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Il Corpo in Italiano pt. 2 Posted by on Feb 5, 2021

Il corpo, i movimenti, e qualche espressione pt. 2 – The body, the movements, and some expressions pt. 2 A continuation from last week… please add any verbs, expressions or more body parts in the comments. Of course this isn’t an exhaustive list. 🙂 _________________________________________________________________________________ Il petto – chest  tossire – to cough dolore al…

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Il Corpo in Italiano pt. 1 Posted by on Jan 29, 2021

Il corpo, i verbi, e qualche espressione – The body, verbs, and some expressions Some body vocabulary, as well as some verbs and expressions associated with that body part. If you know of any other vocabulary words, comment them below!   la testa – head annuire – to nod/shake girare – to turn riempire la testa…

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Units of Measurement Posted by on Jan 22, 2021

Oggi, una richiesta da un lettore! Grazie mille! Today, a request from a reader! Thanks a lot! Le unità di misura in Italia – Units of measurement in Italy Praticamente tutte le unità di misura sono differenti in Italia rispetto a quelle utilizzate negli Stati Uniti. Noi americani non ci siamo adeguati al sistema metrico decimale… e…

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Let’s Rrrroll our R’s! Posted by on Jan 15, 2021

Ciao a tutti! I have never talked about la pronuncia italiana with all of you, so I thought it could be fun to discover together how to pronounce a trilled ‘R’, or if you want to get really tecnico  – a voiced alveolar trill.    If you have been struggling with this, just know that it doesn’t…

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Time to say addio to 2020 Posted by on Dec 30, 2020

Buongiorno!  Finalmente. Siamo arrivati alla fine di 2020. Finally. We have arrived to the end of 2020. There have been plenty of alti e bassi (highs and lows) but I am sure that I speak for us all when I bid it addio! Let’s give it as affettuoso (warm) of a goodbye as we can…

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Le Festività Italiane Posted by on Dec 18, 2020

Le festività italiane Buongiorno a tutti e ben ritrovati! Oggi vi parlerò di un tema molto caro agli italiani: le festività durante l’anno. Molte di queste feste sono in prevalenza di matrice religiosa, altre invece sono legate ad avvenimenti storici che hanno coinvolto l’Italia ed il suo popolo  Quali sono i cosiddetti giorni festivi, cioè…

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Le espressioni idiomatiche con il cibo Posted by on Dec 11, 2020

Le espressioni idiomatiche con il cibo – Idiomatic expressions with food Le espressioni idiomatiche are essential parts of learning and understanding a language. They are informal phrases that typically have a meaning different from the meaning of the actual words. Often they don’t even make sense at all. Per esempio in inglese si dice “go…

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