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Travel vocabulary - 1: Trains and buses

the words we might need when getting around a new place. But depending on where we are and who we are talking with, we might...

Expressions this week

nine o'clock and today, this morning, Fedez. And precisely because our balls are spinning, we were talking about Fedez. Captions 39-41, Liberi tutti EP2 Ci...

3 verbs that end in -are

mentitore, pallone gonfiato, pieno di sé. You are wicked, a liar, a hot-air balloon, full of yourself....

Tiptoeing into the participio presente

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

The verb aspettare and its nuances

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

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

colleagues decide to switch places, they sign a form, and if there are no problems, but serious huh, like, I...

I Mezzi: What are they?

by car. There is very limited parking and the streets are narrow. One solution is to have a small bus that shuttles people back and...

Metaphorically speaking: aria (air)

Metaphors might be fun and easy when they are in one's own language, but they may...

E vorrei vedere you're darn right

Manara has already figured some things out about a murder, so when his detective gives him...

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

you have work to do and you are having trouble staying calm and collected. Irritable is a good equivalent. Stressed out works, too. See...

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

to deny, to negate) but here, we are talking about the talent of a person. Sono negato per la cucina. (I’m...

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

mean “adult.” 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)

quirk. In Italian, you have an age and in English, you are an age.    The second thing we might notice...

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

use the word correctly.    If we talk about an old person in Italian, we can use...

Nouns and verbs that go together

there are plenty of verbs like this and they are pretty easy to learn.   The words we...

50 good-to-know Italian adjectives part 1 — positives

a feminine noun, so even if we are talking about a boy or man, the adjective describing persona...

Business vocabulary and expressions part 3

Previously, we looked at ways to talk about going to work and different positions at the workplace. In Part...

1 important way to translate the verb "to get" in Italian

using the future tense of venire. Marika and Anna are about to take us to un panificio (a bakery). Vi verrà fame eh! You're going...