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[Italian Vocabulary] La Cena: Words and Phrases to Be Used at Dinner Time

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Food is a key part of the Italian culture. 

If you come to Italy, you’ll immediately realize that food is really important for us Italians. Eating is some sort of ritual, not just a way to fill your stomach when you are hungry. The time you spend eating is not considered a waste of time, but an essential part of the day. The quality of food is a serious matter and food traditions are taken as principles of a religion.

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30 Common Italian Idioms That Are Related to Colours

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Are you ready for some new Italian idioms?

It’s been a while since I last posted about Italian idiomatic phrases but I have to admit I couldn’t find a proper topic. I have been thinking about an interesting unifying theme for idioms but I wasn’t able to find anything until, while writing down phrases for an Instagram project which will begin soon, I wrote the phrase essere al verde and I realized that colours could be a great topic for a post about Italian idioms.

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Happy Birthday, Instantly Italy!

Instantly Italy is turning three these days and I almost can’t believe it. 

When I launched this website, back in February 2015, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. Launching the website was already a dream come true for me, so I was happy with it and didn’t think much about the future. I am not a planner and I prefer to take things as they come, so I had no big plans at the time.

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[Italian Vocabulary] “È ora di merenda!” Useful Italian words and phrases to be used at that time of day

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Here comes a new post to help you learn some useful Italian words and phrases.

It’s been a while since I last wrote an Italian Vocabulary series post, that kind of posts where I tell you about Italian culture and way of life and list you some Italian vocabulary as well, and I thought it was time for a new one. The topic I decided to focus on today is one of my favorite Italian habits: merenda. 

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How can I improve my Italian without moving from home? Find some tips here

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How can I improve my Italian? That’s a question I get quite frequently. 

Well, the easiest answer would be: “spend some time in Italy“. As a matter of fact, spending some time in the country where the language you are learning is spoken is the most effective way of improving such language. Unfortunately, this is not always so easy to be done.

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[Italian Vocabulary] È arrivato l’inverno! A list of the most useful Italian words and phrases for winter

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Even if it’s already been freezing cold for a while here, we can now officially say that it is winter! Winter has arrived today in all its glory and it’s time to celebrate.

If you have been following me for some time now, you know that I am more of a fan of summer, but I like the changing of the seasons and I am ready to embrace what is coming.

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[Italian Vocabulary] È ora di pranzo: a list of common Italian words and phrases to be used at lunchtime

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Food is most likely one of the first things that come to mind when thinking of Italy. 

There are art and history and the amazing scenery, obviously, but food plays a very important role in the culture of us Italians. This means that meal times are key moments in our daily life, which can hardly be skipped – unless something really vital happens to force us not to have lunch or dinner.

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25 Italian idiomatic phrases that are related to numbers

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It’s time for a new round of Italian ways of saying, don’t you think?

After writing two posts about ways of saying that have something to do with food and other two about idiomatic phrases that are related to animals, I thought it was time to focus on numbers.

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[Italian Phrases] Facciamo merenda?

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Sometimes phrases convey a meaning that goes beyond their literal one. 

No matter of well you know a language, there’ll always be hues of meaning that you might not immediately get until a native explains them to you or until you spend some time in the country where such language is spoken.

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[Italian Vocabulary] Do you feel the new season coming? Here’s your list of Italian words and phrases for autumn!

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Mornings are chillier and leaves are changing their colors. This means just one thing: autumn is here!

When I was younger, I used to hate this period of the year. I was really into spending days at the beach, partying with my friends and going out a lot and the coming of autumn meant that I should stop doing all these kind of things and go back to school and study and spend endless afternoons indoors: I was just totally bummed.

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