italian language history

'Italiano formale' when and how?

Learning a language is more than just grammar, and it often requires us to adjust ourselves to cultural specific behaviours....

The 3 Italian conjugations -are -ere -ire

Italian is one of the major Romance languages (or Neo-Latin) and inherited various traits from its predecessor. The verbs system that...

Bene vs Buono - Which one should you use? why?

'Bene' and 'buono' sound very similar but they are different. The only issue is to understand when to use each of them, if someone asks...

Imperfetto vs Passato Prossimo (pt.1)

The Italian language offers a wide variety of tenses, aspects, and 'modi', but sometimes you have deal with two past tense forms at the same

Masculine or feminine? the Italian dilemma!

If you are a native English speaker, the word 'house' to you will sound as 'neutral' item. A house doesn't have a gender and yet, if you...

Musica (ep. 1) Italians copy it better - The 60s

Pasta, pizza and....Music? You all know about Italian food and monuments but what about its music? Enough with Pavarotti and 'Volare', in...

Imperativo!

Instructions, commands, orders, or just informal requests? The use of the 'imperativo', in Italian, allows for a wide variety of...

Questo & Quello

There are many things in the cosmo, even though we don't always know how to call them. To avoid confusion, and manage to survive in an...

[almost] Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Andare* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

The Italian language is definitely not democratic. You've got mascunilist choices when you use the plural form for groups and some verbs...

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