How to write a formal (or informal) email in Italian
You may have been faced with the situation that you need to write a letter or an email in Italian to your Italian professor, your tour guide in Italy or an Italian Language School, and you don’t know where to start. So you switch to English, the lingua franca. You shouldn’t, because writing a letter […]
15 well-known Italian sayings and how to use them
You speak Italian well enough, but you are a smart learner who is looking for the next challenge and want to perfect her Italian fluency and sound like a native? Start to incorporate recurring Italian sayings into your daily vocabulary! Some Italian sayings have sharp cultural or regional bounds, and so it is difficult to […]
The best Italian TV shows on Netflix
Have Fun Getting hooked on an Italian TV show and movies is a brilliant idea not only to improve your Italian listening skills and expand your Italian vocabulary like never before, but also to get exposure to the Italian culture, different accents, and slang. Watching authentic Italian content is by far one of the most […]
How to master the Italian imperfetto
WHAT IS THE IMPERFETTO IN ITALIAN? Italian uses two tenses to talk about the past : the passato prossimo (present perfect) and imperfetto (imperfect). Most non-romance languages do not make the difference, this is why using correctly the imperfetto in Italian can be tricky. Not to mention that, most Italian grammar is not very clear […]
A short guide on how to use correctly BENE, BRAVO, BELLO and BUONO
IN A NUTSHELL… 💡Bravo is used just with people. 💡Buono refers to the interior qualities of things or people. 💡Bello refers to the exterior qualities of things or people. 💡Bene is used just with verbs. WHEN TO USE BENE IN ITALIAN Bene is often misused. One of the most recurring mistakes in Italian is […]
BELLO and BEL in Italian
Everybody knows that quello means that and bello in Italian means nice, however you may have noticed that, sometimes, bello and quello, are used in a different shape. In fact, it is not rare that bello becomes bel or begli or bei and quello becomes quel or quegli or quei. If you ended up here, it is because you are not sure when using bel instead of […]
