Un’attività di lettura e comprensione per i nostri studenti preparata dai colleghi della scuola ilsasso.com di Montepulciano. Buona lettura! Sostituisci le parole evidenziate con i sinonimi Comprare, pozione, grandissima, abitano, turisti, piccoli, opportunità, ferie, assistenti, camminare Livello a2/b1 Per fortuna, Montepulciano non è solo una città per l’estate, una di quelle località turistiche dove, alla fine di Ottobre, si chiude…
Know your pasta: easier said than done! Italians are so obsessed with their pasta that they actually created a chart to classify every type according to its structure, it’s lenght or its texture: it’s basically a pasta periodic table! That said, it is not surprising that many Italian language students have an hard time to recognize and name even the most…
Una domanda frequente degli studenti d’italiano è quando usare il verbo “essere” e quando usare il verbo “stare” . I due verbi sono verbi fondamentali della lingua italiana e sono molto utili per chi comincia a studiare italiano. Questi verbi sono molto usati nella conversazione, per esempio nella domanda “Come stai?” la risposta, naturalmente è “Sto bene” o ” Sto male“.…
In Italian every noun has a gender and number. A noun is used for describing a person, an animal, a place or an object. The endings change in the plural with few exceptions. Italian nouns and adjectives can be masculine and feminine, singular and plural. They change the ending vowel according to their gender (feminine or masculine) and number (singular or plural).…
Today it’s all about doubles! What if, instead of saying “Hi, how are you today? Your hair looks great!”, I say “Hi, how are you today? Your hat looks great!”. But you weren’t wearing a hat. You would think I’d gone mad! In Italian this can happen quite easily if you don’t learn to double consonants properly. It’s important to start practising this from your very first…
Buon anno! The start of the new year brings with it the best sales, here in Rome sales (saldi) start on the 6th of January. As a beginner in the Italian language, it can be hard to make conversations with locals. However, since I am a hopeless shopping addicted, I tried to speak to Italian shopkeepers as soon as I…
