It’s widely known that Italy and food are strongly interrelated. There isn’t one single Italian woman that isn’t able to cook a delicious meal, even the ones who say that are terrible cooks. So, it seems pretty logical that Italians have created an entire special vocabulary dedicated to cooking. Knowing Italian cooking terms is essential …
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Do you like Italian hard cheese?
You can’t think about Italy without thinking also about its food. Two of the things that make Italian food so great are both the high quality and the variety of its products. Today I’d like to talk to you about Italian hard cheese. Indeed, in Italy there is a great variety of cheeses, and many …
Learn Italian faster – Italian vocabulary tips
Learning a new language can be frustrating. Indeed, the more a language is different from our native language, the more it will usually take us time to learn it properly. Sometimes difficulties concern pronounciation and intonation, sometimes they concern grammar, and sometimes vocabulary. If you’re a native English speaker – or can speak English quite …
Italian love stories – Paolo and Francesca
Saint Valentine is the day when romantic love is celebrated all around the world. History, literature, cinema, theater offer many examples of love stories. One of my favourite love stories ever told is that of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone with the wind. However, this is an American love story and, unfortunately, at …
Let’s learn Italian pronominal verbs
In Italian there is a group of verbs called pronominal verbs. Italian pronominal verbs are verbs that change their meaning when combined with pronominal particles – ci, ne, la – or with reflexive pronouns. Sometimes this change is small, some others it’s rather deep. So, today you’re going to learn seven very common Italian pronominal …
