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The waiting game with aspettare and attendere

as on the phone.   We've already had a lesson about the verb aspettare and its nuances. In this lesson, we will...

Double letters matter. Case in point, molare and mollare

trigger on a gun you are releasing an internal spring. So using molla and scattare together are a way of saying "to trigger."   We use...

What's un colpo di fulmine?

to this word. In police stories, it's about a shot from a firearm.  Le hanno sparato...

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

used to be many more than there are now, would look into the sky and see a shape that might correspond to something in...

Italian terms of endearment

We've talked about Italian nicknames and how they are formed in this lesson. But there are...

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

the idea. Lots of times you make an effort because you are trying hard, and that's when we can use impegnarsi (to make...

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

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

ball bounced on the ground, bounced up and fell into a pond. Caption 7, Ti racconto una fiaba...

🌿 Primavera in fiore: orto o giardino?

hoe is used to move the soil around and not form a crust around the young plant in such...

All about particles vi, ve, ci, and ce

confused about ci, don't worry. There is a reason there are so many lessons about ci. There is always something new to learn about...

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)

the verb as a plain, transitive verb, dimenticare is a solid choice, and the easiest. Alle volte dimentico che sei...

Notes on "Quando sarai piccola"

has some words and grammar points that are worth taking into consideration. And, even if you aren't a Yabla subscriber, you can find the song...

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?

things, such as "this way," "go ahead," "after you," "here you are." See this lesson about pregare, the verb from which prego (the...

How Italians use English words

the same way the letter i is pronounced, and a g followed by an i is usually pronounced like a J....

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...