In this lesson we will talk about a very important and interesting subject, not just for those who are learning Italian as e foreign language, but for native speakers as well! It’s a subject that is usually taught in primary school, but is then left alone because it’s taken for granted. I’m talking about ACCENT! In this lesson we will at all the existing types of accent in Italian and how to use them correctly!
Have you ever heard the verb “dire” (to say)? Yes, exactly, one of the most used verbs in Italian. So, i bet you’ve said it again and again so many that you are feeling sick. And all of us are sick of hearing it. In this lesson i will show you 100 alternatives for the verb DIRE that will be very useful to enrich your spoken and written Italian! I know, 100 alternatives sound like a drag… but don’t worry: I have no intention to bore you with a long and tedious list of words!
Literature is a wide and interesting subject, and Italy has always been proficient in it: there are many authors and even more books that made it into school textbooks, so we decided to recommend you 7 of them among the most important. You have certainly already heard about some of these books or their authors, but i’m fairly sure you probably don’t know everything about them. So i will try to expand your knowledge of Italian literature without boring you. Are you ready? Let’s begin!
In this lesson, we will talk about a topic that’s very close to the hearts of Italians as well as that of anyone else: love. The force that pushes the world, the source of our desires, the most beautiful out of all the emotions. Brace yourself, because in this video we will teach you how to be fresh and original when it comes down to expressing your feelings. You won’t find yourselves looking for the right words to crown the perfect moment, because you will already have them ready to use.
In this lesson I want to talk about a serious problem afflicting the Italian language! One of those problems that prevents many foreign students from understanding, at first reading or listening, what is being said or written: enantiosemy, a linguistic phenomenon by which some words, in Italian, indicate one thing… and its exact opposite! Obviously, the word affected by this phenomenon was not born with two opposite meanings, but it has acquired one of them over time.
In this lesson, we are going to explain a topic of the Italian grammar that is very important, and that will help you expand your vocabulary and use a specific type of nouns in the correct way: we are talking about collective nouns. Let’s get started!
