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A Grammatical Look at Giving Gifts

talks about his approach to writing songs, and about ecological awareness. ...

A Few Words About “Some” (Qualche and Alcuni)

noun following it!   Alcuni/Alcune Now let’s look at another way to say “some” or “a few”: alcuni and alcune. Unlike qualche, which is quite close...

Magari — A Magic Word

raccontano..., we are at the close of a conversation between Marika and Anna, talking about their lives. Instead of just saying, ora...

Reflexive verbs in compound tenses

mi ha domandato: "Ma che la politica a te piace?" And then she asked me: "But do you...

Struggling with fare fatica

worked on hospital ships, during the war, and they had a vegetable garden in Procida so they lived...

How to translate "fluency" and "fluent" into Italian

for this can be tricky. Fluency is all about speaking a "foreign" language with ease and confidence.  Let's look at the dictionary definitions...

Expression: Prendere la palla al balzo

of this Italian expression is cogliere la palla al balzo. All that changes is the verb, from prendere...

🌿 Primavera in fiore: orto o giardino?

cultivate your language skills too?   Let's have a look at some vocabulary related to spring, gardening, and growing vegetables. Even if you are not...

All about particles vi, ve, ci, and ce

words, it's translated as "you" plural, as an object. Let's look at a couple of examples.  Io quello che vi...

How to use tra l'altro

Here, Diana is rattling off some information about a rich guy, and then adds some extra information (with tra...

Scordare vs dimenticare (to forget)

ways to use dimenticare (and scordare) in compound tenses with and without pronouns, but we'll look at them in a future lesson. See this lesson about remembering and...

Notes on "Quando sarai piccola"

sarai piccola  Play Caption   📚 For more about a malapena, see this lesson. Malapena never stands alone and...

The prefix pro- (forward)

the origin of something, whereas venire is an action, a movement in the direction of the speaker, writer, or...

After grazie (thank you), what do you say?

See also Marika's video where she talks about the verb mancare. It's a tricky verb in Italian and used in many situations. See also this...

How Italians use English words

not prepared for it, either. We expect an Italian word! Let's look at a few of these words.    Il catering (the...

When "they" means "someone"

60-63, Provaci ancora prof! S3EP1 - Due americane a Roma - Part 18  Play Caption   And we will just add, for general information,...

What's sbarcare il lunario?

providing the phases of the moon of a given year and information about when to plant certain crops, when to...

Lo zampino: What's that?

in its diminutive form, it's often figurative and can mean a couple of different things, depending on the...

Notes on Benvenuti In Galera

risi, segue un maiale e uno scottadito. A salmon and an octopus, followed by five rices, followed by...

D'altronde: Let's take it apart

is more of a Rambo line than a centurion one, after all, you want to be an actor. Captions 34-35, Provaci ancora prof! S3EP1...

Frutto or frutta? What's the difference?

articolo partitivo (a partitive article) which combines a preposition and an article to mean "an indefinite quantity of...

What's the difference between tra and fra?

vice versa.    Our first example is from a video about prepositions, including tra and fra.   Compagnia: "Mi piacerebbe organizzare una cena...

Carrying Meanings: How Portare Gave Us Portata and Portato

In this lesson, we're going to talk about an adjective and a noun stemming from the common verb portare. Portare comes...

Giungere, arrivare: what's the difference?

do with getting from one place to another, at least in their simple, literal meaning. Arrivare...