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Tanto/quanto: the key to balanced comparisons

say about this useful word.  It's not all about asking how much something costs at the market. We use quanto in comparisons,...

E questo è quanto

a police team has been discussing how a victim was murdered, and after listing the available information, the coroner says...

From Pamphlets to Paperbacks: Italian Words for the Printed Page

these golden albums back together, three, four at a time, it would become a, uh... a,...

Commenting on appearances with sembrare and vedere

You are dressed perfectly for this place, and you seem very at ease to me. Captions 67-68, Romanzo Italiano...

Getting along or not in Italian

pure un po' antipatico. He is stern and also a bit unfriendly. Caption 41, Provaci ancora prof!...

To exist or not to exist

greater emotion in the world than driving a Ferrari at two hundred and forty kilometers per hour.] Caption 18, Autocollection EP2...

The passive voice using andare

grammar experts).    In this lesson, we'll talk about another verb used to form the passive. This...

The passive voice in Italian with venire

gioielli da Christie's. London. It was sold at a jewelry auction at Christie's. Caption 2, La...

An important false friend to know: fare impressione

an impression." Or rather, something does make an impression on you, but it generally has a negative connotation and can range from "to be "disconcerting," "disgusting,"...

Immaginare vs supporre part 2

be interchangeable with immaginare, because we're talking about a supposition based on something concrete. Questo perché...

The fine line between story and history

sono lasciati dopo pochi mesi. (They had an affair, but they broke it off after a few months.)   When it's more of a...

Immaginare vs. Supporre Part 1

yourself] my surprise when I discovered that after all these years you had become... A cop? -No! Beautiful! Captions 6-9, Il Commissario Manara...

Apulia's unique architecture

But a few weeks later, we transcribed and translated a documentary about architecture and lo and behold, one segment discussed...

Are you confused about confondere?

In a previous lesson, we talked about votare, a verb that has an additional meaning we rarely think of. Another...

Dunque: using it informally

subscriber noticed that things didn't match up and wrote a comment. After considering "well", we decided that although "therefore"...

La fiducia (trust) and fidarsi (to trust)

Before discussing how fidarsi works, let's look at a passage from a recent video on Yabla...

Votare and il voto are more than just cognates

into these words.    In the first segment of a documentary about comic books, there's a curious example of votare...

When two words become one: univerbazione

and repeating, you don't need to worry about this at all. You might notice a difference in pronunciation among the various regions...

Going deeper with dietro (behind)

in the Latin "de retro." It's both an adverb and a preposition but it can also be a...

Cecina and cecina

egg, ham, tuna fish, mushrooms and mozzarella, and a white pizza with dried beef, arugula and...

Che c'entra? — What does that have to do with it?

In this example, there is no question at all. And there is no che! Magari c'entra con...

Lattina or Scatola?

can both mean "can," it's worth taking a look at the differences in usage between these two...

Amaro: the bitter and the sweet

in alcohol (of different types), adding sugar at some point, and letting it age for about a month. It's often thought of as being...

Correre (to run) and related words

you always said that those who go running at a certain age are pathetic? Captions 37-39, Provaci...