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Stories, tips, and insights about Italian language and culture.
La Prima Destinazione
I'm neither an expert on Torino nor a travel agent, but it is my town and I love it, so if we were to go to Turin for a week (hopefully soon), I would like to take you to see so many beautiful places.
Discovering Torino
I was born in Torino, but this is not an enough good reason to be in love with a town and to recommend all my students, friends and family to visit it. Many of them, my husband included, look at me in
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Benvenuti alla sezione 'I modi di dire italiani'
Idioms (modi di dire in italiano) are essential parts of any language. They are ingrained in people's history, culture and life and they reflect the way we perceive and express reality through our lan
Piantala!
Piantala! This is very funny. Many of you know that we have the verbo piantare which means to plant. La is an object pronoun and stands for it. So, literally, it means: plant it! We actually use it wh
BUONO come il PANE
Sapete come si dice in italiano AS GOOD AS GOLD? Si dice così... Marco è gentile, disponibile (available), generoso... allora, è proprio BUONO COME IL PANE!
DUE PIEDI in UNA SCARPA
DUE PIEDI in UNA SCARPA Avete mai avuto due piedi in una scarpa?? Would you be comfortable with 2 feet in one shoe? Let's say that the guy in the picture, Marco, should choose a girlfriend, but he can
Torniamo a scuola!!
Ciao a tutti studenti ed amici dell'italiano, We are going to start our Italian courses very soon at the College of Commerce and I'm happy to tell you that we're introducing new classes and new activi
Want to go to Italy with small children...
A few months ago a student and friend asked me where would be suitable to go on holidays in Italy for a family with small children. I told her that two years ago we did a house swap with an Italian fa
Obliterate, validate, timbrate, il biglietto, but DO IT!
Obliterate, validate, timbrate, il biglietto, but DO IT! I don't know if other countries have this rule, but in Italy it is compulsory to validate (obliterare, validare or timbrare are the Italian ver
How to Turbocharge our Memory (part 1)
How can we make our working memory more effective and how can we pass an item from working memory to long term memory?