurant, and in...

Prendere and Riprendere

word, meaning two very different things, appears at a distance of just a few lines in...

Beccare

beccato [or beccata] un raffreddore (I caught a cold), or if after dialing someone’s number many times, they finally...