Valentina Nicastro
Sale looks identical in Italian and English, so it’s easy to assume it means the same thing in both language. But actually, its meanings couldn’t be more different! sale First of all, the grammar: sale is a masculine noun, and its plural form is sali (but we generally use it only in certain contexts, and …
So, you’re heading to Italy and need to figure out how to catch a taxi without resorting to wild hand gestures and hopeful pointing? In this article, you’ll find some handy phrases and expressions to help you communicate with taxi drivers—things like how to give the directions, tell them that you want to get off, …
Sometimes a polite No, grazie (No, thanks) just isn’t enough. Maybe it’s a street vendor who refuses to give up, a pushy scammer trying to sell you a “luxury” bag, or that one guy at the café who somehow mistakes your silence for interest. Whatever the case, you need a more effective way to make …
In Italian, danno can be a masculine noun (il danno in the singular form, i danni in the plural) or a verb. The trick to figuring out which one you’re dealing with is context, and especially the article: if you see il or un danno, you’re looking at a noun. No article, then it’s a …
The word notizia in Italian is all about knowing things, being informed, in the loop, or, as we say in Italy, sul pezzo (on top of things). notizia It’s a feminine noun (plural: notizie), and it comes from the Latin notus, meaning “known.” Here are its definite and indefinite articles: Here are the three main …
Songs can be incredibly helpful when learning Italian: they help you pick up grammar structures, introduce everyday expressions, and make you familiarise yourself with different accents. Plus, echoing the words of a good song is way more fun than memorising piles of verb tables and vocabulary lists, right? Today we’re going to dive into the …