intermediate-eng

In today’s video we are going to see two quite tricky words: circa and verso. In fact, these two words mislead foreign students because they share the same meaning but in totally different contexts! Stay with us to learn to dominate these two words once and for all!

In today’s article we are not going to deal with grammar, but with 7 peculiarities about Italy, which many of you probably don’t know.

The word voglio, very common, in Italian language, can be often inappropriate, even rude, when it is used in certain contexts, places and situations. For example, in a restaurant, using expressions like: “voglio una pizza e una birra” (I want a pizza and a beer), but also others like: “voglio che tu faccia questo” (I want you to do this) or “voglio che tu vada lì” (I want you to go there) can result unpleasant. For this reason, in today’s we are going to see some alternatives we can use instead of “voglio”.

Today we have made for you an article about a product we Italians love very much: “pasta”, a true delight! We Italians like it so much that we don’t only cook it by enriching with a lot of ingredients, but we also put a lot of effort in creating a plethora of ingredients, so much that every region has its own favorite shape of pasta. For this reason we are going to see the most famous types of pasta!

By popular demand, in today’s article we are going to talk about the best 5 Italian movies you have to absolutely watch, according to the informal and subjective opinion of Graziana. Let’s get it started!

In today’s article we are dealing with a matter that creates many doubts among Italians: how to write the name, in Italian, of the famous beverage, whose name, in English, is tea. Which one is the correct form? Is it written te, without the accent ore tè, with the accent? Maybe it’s written te’, with the apostrophe. Perhaps we should place a H in the middle, so it would be the. Or still both with the accent and the H, namely: thé. It’s time to find out!