Heather Broster
In today’s day and age, YouTube can be used for a wide variety of purposes. You can watch movies, listen to music, or laugh at silly cat videos. Educators use YouTube to show educational videos in class. Fans use YouTube to live stream events, including concerts or other performances. Gamers might use YouTube to help …
The Italian word for airplane is aeroplano. It derives from the Latin aer (air) and planus (plane) via the French aéroplane (which has since been replaced by avion). It is a masculine noun starting with a vowel, so it takes the following definite and indefinite articles: Contrary to popular belief, the everyday term for airplane, …
Easter is just days away and that means it’s time to paint some eggs, spend time with the people you love, and of course, brush up on your Italian Easter vocabulary if you haven’t done so already! 😉 Perhaps your goal is to be able to say a few phrases when you call or write …
All the world’s languages are made up of phonemes, or in other words, unique units of sound that help us distinguish one word from another. A letter in any given alphabet may represent one or more phonemes. For example, the way the English letter A sounds in the word ‘apple’ is completely different to how …
Ricetta is the word Italians use for both recipe, as in a list of instructions for preparing a dish, and prescription, as in the instructions written by a doctor so that a patient may receive a medicine or treatment. Curiously, in the 16th century, the word recipe in late Middle English used to refer to …
Have you ever listened to a K-Pop song? You know it’s Korean. It sounds Korean. But how do you know for sure? You don’t speak Korean. Are you absolutely certain that you are listening to Korean? I imagine that is the same feeling many Italians had in the 1970s when popular Italian singer Adriano Celentano …