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Buon Anno! Have You Made Any New Year’s Resolutions?

by Alesha Allen | Wed, 12/30/2020 - 01:18

The new year is a great time to make some resolutions. I’d like to take some trips to Italy once it's safe to do so, spend more time with friends and family,…

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Forza, Resisti! How Italians Keep on Keeping On

by rebeccawinke | Thu, 07/30/2020 - 11:10

In a recent speech, Italy’s Health Minister Roberto Speranza shared his belief that the first half of 2020 has been the most difficult in the history of the…

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How Old Are You_ How to Express Age (Or Other States of Being) in Italian

by rebeccawinke | Thu, 07/02/2020 - 05:58

Expressing a state of being is one of the most important and fundamental uses of language. How you are feeling in a specific moment (hungry, cold, sad) and…

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Days of The Week in Italian

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 01/09/2020 - 16:13

A question my friends and I used to ask each other regularly when I lived in Italy was: what are you doing on Saturday evening? This would then spark a…

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Irregular Present Tense Verbs Ending in -Arre, -Orre and -Urre

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 11/21/2019 - 10:40

When you start learning Italian, you’re taught that there are three conjugations to Italian verbs: -are, -ere and -ire. But have you ever come across any verbs…

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Do We Need to Use the Subject Pronouns in Italian?

by Alesha Allen | Fri, 10/18/2019 - 03:37

Subject pronouns indicate the subject of a sentence, the person who is carrying out the verb. They take the place of nouns. You might refer to ‘my sister’ as ‘…

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Pronomi combinati in Italian

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 10/10/2019 - 08:37

There are many types of pronouns in Italian, today we’re going to look at direct and indirect pronouns and how you can combine them. Let’s start with direct…

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Tu or Lei? How to Use Formal and Informal in Italian

by Alesha Allen | Thu, 07/04/2019 - 11:53

We only have one way to say ‘you’ in English. Italian has both a formal you ‘Lei’ and an informal you: ‘tu’. Which one should you use when? This is a question…

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How to Form the Passive in Italian

by Alesha Allen | Fri, 03/29/2019 - 05:51

Introduction Today’s language lesson is about how to use the passive form in Italian. There are two forms of verbs: passive and active. An active verb form…

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Bellissimo! Going Over Absolute Superlatives

by Alesha Allen | Fri, 01/11/2019 - 02:38

I am sure you have heard the word ‘bellissimo’ (very beautiful) or ‘buonissimo’ (very good) in Italian. These -issimo endings are called absolute superlatives…