It started with a WhatsApp message from my daughter. I was aware that she was collaborating with the tour company, Vero Viaggio, by bringing along 10 followers of Daily Italian Words and that her first trip would take them to Montepulciano, Tuscany in October. The message stated that someone had dropped out at the last …
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 …
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 …
When you’re visiting Italy, one of the must-do activities (besides indulging in an embarrassing amount of gelato) is definitely sipping on some local wine. But honestly, the wine talk can get a little intimidating—DOC this, amabile that… it’s like a whole new language! So, to save you from the awkward smile-and-nod routine when the waiter …
Diminutives and augmentatives are everywhere in casual, spoken Italian, so if you want to sound more natural or finally understand those fast-paced movie dialogues, they’re definitely worth getting familiar with. Basically, they’re formed by adding a suffix to the end of a word to make it sound smaller, bigger, cuter, or more intense. But it’s …