What does “fare il ponte” mean? What is the “ponte del 25 aprile”? I like “fare ponte” and you? Fare ponte, literally to make the bridge, is when we take an extra day off creating a long weekend Usua… more →
learn Italian languagewrote 3 days ago: How do you say you have “asked for something” in Italian, for example if you want to tell the wait … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Ok girls and boys, I have been invited to submit a post (under 1000 words) to a newspaper and after … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: CIAO ITALIA, the Italian language school in Rome 10 % off Italian language Courses S4 (4 weeks) a … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: This week Kyle and I had our third Italian class at the Italian Cultural Center in San Diego’s Littl … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: The other day someone said to me “you don’t really appreciate living out here until you … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Sunrises and sunsets pass by my brown eyes like flickers in an old movie – the film running th … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: These books are lifesavers. So today marked the first day of my fourth week of Italian classes at Sc … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: What does “fare il ponte” mean? What is the “ponte del 25 aprile”? I like “fare ponte” and you? Far … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The other day, my friend told me that, statistically, once you learn around seven languages, you can … more →
wrote 1 month ago: When we took our first, tentative steps towards learning Italian, and before we had met our lovely, … more →
wrote 1 month ago: One of the most difficult things about learning a new language isn’t the memorization or the s … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I was going to do a post about the Easter bunny and how he gave Mrs Sensible a dishwasher rather tha … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This is what me trying to learn Italian on my own looks like. Let me preface this by saying that I … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Gli insegnanti di Ciao Italia partecipano al corso di aggiornamento che si terrà domani al MAXXI di … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Well my daughter picked up my error in referring to the two p’s in Cappucino as vowels not con … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Do you want to improve your listening and pronunciation skills? Here is a nice Italian song. The ti … more →
wrote 2 months ago: In 2009 I left Piemonte and went to Sicily in search of work. This cunning plan, was to find employm … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Which I have discovered in Italian would be ODM! for O Dio Mio. This weekend I have gotten quite an … more →
wrote 3 months ago: I had the brilliant idea of signing us up for Italian language class on Tuesday nights. We are goin … more →