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Guess what triggered a huge discussion in Italy? Pizza! The best known and most loved Italian dish in the world was invented in the city of Naples, where it was a very common dish among poor people. According to a legend, in this city pizza Margherita was invented and named after the queen Margherita di Savoia. Its toppings represented the colours of the Italian flag (white mozzarella, green basil and red tomato sauce). From that day a lot of pizza makers went wild and created even more “gourmet” versions of the traditional pizza Margherita. For example, you can find this “gourmet” pizza in Falvio Briatore’s restaurants. The prices there are so high that they drew a lot of criticism and triggered come fights between Italian pizza lovers.

When you’re studying a foreign language, it is normal to have a lot of questions. Obviously, also those who study Italian as a foreign language have questions and doubts. I can tell you that! In fact, I get asked a lot of questions from you, to which I try to answer in all my videos. But you also ask Google a lot of questions about the Italian language, right? And you do that almost everyday. So in this video, I decided to humbly take Google’s place and answer the most asked questions on Google about the Italian language! Let’s see if you have asked yourselves the same questions and if you know the answers!

In this lesson I would like to introduce you to a word that is surely one of the very first ones that you have learnt in Italian: I’m talking about QUALCOSA. I’ve hit it, haven’t I? In fact, it’s a word for beginners. However, from my own experience, I can tell you that it raises many doubts and confusion and sometimes, even among those people with an advanced level of Italian! So now I will show you the 5 most common mistakes concerning QUALCOSA that foreigners make. And again, do not think that this video-lesson is only meant for beginners!

When I asked you on Instagram for some advice on topics for new videos, I received may messages in which you asked me more videos on conjunctions and their use. On our channel you can already find some videos explaining conjunctions -such as concessive clauses– whereas in this article I decided to put you to the TEST: are you sure you know the right meanings and uses of Italian conjunctions? Let’s find out together!

COLPO: what comes to your mind when you hear this word? Probably you’ll think about a hit, a shock or a stroke… Exactly! Anyway, in Italian the word “colpo” can be found in a lot of idiomatic expressions, but its meaning changes into something less literal. In this video, we will show you the most common expressions with COLPO!

Everyone knows that nowadays we tend to spend a lot of time indoors, often in front of screens, and outdoors activities seem like just a childhood memory. Actually, I recently watched the Netflix series Squid Game – among other themes, it has that of children’s games. Of course, in the series these themes are taken to the extreme, but it’s the same starting point; so I thought I’d tell you about the most popular children’s games in Italy, or at least those played some time ago, when kids would play together, before the rise of technology and video games – in short, my generation’s childhood games…!