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It’s All In The Accent – Part 2. Posted by Serena on May 21, 2014
Last week in It’s All In The Accent, we took a look at how we use accents in written Italian, and how they can completely change the meaning of some words. Astute students of Italian will have noticed though that we use two different accents: ` accento grave (grave accent) used in open sounds such…
It’s All In The Accent Posted by Serena on May 14, 2014
Last week Geoff wrote a silly blog about tè (tea), which played on the fact that some Italian words change their meaning depending on whether they use an accent or not, e.g. tè (tea), te (you). Let’s have a look at a few more words that fall into this category, plus some other cases in…