11 fantastiche città da visitare nel Nord Italia (oltre a Venezia e Como) From Trieste to Pavia, here are some of the best Northern Italian cities to consider for your next trip to the Belpaese. Da Trieste a Pavia, ecco alcune delle più belle città del Nord Italia per il tuo prossimo viaggio nel Belpaese. …
As many people know, Italians gesticulate a lot and the gestures they make are never random, but have a very precise meaning. This habit seems to date back to when the Italian peninsula was divided into numerous states and different languages and dialects were spoken. Gestures became a sort of common language, a tool for …
Ever since I was a young girl, I remember being fascinated by those in my class who were able to speak more than one language. It seemed to me like a mystical power to which only a select few had access. My intense interest in languages didn’t end in primary school. Once in high school, …
Today we will look at some basic Italian house vocabulary, which is essential to improve your language skills. Here below you can find a list of the most important words and sentences related to the house (in Italian: casa). We will start from general vocabulary and then treat each room in detail, such as the kind of furniture, appliances, tools and objects can …
Halloween is just around the corner, so what better word to focus on than the adjective that best embodies the spirit of the holiday: scary. In Italian, there are five principal ways you can translate this word depending on the context. Let’s take a look at them now! 1. Pauroso Pauroso is one of two …
Verbs are a category of words that instead of indicating a thing or a quality such as a noun or an adjective, specify an action. The presence of verbs is recognised as what linguists call an absolute linguistic universal, or in other words, a pattern that exists across all languages. In the Italian language, some …