Italian speaking practice and grammar tutoring
Obviously, movies are not documentaries, so they offer only a fictionalized representation of life. However, they can still offer an insight into daily life or habits, ideas, and problems of a certain culture.
I am really happy to have Erica of Italian For A While, a company that offers immersive experiences in Italy, as a guest today! Her post is really useful because it is about the fear of speaking Italian and suggests ways to overcome it. Thanks, Erica, for your tips!
I am very fussy about movies and do not like people chatting, eating, or, even worse, using their phones when they are in a cinema. In an ideal world, everybody should shut up and simply watch the movie. I know this is impossible, that’s why I stopped going to the cinema!
For some reason, I have always thought that this was a very special period for many people around the world but Christmas and the Christmas holidays in Italy are a bit different than in some other places.
Depending on what each student likes, we talk about sports, books, movies, daily life, politics, travel, and lots of other fun stuff. I have to admit that if the student is interested in the topic, I love chatting about Italian wedding traditions because I always find it fun to compare them to those of other countries.
It seems that many people in Italy strongly believe that some things might bring bad luck and it is a common belief that people are generally more superstitious in the south of the country.
The first post of the series was about Libereso Guglielmi, a very important figure in Italian gardening who is famous for being the gardener of Italo Calvino, while the second one was about Lisetta Carmi, a photographer from Genoa who says she has lived five different lives.
Our language and everyday conversations are full of references to some Italian comedy movies that everybody has watched at least once in their lives.
As I stated in the first post of the series, which was about Libereso Guglielmi, the gardener of Italo Calvino, the purpose of the series is to tell you about Italians that deserve to be known outside of Italy and to write about Italian culture from a different perspective.
I bet you know a lot of them! Lots of Italians – like Andrea Bocelli, Sophia Loren, and Federico Fellini, just to name the first three that come to my mind – are famous all over the world. But there are a lot of lesser-known Italians who have done incredible things in their lives and that are definitely worth knowing.
