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La Ciociaria: What is it?

remake in 1989 in the form of a TV mini-series. Sophia Loren stars again.  This is an 1889 painting by Enrique Simonet called Ciociara...

All roads lead to Rome

project. In other cases, the name has a different source, as we shall see.    There are other old Roman roads featured in Yabla...

S prefix: overview

mind or not to mind with dispiacere.   As a negation or the opposite of the root...

Sconvolgere: another "S" prefix!

the past participle of sconvolgere, often used as an adjective) have other cognates in Italian. We'll list a few of them here:   "shocked,"  — scioccato  "devastated" — devastato...

L'erbaccia: Che cos'è?

Even now, in Italy, if you see an abandoned field or a roadside, chances are you will see someone taking advantage of...

Ways to begin in Italian

7  Play Caption   When avviare is used as a reflexive verb (avviarsi), it means "to leave,"...

Adverbs of time with multiple meanings

will choose stasera over stanotte, unless we are talking about something happening in the middle of the...

Expression: Essere su di giri

su di giri (no thanks, I'm already a bit wound up).     Are you old enough to remember hit singles?...

An additional meaning for capace

but do you know how to make a little fresh pasta? Are you capable? Caption 11, Anna e Marika...

The expression Che ne so?

saying "I don't know," especially when you are making a suggestion, as Marcello is doing. Some people might use...

Putting things behind us with croce (cross) and pietra (stone)

very likely think of a cross in a cemetery, and that would make sense. You are closing the door on something, burying it,...

What do Renaissance Italian coins have to do with us?

fiorino in Florence. We often translate it as "a farthing." But unless you studied Italian history,...

Getting over things, with superare, uscire, and reagire

talk about their problems, especially problems such as depression, an illness, or a relationship that has ended, there are certain...

Una rosa, due rose

something people say when two people get together as a couple, when someone finds a new job,...

What's accoglienza?

hotels, accoglienza can mean "the hospitality."    In a future lesson, we will look at related verbs, such as cogliere and raccogliere!  ...

Le Cinque Terre

we often skip the article, and talk about "Cinque Terre," as if it were one place, a spot to visit. But now that you...

Addressing people in Italian

In the following example, the speaker is a secretary or an assistant and she is speaking to her...

Addressing people in law enforcement

police have arrived at the home of a witness or suspect. They are in plain clothes and clearly investigators.  Ispettore,...

Travel vocabulary 2 - Arriving

the singular: atterrata (if you are female) or atterrato (if you are a male). The verb is atterrare.  We can...

Travel vocabulary - 1: Trains and buses

stazione, it is pretty clear you are talking about the train station, but if you are asking for the bus station, you will want...

Expressions this week

be adding it to last week's lesson as an update.   Palle  There's another expression from the same video. This one...

3 verbs that end in -are

Caption   We can use the past participle as an adjective with pallone to mean "hot air...

Tiptoeing into the participio presente

has the -ante or -ente ending) used as an adjective or a noun. We don't think about it much because the word has entered...

The verb aspettare and its nuances

something like "Hey wait!"). We don't need a preposition after it as we do in English — "to wait for." This...