italian vocab

You know when something is just so good that it’s scary good?! Well that, in Italian, is da paura! When you want to…

For a word that is not actually ‘real,’ boh sure does get a lot of play in everyday speak. Meaning, ‘I…

If you’ve ever spent more than 10 days, consecutively, in Italy, chances are you have lived through a sciopero, or…

Ever try paying for something in Rome with a 50 euro bill and NOT get a dirty look? Forget a…

Something you notice right away in Italy is the power of the Italian mom. Not to say that other cultures…

Coming from the Italian verb, scemare, or to decrease, or wane, scemo means: idiot, fool, stupid, dim-witted, silly, twit, dumb… It’s not…

Want to say that something is ‘cool!’? Or maybe you want to point to a guy and say ‘he’s hot!’?…

This is the point where I should probably differentiate between the Italian language, and Roman slang… Italy is divided into 20 regions:…