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Some English Words That Are Used In Italian With A Different Meaning

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The Italian language includes some English words used with a different meaning but also words that Italians think are English when actually they are not. 

One of the funniest things about my work is chatting with people and laughing with them about words with different meanings or uses, depending on the language.

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Some Common Italian Grammar Mistakes That Native Speakers Make All The Time

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Are you scared of speaking Italian? Are you afraid of making mistakes? No, worries. We Italians make them all the time (myself included).

I know, I teach Italian and I shouldn’t admit that sometimes I make little mistakes when speaking my own language. That’s very unprofessional of me, right? Well, no, I don’t think so.

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How To Buy Groceries in Italy: What To Say And Do in Italian Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

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Shopping for food is one of the activities like the most when I am abroad.

Going to open-air markets or visiting the supermarket is a true adventure and a great way to know a certain town or country better: the farther from your hometown you are, the funnier it is.  There is a lot you can learn about a place if you go grocery shopping, so it’s an experience I totally recommend you, in Italy especially, where food is more than a religion.

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10 Basic Italian Phrases You Need To Know If You Visit Italy (Plus One)

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You don’t need to speak Italian if you come to Italy, obviously, but knowing a few basic phrases could definitely help. 

Knowing a bit of the language is a matter of survival if you go to remote or off-the-beaten-track Italian locations but mastering a few basic words and phrases can be a great idea even if you go to tourist places, where most people know English.

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100 Days Of Italian Idioms

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There’s a project on Instagram that has become quite of a habit for me. 

It’s #the100dayproject, a project that requires choosing a topic and sharing on Instagram a photo a day about such topic, for a little more than three months.

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10 Popular Italian Idioms That Come From Movies and TV Shows

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Idioms are one of the funniest yet hardest things to learn in a foreign language. 

You can be a very fluent speaker but if in the middle of a conversation someone tells you sei lungo come la Quaresima (you are long as Lent) or that it is time to tagliare la testa al toro (to cut the bull’s head), you may end up with a puzzled look on your face.

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Fun Ways of Practicing Italian: YouTubers To Follow if You Want To Improve Your Italian Language Skills

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YouTube offers all kinds of resources for all kinds of necessities and it is a great tool for language learners as well. 

YouTube is one of the most important sources of video entertainment in my daily life and it is a wonderful opportunity for practicing my English comprehension skills. I watch a lot of videos on a daily basis – all of them in English – and I feel that this is highly beneficial for my English fluency.

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12 Cool Italian Idioms That Come From TV Commercials (plus one)

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I have been focusing on Italian idioms quite a lot in my work, recently.

If you have been following this blog for a while now, you may remember that I have written a couple of posts on idioms that are related to food, other two on idiomatic phrases that have to do with animals, a post about Italian ways of saying that contain numbers and another one about idioms that are related to numbers.

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

I have prepared a pdf file with all the words and phrases we learned in this post. You can find it in Your Italian Toolbox, a section of Instantly Italy where you’ll find Italian learning materials. You can get access to it by subscribing here. 

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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