Top Italian short stories for Beginners
6 GREAT ITALIAN SHORT STORIES FOR BEGINNERS 1. Amore a Cappuccino – beginners A0/A1 If you have learned Italian for a month or two, Amore and Cappuccino is the first short story you should read. This is an Italian short storybook for A0-A1 level. If you are an advanced beginner, you will find this book […]
The Italian comparatives: using CHE or DI
The Italian comparatives: using “CHE” or “DI” The Italian comparative expresses how to say MORE THAN, LESS THAN, THE SAME AS. We call comparativo di maggioranza: La casa di Maria è più grande di quella di Lucia – Maria’s house is bigger than Lucia’s We call comparativo di minoranza: La casa di Lucia è meno grande di […]
Why getting an Italian Language Certification is a great idea and how to do it
The Italian Language Certifications and why it’s a great idea to earn them If you are a big fan of the lingua di Dante and you have already achieved a certain level of Italian, you might want to prove your worth or, maybe, set yourself a higher goal to keep your motivation high. In both cases, validating […]
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ITALIAN THROUH ITALIAN FILMS
Today I’ve invited a fellow Italian Language Coach Moreno Pontoriero to write his thoughts about the importance of using movies as an essential and exciting tool to enhance your Italian language experience. Moreno is bilingual in Italian and German, who lives in Liechtenstein and does a terrific job in inspiring his audience to learn Italian through movies and […]
Don’t learn harder, learn SMARTER
Don’t learn harder, learn SMARTER There are two types of people: bad finishers and good finishers. Most of us are good starters when it comes to learning a foreign language and terrible finishers. WHY? It is not a lack of talent. It is not a lack of time. It is not a lack of strategy. […]
Is conversation what you need to improve your Italian? Maybe not…
IS CONVERSATION ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME FLUENT IN ITALIAN? I don’t think so. Being an experienced language coach and a polyglot, I have concluded over the years that speaking is not necessarily what you lead you to fluency in Italian or any foreign languages. Writing, instead, it is. Let’s see why. How writing in […]
