In case you haven’t noticed, the weather hasn’t been very good. Actually, it’s been pretty pretty pretttty terrible the last…
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Word of the Day (la parola del giorno)
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If you’ve ever spent more than 10 days, consecutively, in Italy, chances are you have lived through a sciopero, or…
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Ever try paying for something in Rome with a 50 euro bill and NOT get a dirty look? Forget a…
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Coming from the Italian verb, scemare, or to decrease, or wane, scemo means: idiot, fool, stupid, dim-witted, silly, twit, dumb… It’s not…
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Want to say that something is ‘cool!’? Or maybe you want to point to a guy and say ‘he’s hot!’?…
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This is the point where I should probably differentiate between the Italian language, and Roman slang… Italy is divided into 20 regions:…
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Word of the Day: Assaggio
by Maddie DeWitt January 25, 2012About a year ago, I arrived in Rome with two years of college Italian and a fairly good grasp on…
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Pronounced in English, ‘skeefo,’ it is, fo sho, one of the most fun words to use in Italian. Somewhat onomatopoeic in my…
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Apart from sounding like some dirty act, ‘squillo‘ is one of the most useful words in the Italian vocabulary, in…