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Chiuso per Ferie: The Slowest Week of the Year

and blue skies. People want to be at the seaside. In a video about the culinary arts, an art critic mentions gli anni di piombo (the years...

Getting to the Point with Dunque and Nocciolo

heart of this lesson: dunque is also used as a noun in the expressions venire al dunque (to come to the point), andare al dunque (to...

Verbs of Uncertainty and the Subjunctive

and popular Yabla interview with Silvia D’Onghia, a journalist, who obviously loves her job. At the end she says:   Credo che sia...

Understanding Addosso

with a preposition to be transformed into a compound preposition/adverb: addosso. If there’s an indirect object in the form of a...

The Underlying Meaning of "Allora"

allora è sempre "bene", If I'm talking about an adverb, in that case it's always "bene," una situazione, se parlo di un...

Vivere: Living the Experience

male vivere in Italia, anzi! It's not at all bad living in Italy, on the contrary!...

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

to be up there   Learning suggestion: Take a look around at all the blue items you can see. Try...

Giardino vs Orto

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

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

get used. Marika gives a news report about a school perched high on a hill. Let's...

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

well as on the context. Tutto è relativo (it’s all relative)! Sometimes it serves to temper or soften a statement that might hurt someone’s feelings, as...

Wasting Time and Leaky Faucets: All about the Verb Perdere

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

Ricordare: Remembering and Reminding

as in the above example. The preposition a (to)—sometimes connected to an article, as above—goes between ricordare and the...

Alimenti, Ravioli, and Pinzimonio

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

Wishing You the Best, with "Buono"

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

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...