In this lesson we are going to explain in detail when you must use the word “ECCO” and especially how to use it in the correct way! It is often misused by most of the foreign students learning Italian, but you just have to understand its role and its purpose: with this, it will be a piece of cake!

In this lesson we’re going to deal with history, more precisely we’re going to study one of the darkest, most delicate and most dramatic periods of Italian history: the twenty years of Fascism. In fact, we’ll see how the fascist movement began, we’ll analyze the figure of Benito Mussolini, leader of the movement, and we’ll also explore all the events that led Italy to being held in a totalitarian dictatorship and subsequently to take part in the World War II!

Italy is considered the land of good food: everyone has eaten pizza, pasta or lasagne at least once in their lifetime. If you have ever been to Italy, you’ll know a lot of delicious recipes, but among the various Italian regional recipes, there are some “peculiar” ones. In this article we’ll talk about the 6 weirdest and unusual Italian foods: let’s see if you know them! And, if you are squeamish, keep a puke bucket nearby… just in case!

Imperfetto and passato prossimo are among the first tenses to be studied when studying Italian, along with the present tense verb. Therefore, they may seem beginner topics but, actually, their use can create some difficulties even for the most experienced students, because of their differences which can sometimes be very subtle. For this reason, in the following lesson, we are going to see how to use these two tenses properly and their differences. In addition, in the video related to this article, you’ll find a useful exercise to verify what you’ll learn!