Do you want to know what the longest word in Italian is? It's a whopping 26 letters and 11 syllables long.
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- I'm going to talk about things you need to stop doing in order to achieve fluency in another language.
- I tried, tested and reviewed Rocket Italian over an extended period to see what kind of Italian results it could give me. Here's what I discovered.
- As I worked to learn Italian, one of the things that improved my understanding the most was reading Pinocchio from cover-to-cover in Italian.
- There are many ways in which Spanish and Italian are similar. But also different. This will help you decide which language to learn.
- Today, we have a few more Italian colloquialisms, or idioms, or slang... or whatever you like to call them.
- Here are some common Italian terms and phrases that always play tricks on my ears.
- In my opinion, when it comes to how regional a particular language phrase is, the bottom line is: who cares?
- Most languages have a ton of slang, and Italian is no exception. Today I'll just discuss a few fun little Italian slang words.
- Just as with everything else with learning Italian, it turns out that using the conditional tense isn't hard at all, and it's certainly not the complicated matter that people make it out to be.
- Each language feels different when it hits your ear, and feels strange as it exits your mouth — often leaving your tongue twisted into a new, uncomfortable shape.
- In Italian, a tongue-twister is called scioglilingua, and they've got some hard ones! I've listed a few here.
- We've learned about the reflexive pronouns ci and vi, and the partitive pronoun ne, but the Italian pronouns ci, vi, and ne all have secret powers that other pronouns don't have.
- The Italian partitive is a special kind of pronoun which functions as a back-reference. It refers back to a direct object specified in a previous sentence - or possibly later in the current sentence.
- One of the more enjoyable details about learning a new language is learning how animals talk - onomatopoeia.
- Today, we'll look at a few more useful Italian word patterns I've found.
- Here are some essential Italian word patterns that every learner of the language will encounter.
- In my last post, I talked about the importance of learning word patterns when learning Italian. Today, I want to focus on verb + prep. + infin. patterns.
- In my Italian studies so far this year, I've run into several situations where a word can mean two completely different things.
- In this post, we're talking about essential Italian phrases that you should know to be able to describe about yourself for basic survival.
- Today we'll look at how to describe and name body parts in Italian that every beginner learner should know.
- Today we'll look at some vital descriptive words in Italian that every learner should know.
- There's an incredible amount that can be done after learning a few basic verbs and their conjugation. Here are a few really useful verbs for Italian.
- Today I'll teach you how to give and ask for directions in Italian.
- If you're not already familiar with it, the BBC languages website is a good online tool for language study and practice in Italian.
- In today's post, I'll explain to you how to count in Italian and basic numbers.
- In this post, I'll teach you basic essentials in Italian and how to ask for them.
- Today I'll show you how to be courteous and polite when speaking Italian.
- In this post, I'll teach you how Italians greet each other and other essential Italian phrases.
- Pronouns are among the most used of any word in any language, and they have many uses. Today I'd like to take a look at some of the ways they are used in Italian.
- Today, I'd like to explore how that works in the so-called Romance languages... though I prefer to think of them as Vulgar Latin languages.
- In this post, I talk about 'improper prepositions' in Italian and how to learn them.
- Today I want to suggest one more way to convey superlatives, and add a few notes on usage.
- In addition to regular comparative forms, there are also some irregular comparatives and superlatives for Italian adjectives and adverbs.
- In this post, I'll show you how to form Italian comparatives and superlatives.
- Learning a language? Here's why frequency lists are so important (and how to use them).
- Instead of pluralizing the second person, or adding a title (like sir), Italians abstract into the third person. In the singular, this means that they call each other 'she'.
- I recently found a list of SMS abbreviations for Italian, and I'd like to share them.
- Italian prepositions are those short words which express conditions, directions, specifications, places and times, such as of, over, to, from, etc.
- In this post, I'll explain in simple terms how to form and use the Italian imperative.
- When describing an action that was ongoing at some time in the past, you need to use an imperfect verb tense, and that is what the imperfetto is.
- It most likely started in Rome, with the Latin pronouns tu and vos, but these days it can be seen in many languages throughout the world.
- oday, we're going to cover il passato remoto, the Italian verb tense used to describe things that happened long ago.
- Similar to the past perfect subjunctive, the congiuntivo trapassato, or pluperfect, is formed by applying the subjunctive to the passato prossimo.
- The congiuntivo passato, or past perfect subjunctive, is really just the subjunctive form of the passato prossimo.
- The congiuntivo imperfetto, or imperfect subjunctive, describes an uncertain verb action that was ongoing in the past.
- The congiuntivo presente, or present subjunctive, describes an uncertain verb action in the present tense.
- Today, I'd like to start by talking about what the subjunctive mood is, and where and how it is used.
- Today, we'll look at some interesting facts about Italian, and we'll get back to the details of speaking it later.
- One of the most widely used of all Italian prefixes is nothing more than the letter s-.
- Prefixes are one of my favorite aspects of Italian, because understanding them makes the language easy and interesting.
- Today is April first, and in the many parts of the world, that means it's All Fool's Day. Here's how an Italian might talk about it.
- In today's post, I'll teach you Italian question words and how to ask questions.
- The simple future tense is easy to form in Italian. As with everything, you start by dropping the verb's ending, and then adding the future ending.
- In today's post, I'll show you how I use my shopping list to learn more Italian.
- One of the most common ways of forming the past tense is il passato prossimo, or what we know in English as the present-perfect tense.
- Understanding reflexive verbs in Italian is not only vital for certain verbs, but also opens the door to advanced grammatical constructs.
- In Italian, it's fascinating to learn a little about the Italian language's Roman roots for days.
- Today I'll teach you how to form and use diminutives in the Italian language.
- Today we're going to continue exploring the Italian forms of 'to be' by learning to use the continuous tense.
- There is no reason why a person can't be making friends and practicing Italian after only one month (or even less!) of study.
- The phrase stare per [...] indicates action on the verge of happening. It is always followed by an infinitive verb.
- The verbs essere and stare both translate as 'to be' in most uses, but they represent two different concepts.
- Since I am studying Italian, I am going to discuss the items found in a typical Italian restaurant.
- A few days ago, we discovered a way to use music to learn a new language. Today, we're going to try it out first-hand.
- Now that we understand noun gender and articles, the next thing to explore is possession, and the adjectives used to describe it.
- Today I'll teach you how to use and understand articles in Italian grammar.
- It's amazing how many videos you can find on YouTube to help you learn languages. People have done a lot of work to help you learn, all for free.
- Look around you as you go through your day and name the things you see. Try to describe your surroundings in Italian.
- Let's take a deeper look at the sounds of letters and letter combinations in Italian, and learn a little bit about spelling.
