8 great Italian YouTubers to improve your listening skills
Videos can be some of the best resources for learning Italian: you hear how the words are spoken, helping you to improve your pronunciation and your listening skills. Of course, it goes without saying, it is not when you are listening something in the background while doing your cleanings on Saturday morning that you will […]
How to compliment someone in Italian
If you want to compliment someone on their achievements, you can say: (Che) Bravo! Good job!Bravissimo! Excellent job! If you want to compliment somebody in the specific circumstances of a wedding or graduation or a promotion at work, you can easily say: Congratulazioni! Congratulations!Complimenti! Congratulations! and you could add depending on the context: Congratulazioni te lo […]
Fermare and smettere: what’s the difference?
Misusing or swapping the verbs fermare and smettere is one of the most frequent errors students of Italian as a second language di and I understand why. The confusion is drove by the fact that both verbs, in English, have only one translation: stopping. Instead, Italians have two different verbs to indicate the action of stopping. One verb is […]
How to use correctly the adverbs già and ancora?
Let’s start from già, which has two different meanings. GIÀ= ALREADY The most common use of già is when is used with the sense of already. In the vast majority of times, già comes together with a passato prossimo, just like in English and is always placed between the auxiliary verb and the past participle Hai già fatto […]
What does QUELLO and BELLO have in common?
Everybody knows that quello means that and bello means nice , however you might have noticed that, from time to time, quello and bello are in used in a different shape, like bel e quel or begli and quegli How come? Well, let’s start from quello First thing first, you should be able to distinguish when […]
5 things you need to know about Possessives in Italian
1. The key difference with English In English possessives are never used with articles. Instead, in Italian, they are always accompanied with articles (except for some cases I will touch upon below). The possessive adjectives agree in terms of gender and number with the nouns they are proceeding la mia borsa il mio libro la […]
