Studying Italian doesn’t have to be a burden: you can learn a lot (about the language and about yourself) by adding creative writing activities to your regular exercises). In this blog post, I am going to share with you all the tips and tricks I use to create a meaningful collage and how you can […]
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Yes, you have read it correctly: you can expand your Italian writing habit using sound-only, nature sounds videos. It may seem awkward, I know, and that’s what I said to myself when I got the idea. But then I focused my attention on the possibilities those videos can offer. Right now, while I’m writing this
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Let’s do a not-so-funny round of questions before I tell you how to use printables to organize your Italian learning routine: Did you remember to moisturize today? Did you remember to drink at least 8 glasses of water today? Did you remember to make your bed? Did you remember to meditate for 15 minutes this
What’s a student’s number one enemy? Boredom. Not your number one? Well, I’m sure it’s on your top five. I definitely find it difficult to be motivated when I’m bored. This means that I’ll likely find excuses (although creative excuses) to go do something else. Luckily for us, language learning is not a chore and
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The problem all language learners are faced with, sooner or later, is time. Actually, the lack of time. So what can you do if you only have 15 minutes to study Italian? Even as little as 15 minutes a week. If you are wondering if 15 minutes a week are enough to really learn Italian,
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What a title! You might think I’m a crazy teacher, thinking I can tell you to stop studying and just use creativity? Isn’t it the only way to truly make progress? What else can you do to learn Italian if not studying it? And studying it as much as you can? What does creativity have to
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Your night table is about to collapse under its own weight. You keep stacking Italian book on top of Italian book because you are going to read them. One day. They won’t be furniture. One day. I suppose this is how you see it: reading a book in Italian (from the first page to the last)
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When you start learning a language you have high expectations, more than you would care to admit. A new language opens up a new world and you would just dive into it, head first. I have always had extremely high expectations every time I have learned a new language and I can honestly say that,
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A couple of months ago I happened to find an old diary that I wrote when I was in high school. Reading it was quite the experience: my life was all there, a punctual analysis of major and minor events that I wanted to fix on paper to… I don’t really know why I had
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Do you ever think of objects as masculine or feminine, like chair, cloud, flower, sea? If you speak Italian you won’t notice anything strange. If you speak English, you probably won’t have a clue on how to know if an Italian word is masculine or feminine. The gender of a word is just a fact
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