The Best Places to Visit in Italy for the First Time

I luoghi da non perdere durante il tuo primo viaggio in Italia After years of dreaming and saving, there is one final thing you need to do to prepare for your first trip to Italy: plan your itinerary. Italy is a small country, but surprisingly incredibly diverse. The architecture, landscape, culture, and even the local …

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Our Guide to 20 Common Italian Gestures (Explained with Video Examples)

The famous anthropologist Desmond Morris was once quoted as saying that “for human beings the hands are what the baton is for an orchestra director, guiding the rhythm and meaning of the words”. With this metaphor in mind, we can safely say that Italians, with all their non-verbal gestures, body language and signs, are “the …

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The Best Pizzerias in Naples, Italy

Le migliori pizzerie di Napoli Naples is known for being the homeland of pizza. The culinary symbol of the Neapolitan city has historical traditions that have been handed down from generation to generation. In fact, Neapolitan families have been preserving and transmitting this ancient gastronomic art to their descendants for centuries. Napoli è conosciuta per …

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6 Italian Phrases to Learn in Time for Thanksgiving

We all know that Italians in Italy do not celebrate Thanksgiving (il Giorno del Ringraziamento). However, the same cannot be said for the millions of Italian Americans and Canadians who have embraced the holiday wholeheartedly and turned it into their own. If you are an Italian living in the United States, or an American who …

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Is Duolingo Good for Italian? – My One-Year Review

Although I have always loved Italian, learning the language really became important to me after my daughter met and married an Italian man while working in Torino, Italy. When we first met him his knowledge of the English language was already impressive and since living here in the U.K., he has achieved fluency. At the …

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