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Addressing people in Italian

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

Addressing people in law enforcement

the first example, we're on the street and a uniformed police officer arrives on the scene....

Travel vocabulary 2 - Arriving

sono scappata dal Pronto Soccorso. I took a taxi and ran off from the emergency room. Caption...

Travel vocabulary - 1: Trains and buses

pronounce, but when we turn it into an adjective, it's a bit trickier.  ...e la ricevuta di un...

Expressions this week

pass.   Sedicente The breakfast conversation is partially about a guy who calls himself a prince. Riccardo...

3 verbs that end in -are

to animals, such as a dog gnawing at a bone, but it's used with people, too,...

Tiptoeing into the participio presente

When you have spoken a language all your life (and are not a language nerd), there are...

The verb aspettare and its nuances

use "expect," is when you invite someone and then you expect them at a certain hour. "I'll be expecting you!" Italians...

Talking about the seasons in Italian

mezza stagione is when we tend to dress a cipolla (like an onion, in layers) and be ready for anything. But it can...

2 kinds of prepositions and articles combined

it often means "some." In short, it's a way to talk about an imprecise quantity of something.   What's different from...

Che ne so: Let's take it apart

Caption   But che does more. Here is a lesson about using che to say things with simplicity,...

I Mezzi: What are they?

di persone e veicoli. The street is a long and broad, suitable for the circulation of people...

Metaphorically speaking: aria (air)

metaphor of fumo (smoke) but we'll look at those in another lesson.     Campato in aria For this metaphor, it...

E vorrei vedere you're darn right

murder, so when his detective gives him a report, he is not at all surprised.  Sulle lenzuola non sono state rinvenute...

Pronunciation tips for the letter E

focus on the vowel, E.    We'll talk a little bit about this vowel from an English speaker's point of view, but the truth...

50 good-to know adjectives part 5

than physically, someone with a great personality, and a warm smile. More about simpatico here. E poi il cuoco è...

Using suffixes for emphasis

thought I did. Why does she say calduccio? And is it a noun or an adjective? I might have been too shy...

50 Italian good-to-know adjectives part 4 - emotions

Play Caption   37) stufo (fed up, sick and tired) This is a great adjective to have in your toolbox,...

50 good-to-know Italian adjectives part 2 — negatives

same way. We use brutto to talk about a movie we didn’t like, or something that...

50 good-to-know adjectives, part 3 — size and strength

If you use grosso, you are talking about size, and might be implying they are also grasso...

2 basic verbs: essere (to be) and avere (to have)

English the verb is "to be." That's a quirk. In Italian, you have an age and in English, you are an age.    The...

3 bothersome synonyms: disturbo, fastidio, noia

to bother), literally, "to give bother."    When a health worker is about to give you an injection, he or she might say, Questo...

The fine line between adjectives and nouns

site, to that bastard of a construction supervisor and I'd throw a bunch of punches at him. Captions 3-5, La Ladra EP. 7...

Nouns and verbs that go together

then, Sunday he had planned to plant a new vineyard at the Sassi farm. Caption 34, Il Commissario...