During the holidays one of my favourite activities is reading. I usually prefer romance books, generally with a dual-timeline, but I’m open to other genres too like thriller and fantasy books. I generally read these books in English, just to improve my English skills. If you like reading, and want to improve your Italian too, …
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Eight Italian sayings about food
New year’s Eve is approaching and there’s surely one thing Italians do well that night: eating. But, instead of giving you some recipes you can cook for New year’s Eve, I’m going to teach you some Italian sayings about food. BUONO COME IL PANE Let’s start with the first Italian idiomatic expression related to food: …
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 …
