italian language

It’s hard to argue with the fact that Italian cuisine is considered one of the best in the world, and while choosing what to eat during your Italian holidays…

It’s not your first time in Italy; you’ve traveled the whole country and have seen everything. It seems like you know “Il Bel Paese” (the beautiful country)…

After a full year of almost no travel, everything is finally starting to open up. Italy has opened its borders to most countries and many tourists are expected…

My sons have grown up in Italy but are completely bilingual in English (ahem, American English, that is) and Italian. When they were younger, this process of…

One of the pillars of daily Italian life can also be one of the most harrowing experiences for the uninitiated, a veritable minefield of potential cultural…

I have two teenagers in my house, so I hear slang (in both English and Italian) a lot and I won’t lie: I can’t keep up with most of it. Slang is the spice of…

Just like the umlaut (those two dots over some vowels) in German and the tilde (the squiggly line over the letter n) in Spanish, Italian has a couple of letter…

Usually, coming to the end of something is, if not sad, a bit bittersweet. But nothing has been usual about the past 12 months and I think we can all agree…

It’s Friday, so it must be time for a new government in Italy.  That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but Italy has had more than 60 changes of government (il…

Language lovers rejoice! Florence, already home to some of the most famous art collections in the world, will soon host the Museo della lingua italiana—a…