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Italian Vocabulary for Social Media and Smartphones (Downloadable PDF and Audio File Included)

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Smartphones and social media are a huge part of our daily life, nowadays. 

We use them constantly and we probably couldn’t live without them. They play such an important role in our life that we undoubtedly talk about them quite frequently in our conversations and, if we do so in a foreign language, we need to know a specific set of words and phrases.

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#tiregalounaparola: A Creative Project To Use Your Italian (and Make New Friends Too!)

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Studying languages is undoubtedly nice but the real fun begins when you put them into use. 

Spending time on books and apps to learn grammar and vocabulary is great but the satisfaction that comes from finally being able to make yourself understood is unbeatable.

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What is “Ti aiuto io”?

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There is a new service I have been wanting to offer for a while and, finally, the time has come.   

When I started Instantly Italy, I was still working as a translator full time and the only service I could offer here, besides the e-courses via email, was Chiacchieriamo.

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Italian Language For English Speakers: English-Italian False Friends (Adjectives, Adverbs and Verbs)

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It’s time for a new round of English-Italian false friends. 

As I told you in my previous post about English-Italian false friends, there are so many of them that I had to split the topic in two to avoid writing an incredibly long post.

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Practicing Italian in Italy: A Three-Day Experience in Sanremo

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Learning languages is fun, we all know that, but it is also a real challenge.

You may study a certain language for ages and even feel quite confident but the real test is when you visit the country where such language is spoken.

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Italian Language For English Speakers: English-Italian False Friends (Nouns)

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I am sure you have come across many posts about English-Italian false friends while googling language resources online.

This is the type of post you usually find on language learning blogs, right? Well, when I came up with the idea of writing a blog post about English-Italian false friends, I first thought that this was a very ordinary idea. But I keep on seeing my students making little mistakes due to these tricky words and I’ve decided to give it a go.

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Ricomincia la scuola! A List of Useful Italian Words and Phrases That Are Related to School (Downloadable File Included)

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It’s September and school is about to start again, here in Italy. 

The air is getting chillier and everybody is getting ready for a new school season, you can really feel it in the air even if you have no kids. It’s that time of the year when you wish your only thought was to go to the nearest stationery store and buy all you need for the new year.

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[Italian Phrases] Ne parliamo a settembre!

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There are some popular Italian phrases that have more meaning than it may seem.

If you are not a native Italian speaker or if you haven’t been living in Italy for a while, you may hear and understand them, but you may lose some of its meaning.

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Italian Language For English Speakers: The Word ‘Time’ In Italian

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When I write about the word ‘time’ in Italian, I am not referring to how to ask and tell the time in Italian, but to the actual English word time. 

As a matter of fact, most of my students are English speakers and after working with them for a while, I noticed that most of them show the same weaknesses and struggle with the same topics, when it comes to speaking Italian: one of them is undoubtedly the word time.

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È ora di lavorare! A List of Words and Phrases to Improve Your Italian Work Vocabulary

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I bet you are not studying Italian in order to work in Italy. 

Probably you are doing it to reconnect with your roots and ancestors, maybe you are doing it because you came to Italy once and fell in love with the country or maybe just because you think that Italian is a wonderful language and you want to be able to say something more than “Buongiorno!“, when you visit Italy.

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