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…
La Bella Addormentata – Part 4 Posted by Serena on Jan 31, 2018
Here’s part 4 of my translation into Italian of La Bella Addormentata (Sleeping Beauty). Buona lettura! Part 4. Many a long year afterwards there came a king’s son into that country, and heard an old man tell how there should be a castle standing behind the hedge of thorns, and that there a beautiful enchanted…
Combining Articles With Prepositions Posted by Geoff on Jan 29, 2018
Once we understand how the articolo determinativo (‘the’ in English) works, we can take the next logical step and combine it with prepositions in order to create preposizioni articolate. In this blog we’ll find out how it’s done. What are prepositions? A preposition is a word that describes a relationship between other words in a…
The Italian Article – An Exercise. Posted by Geoff on Jan 26, 2018
Here’s a nice little exercise based on my two recent blogs about the Italian article. Buon divertimento! (have fun!) Complete the Italian version of the text below by inserting the missing articles. You may want to refer to the following blogs for guidance: How To Use The Italian Definite Article The Italian Indefinite Article N.B…
La Bella Addormentata – Part 3 Posted by Serena on Jan 24, 2018
We continue our translation into Italian of the famous Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale La Bella Addormentata (The Sleeping Beauty). Part 3. And this sleep fell upon the whole castle; the king and queen, who had returned and were in the great hall, fell fast asleep, and with them the whole court. E questo stesso sonno…