Archive for February, 2018
La Bella Addormentata – Part 5 Posted by Serena on Feb 8, 2018
Here’s the final chapter of my Italian translation of La Bella Addormentata (Sleeping Beauty). I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This certainly isn’t everyday spoken Italian, and it was great to have an opportunity to use a style and vocabulary that I wouldn’t normally use. Part 5. Then…
Making Comparisons In Italian Posted by Geoff on Feb 5, 2018
When learning how to make comparisons students are usually taught to use più (more) or meno (less) and the preposition di (than). But is this always the case? Let’s find out. Here are some examples that follow the rule outlined above: La Spezia è più grande di Pontremoli = La Spezia is bigger than Pontremoli…
Tuscan Villa For Sale – An Exercise Posted by Geoff on Feb 2, 2018
So far in my series of blogs on the Italian article we’ve looked at l’articolo determinativo (the definite article: the), l’articolo indeterminativo (the indefinite article: a/an) and le preposizioni articolate (preposition/article combinations: on the, in the, from the, etc.). Here’s an opportunity to put your learning into practice. In chapter 1 I asked you to…