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Instantly Boost Your Italian with these Commonly-used Words Transport ✈️ ◉ La macchina ➙ car◉ L’autobus ➙ bus◉ Il treno ➙ train◉ L’aereo ➙ plane◉ La moto ➙ motorbike◉ La bicicletta ➙ bicycle◉ Il motorino ➙ scooter◉ La barca ➙ boat◉ Il traghetto ➙ ferry◉ Il pickup ➙ truck Facciamo un giro in macchinaLet’s go […]
If you are here, it’s because you either really want to learn to speak Italian, or Italian is a language that you’re considering learning and just need that little extra nudge.. The reasons people have for wanting to learn this beautiful and romantic language are varied and many, but whatever the reason, it all comes […]
Vowels are the cornerstone of Italian. The Italian language is heavily vowel-centered and this is what gives it its lovely melodic sing-song sound that we all know and love. The Italian word for ‘vowel’ is actually VOCALE so you can see the relationship between vowels and ‘vocalizing’ because that is what we are actually doing […]
Italian consonants are more or less the same as English consonants but the differences are distinct and consistent. Here we have included the consonant letters that have two different pronunciations depending on the vowel that follows, as well as the consonants that are pronounced differently altogether. You will then find 3 example words with audio […]
The pattern of syllable stress in Italian is not too dissimilar to English. Typically, the stress falls on the penultimate (second last) syllable or the antepenultimate (third last) syllable depending on the type of word. INFORMAZIONE → information ANDIAMO! → Let’s go! MANGIO → I eat DIVERTENTE → fun BIOLOGICO→ biological MATEMATICA → math Anytime […]
Don’t let all this technical language overwhelm you! You already use and differentiate between these concepts in English without even realizing it. When we talk about Articles, we are referring to the words that mean: ◉ ‘the’◉ ‘a’ or ‘an’ As an English speaker, you instinctively know when to use either. But did you know […]
Being able to describe people, things and places is part of what makes human interaction so colorful and expressive. We all have impressions of things being ‘beautiful’, ‘funny’, or ‘disgusting’, and when speaking Italian, we need to know how to express the same ideas, don’t we? Adjectives in Italian differ from English in a three […]
The Italian personal pronouns are how we refer to people without using names. They work more or less in the same way as English with just a couple of important points to mention. Here are the Italian Personal Pronouns: IO → ITU → youLUI → heLEI → sheLEI → you (formal and polite)NOI → weVOI […]
Using verbs correctly in Italian is one of the main challenges for English speakers when they first start learning Italian. This is due to the fact that Italian has quite an extensive system of verb conjugation. This frightens a lot of English speakers as it all seems so complicated and hard to remember, but it […]
As it would turn out, the most common and essential verbs in Italian also happen to be the most irregular verbs. Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t follow the consistent pattern of conjugation that we have already outlined in our previous post. Many of the Present Tense Suffixes have similarities to their regular counterparts, such […]
Instantly Boost Your Italian with these Commonly-used Words Nationalities ◉ Italiano ➙ Italian◉ Americano ➙ American◉ Inglese ➙ English◉ Australiano ➙ Australian◉ Canadese ➙ Canadian◉ Neozelandese ➙ New Zealander◉ Irlandese ➙ Irish◉ Scozzese ➙ Scottish◉ Tedesco ➙ German◉ Brasiliano ➙ Brazilian As nationalities are a characteristic of a person, anytime you refer to a person’s […]
Learning to Count in Italian is Much Easier Than You Think Learning how to say numbers is one of the first things that we do when learning a language because we use them all the time! We count objects, we count days, weeks, months and years, we use dates, percentages, prices, and we say our […]
