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 …
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Five common Italian words misused by English speakers
Every culture uses some words that belong to another culture. In Italian, for example, there is the word mouse, déjà-vu, fiesta, etc. These words can retain their original meaning or they can acquire a whole new one. Let’s take the word pile, for example. Did you know that Italians generally wear a pile in Winter? …
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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 …
