Heather Broster
Imagine a workplace scenario where there’s a looming deadline, and everyone is scrambling to finish a critical project. However, one employee – let’s call him Marco – is sitting at his desk, meticulously organising paperclips by colour. In Italian, you could metaphorically describe Marco’s engagement in a pointless and trivial activity as pettinare le bambole, …
We may vary in age, gender, and background, but one thing unites us all: when nature calls, we’ve got to answer! Yet, for learners of a new language, knowing how to ask where the toilet is can be tricky. Some expressions are polite, while others are considered slang and a bit too blunt. If you …
The other day, I accidentally left a plastic jug on the hot stove, and as you can imagine, it melted onto the burner within minutes. Although cleaning up the mess was quite a hassle, it did inspire me to write about the adjective fuso, which translates to melted, molten or liquefied. fuso melted / molten …
One of the most common words used to refer to a person’s look, gaze or glance in Italian is sguardo. sguardo gaze / look Sguardo comes from the archaic verb sguardare, which in turn is derived from guardare with the addition of the s- prefix. It is a masculine noun but given that it begins …
Today, we’re delving into a word that lies at the heart of human communication. Whether referring to the physical organ itself (tongue) or the words it generates through articulation (language), la lingua is indispensable for expressing and exchanging our thoughts effectively! lingua tongue / language Before we begin, let’s take a quick look at its …
Because I’ll be turning 40 at the beginning of next year, I recently started going to the gym – or palestra in Italian – five days a week. Call it my crisi di mezza età (mid-life crisis), but I feel so much better for it. I have more energia (energy) to chase around my four-year-old, …