If you are a non-Italian living in Italy, a question you might wish to ask other foreigner nationals or travellers you meet is Parli italiano? which means Do you speak Italian? Parli Italiano? Parli is the second-person singular of the verb parlare (to speak / talk) whereas italiano means Italian. Note that the names of …
The generic name for a baked sweet that is round in shape and made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter and eggs is torta (feminine, plural: torte). Although cake is the most common translation in English, it may also denote a pie. Some different kinds of sweet torte people enjoy include: Ho mangiato tre …
Tired of saying the formal greeting arrivederci when parting ways with someone? Want to transform it into something more casual and friendly? Then why not try saying A presto! (See you soon!) instead! Let’s break it down into its component parts: a A is a preposition that means to or at depending on the context. …
The Italian word for music is the similar sounding musica (feminine, plural: musiche). Both words can be traced back to the Greek mousikē (tekhnē) which means (art) of the Muses. Like the English word, musica is used to talk about not only the combination of melodic vocals and sounds itself, but also the art of …
The verb to walk in English usually translates as camminare in Italian. It derives from the noun cammino (walk, journey) which entered the language from the Latin camminus. Learn with our video Camminare is a regular-first conjugation verb finishing with -are, which means it conjugates in the following manner in the present tense: io camminoI …
The verb to work translates as lavorare in Italian. It comes from the Latin verb laborare and shares the same origin as the words labor and laboratory in English. Learn with our video and podcast The video is also available on our YouTube channel. The podcast episode can be found on Podbean, Google Podcast, Apple …