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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 how 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 a 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!

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian words and phrases you’ll find 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. 

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 kinds of things and go back to school and study and spend endless afternoons indoors: I was just totally bummed.

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50 Italian Idiomatic Phrases That Are Related to Animals (part 2)

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian idiomatic phrases you’ll find 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. 

As I promised last week, here comes the second part of the Italian idiomatic phrases that have something to do with animals.

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50 Italian Idiomatic Phrases That Are Related to Animals (part 1)

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian idiomatic phrases you’ll find 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. 

Here comes another round of Italian idiomatic phrases!

Actually, it is more than one round as – exactly as it happened last time – when I started researching for common Italian idiomatic phrases, I came up with so many I had to split this post in two.

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50 Italian idiomatic phrases that are related to food (part 2)

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian idiomatic phrases you’ll find 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. 

Here we go again, it’s time for a new list of food-related Italian sayings!

As I told you in my last post, the list of Italian idiomatic phrases that are related to food was too long to make it into just one post. Therefore, I decided to split it into two, in order to make it more readable and enjoyable.

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50 Italian idiomatic phrases that are related to food (part 1)

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian idiomatic phrases you’ll find 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. 

What are the perks of knowing a native speaker, when it comes to learning a language? 

Well, there are quite a few, actually. You can obviously practice your speaking skills, get feedback on your mistakes, improve your pronunciation, and learn a lot of interesting and useful sayings.

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[Italian Vocabulary] È arrivata l’estate! The most useful Italian words and phrases related to summer

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian words and phrases you’ll find 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. 


Summer is finally here! What a better option for an Italian vocabulary post?

If you’ve been following me for a while now – especially if you read my newsletter, where I write about more personal stuff – you already know that I am a fan of summer.

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[Italian Vocabulary] È ora di colazione: words and phrases for your breakfast in Italy

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian words and phrases you’ll find 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.

Do you like having breakfast?

It’s one of my favorite moments of the day, actually. I love it so much that I usually set my alarm way earlier than needed just to have the right time to have breakfast.

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13 Classic Books Every Italian Has Read When in School

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Or, to say it better: 13 Italian classic books every Italian SHOULD have read when in school. 

Let’s be honest: how many of you have read all the classics that have been assigned to you, when you were a student?

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[Italian Vocabulary] All the Italian words and phrases related to Easter

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian words and phrases you’ll find 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. .

Easter has just passed, this year, but there’s still so much to say about it!

Even if it is not as big as Christmas, Easter is a very heartfelt celebration here in Italy. Actually, if you are a religious person, Easter is a very important feast, as it celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and there are a lot of important traditions linked to it.

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