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 …
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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 …
Learn the Italian past tense Passato Prossimo
Talking about past actions is very important in every language. Italians use many different tenses to talk about past events. In this article, you’re going to learn the Italian past tense passato prossimo. Knowing passato prossimo is very useful since it’s one of the most used past tenses in Italian. Let’s start learning when and …
Home remedies: my Italian grandma’s remedies
You might know that Italians pay a lot of attention to their health, so much so that sometimes they can even seem to be exaggerating to foreigners – Have a look at Italians and health problems – Il colpo d’aria. The fact is that if you grow up in Italy you are generally surrounded by …
