Italy is one of the most visited countries in the world. But if you want to sprinkle your Italian holiday with a little bit of magic, then you should definitely visit Italiy during Christmas. In fact, not only can you still visit all the Italian places full of history, and avoid the majority of the …
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Seven tips to improve your Italian pronunciation
Improving your Italian pronunciation is one of the most difficult tasks when learning this wonderful language. In fact, it’s not just a matter of understanding and mastering the Italian sounds but also of applying the right prosodic features – intonation, rhytm, accent, etc. This, if you want to sound like a native Italian. If you …
Italian words: Let’s learn some Italian ski terms
Winter is approaching fast in Italy and with it cold weather. When Winter comes, many Italians can’t wait for the snow to come. Unfortunately, thanks to global warming, nowadays in Italy you can usually find the snow only at a certain height. So snow lovers generally book what in Italy is called la settimana bianca …
Tricky words in Italian: Italian homographs
If you’re learning Italian, you have surely noticed that Italian has also some tricky words called homographs. Homographs are words with the same spelling but that carry different meanings. In Italian there are two types of homographs: 1. Words that have both the same spelling and the same pronunciation. 2. Words that have the same …
Places where famous Italian poets rest
Italy is one of the major tourist destinations for many different reasons. People come to Italy for its buildings, food, museums, landscapes, and so on. However, sometimes we forget that Italy is also a land where very famous Italian poets were born, some of the most famous being Giacomo Leopardi, Dante Alighieri, Virgil, etc. If …
