Your night table is about to collapse under its own weight. You keep stacking Italian book on top of Italian book because you are going to read them. One day. They won’t be furniture. One day. I suppose this is how you see it: reading a book in Italian (from the first page to the last) […]
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Do you ever think of objects as masculine or feminine, like chair, cloud, flower, sea? If you speak Italian you won’t notice anything strange. If you speak English, you probably won’t have a clue on how to know if an Italian word is masculine or feminine. The gender of a word is just a fact
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Many would think that, in order to speak a language correctly, your grammar has to be impeccable. I was one of them, and to a certain extent I still am. I have studied 4 languages so far, and for years I have tormented myself with perfect grammar. What would people think of me if I
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Listen to this blog post (18 min) Omg! I have spent months studying the language and now that I’m in Italy I can’t understand a single word, how is that even possible? I’ll have to nod, pretending I agree with everything when in reality I have no idea what they are talking about! Don’t bother
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Listen to this blog post: Social relationships work because there is a mutual knowledge of certain elements like status and age, that require different degrees of politeness. The way we express politeness and formality in Italian is clearly marked by the use of tu and lei. Being able to discern when it is appropriate to
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