False Friends - part 4

| Tue, 09/14/2010 - 05:55
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Actually – in fact – in reality.

Attualmente does not mean “actually”. It means “currently”.

If you want to say “actually”, you say in realtà.

Infatti does not usually mean “in fact”. It means “Indeed” or “That's right”.

To say “in fact”, you again say
in realtà.

In the following video:


a scene from the film "Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina", here, they try to talk in various languages with a negative result!