Heather Broster
The other day, my friend Jean – who runs a series of Italian language immersion trips in Italy – admitted that she was still struggling with the correct usage of the conjunction finché in Italian. Surprised that I hadn’t already covered this word, I promised her I’d make it a priority, so here we are! …
In Italian, if you want to say that something is easy to do, you might say è facile / semplice (it’s easy), è molto facile / semplice (it’s very easy), or è facilissimo / semplicissimo (it’s very easy). All these expressions are just fine, but if you want to go for something a bit more …
Whenever you want to say that you are happy to take care of an issue, or deal with a problem, consider using the very useful Italian expression Ci penso io! Let’s break it down bit by bit. Ci penso io! I’ll take care of it / deal with it / see to it! Let’s start …
During our most recent trip to Montepulciano, a word that came up multiple times during our wine tasting session at Cantina Crociani was grappolo, the word for a bunch of grapes, but also other things that come in groups as we’ll discover below. grappolo bunch / cluster Grappolo is a masculine noun that takes the …
If there is one thing that stops us from becoming more confident speakers of Italian, it’s that ever-looming sense of doubt in our own abilities. Doubt in Italian can be translated as dubbio, which should be easy to remember given how similar they look and sound. dubbio doubt The origin of dubbio is straightforward – …
If you’ve ever been faced with a difficult or seemingly unresolvable problem, you could define it in Italian as una bella gatta da pelare, or literally, a beautiful female cat to skin. avere una bella gatta da pelare to have a difficult problem to resolve So, where does this expression come from? Though its exact …