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Having to Do With “Having to Do With”: avere a che fare con

to deal with). Lots of little words all in a row, and when the third person singular...

A Grammatical Look at Giving Gifts

one single word, donarmelo.   Learning suggestion: Take a look at the conjugations of fare (to make, to...

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...

Magari — A Magic Word

in the water. Her reply, Magari! in a phrase all by itself, said with a certain emphasis,...

Gobbo and gobba: nouns or adjectives?

moon was waxing or waning. Here is an article in Italian about that.  In a recent video, there is also mention of...

La luna (the moon) and agricultural tools

to grow." So a crescent moon is a growing (or waxing) moon. In Italian, we talk about la luna crescente or, when it's waning,...

Italian terms of endearment

mio (my friend), it is usually not a friend at all. Here, too, the noun changes its ending...

Reflexive verbs in compound tenses

neve mi domandavo se ce l'avrei fatta a diventare un artista. In the midst of all that snow I wondered if I could...

Struggling with fare fatica

doing, or it can mean you have a prior commitment, such as an appointment or errand.  No, domani avrei un...

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...

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...

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...

Scordare vs dimenticare (to forget)

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 is always preceded by the preposition a.   🇮🇹 la fatica...

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?

in many situations. See also this lesson about ci mancherebbe.   Yet another response when someone says grazie is: figurati. 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"

the architect is talking to his designers about opening up the space to let more...

What's sbarcare il lunario?

Lunario is well known in Italy as a kind of almanac, aimed at an agricultural readership, providing the phases of the...

Lo zampino: What's that?

parte degli ultimi - Part 17  Play Caption   Mettere lo zampino is an expression that means "to interfere." To have...

Notes on Benvenuti In Galera

Galera (welcome to prison) is a documentary about a restaurant. It's a special restaurant because it's inside...

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...