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Pasta e basta: A guide to some of Italy’s best dishes

Are you looking to take a well-deserved break in your Italian learning process? Get your apron ready and let’s get cooking.

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5 slang words to improve your Italiano

Just like idioms, slang words will get you to the best of places when travelling abroad. When it comes to talking to locals, expanding your vocabulary, and improving your understanding of another language, they are definitely the way to go!

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5 untranslatable Italian words that may confuse and delight

Each language features one-of-the-kind words that can never be comfortably translated into another. As a result, such words are a tough nut to crack for native speakers (and most importantly, translators – we feel for you).

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5 Italian series to binge-watch

Want to get an inside view of Italian culture and spice up your learning process? We all do but that’s beside the point. Just like movies, TV series can provide additional learning material !

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A guide to some of Italy’s most list-worth expressions

If you want to stray a bit from the traditional ways of learning Italian, you’ve come to the right place. The Italian language is brimming with idiomatic expressions involving food, animals, nature and more.

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Swearing in Italian: 9 Italian curse words

We keep saying that learning a language goes beyond mastering grammar rules and conjugation, if only someone would listen…

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The European language landscape: a tour of the Italian language

Today, we take a look at the role of the Italian language in the European language learning landscape.

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5 English – Italian false friends that will betray you when you least expect it.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer – that’s what any sensible person with a ton of enemies would say. False friends (or falsi amici) are words that are similar or identical in spelling or sound in two languages but actually have significantly different meanings.

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10 reasons to learn Italian

People are often charmed by the musicality of Italian, as well as the promise of la dolce vita. The language ranks fourth among the world’s most learned languages, after English, French and Spanish.