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What Is Italiano Mordi e Fuggi?

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Do you remember Pausa Caffè?

Back in February, I launched a challenge to help people overcome their fear of speaking Italian. It was called Pausa Caffè and it required participants to answer an Italian question a day for a month.

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A Week in Friuli Venezia Giulia: What We Did and What We Saw

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At the beginning of August, we spent a week in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the easternmost region in Italy and one of the country’s most ignored ones, especially by tourists. 

The fact that Friuli is not a popular tourist destination is a real pity because the region is so nice that it really deserves to be more famous but it is also a blessing for those who visit it because Friuli is beautiful, authentic, genuine, and not crowded at all.

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[Italian Books] Nives by Sacha Naspini

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One of my favorite Italian books of 2020 has been translated into English and I couldn’t be happier!

I am happy because the English translation of the book means that I can recommend it in this section of my blog. In fact, as you may know if you have been reading my blog for a while, when I recommend an Italian book I always make sure it is available in English too.

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[Family Recipes] Zucchini and pumpkin flower fritters

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When it comes to holidays and festivities, in my family everything revolves around tradition.

We have been celebrating Christmas in the same way and with more or less the same food for years. Every year we gather around the same table, with the same people, and we eat more or less the same dishes.

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Estate Italiana: Some Snapshots of An Italian Summer

If you want to read this article in Italian, you can find a downloadable bilingual PDF file in
Your Italian Toolbox, the page where I upload all language-learning materials, under the section Miscellaneous (You can access the page by subscribing to my newsletter)

This is the last post before the holidays, and I wanted it to be super fun and summery. 

I love all the seasons, but I definitely have a preference for summer, and I want to use this post to celebrate the uniqueness of summer in Italy. Summer has some common traits everywhere, but there are some peculiar things that belong to a specific country only, so today I’d love to list the Italian ones.

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