When you start learning a language everything seems difficult at the beginning. With the time your brain starts to understand the structures of the new language you’re learning and things seem much easier. However, there are some words that remain quite difficult to learn for every speaker: false friends. For English speaker, the most difficult …
Italian vocabulary
How to talk about death in Italian
Each one of us would do anything to ward off bad luck. However, sometimes despite all our efforts bad things happen. It’s the case of death, morte, for example. Death might be the only thing that is certain in life but it is also one of the most prolific topics in terms of language expressions. …
Common expressions to talk about sleep in Italian
Have you ever felt that despite all your efforts your language knowledge doesn’t want to hear about improving? The reality is that many factors can affect language learing, among others motivation, stress, your native language, etc. According to research also sleep has a great role in the way we learn. So, in this article you’ll …
Ci in Italian: Some common Italian expressions
All the people learning Italian are usually interested in understanding all the meanings of the curious Italian word ci. Indeed, ci in Italian can really have several different meanings and mastering its use can be sometimes difficult. If you’re interested in learning all the meanings the Italian particle ci can have, have a look at …
Confusing Italian words borrowed from English
A couple of weeks ago I talked about the fact that some Italian words can have a completely different meaning in other countries. Now, as I guess you know quite well, in Italian there are many English words like business, mission, mouse, computer, etc. Being able to use some English words in some contexts like …
