If there is bread on the table, I can’t help myself – I’m going to eat it all, right down to the very last crumb. I’ve been a bread lover since childhood and when I was 3 years old, I refused to eat anything else. Living in different countries has allowed me to taste different …
English speakers are taught from an early age that putting more than one negative in a sentence is grammatically incorrect. In fact, I’m sure my English teacher would have had a fit had I ever written “I don’t have nothing,” in one of my essays! Not so in Italian! In the language of love, it …
Art is the uniquely human skill of being able to consciously create something beautiful or meaningful by employing skill and imagination. Typically visual but also auditory and theatrical, art can assume many forms including paintings, sculptures, music, architecture and more. In Italian, all you need to do is add an e to the end of …
The Italian word for rainbow is arcobaleno (plural: arcobaleni). It is composed of two words: arco (arch) and baleno (flash, flare). arcobaleno rainbow As a masculine noun that begins with a vowel, it takes the following definite and indefinite articles: l’arcobalenoun arcobaleno gli arcobalenidegli arcobaleni Ho visto un arcobaleno dopo il temporale. I saw a …
The word faccia (plural: facce) in Italian is the most widely used term for face. faccia face Here are its definite and indefinite articles: la facciauna faccia le faccedelle facce Mi sono lavato la faccia stamattina. I washed my face this morning. Below are the main componants that make up a human face: It is …
If you’ve just met someone new in Italy, one of the first things you’ll want to find out in order to avoid an embarrassing situation in the future is their name! (That is, if you manage to remember it, of course!) The most common way to ask What is your name? in Italian in an …