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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Many would think that, in order to speak a language correctly, your grammar has to be impeccable. I was one of them, and to a certain extent I still am. I have studied 4 languages so far, and for years I have tormented myself with perfect grammar. What would people think of me if I
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Listen to this blog post: Social relationships work because there is a mutual knowledge of certain elements like status and age, that require different degrees of politeness. The way we express politeness and formality in Italian is clearly marked by the use of tu and lei. Being able to discern when it is appropriate to
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In your career as a language learner sooner or later you will have to WRITE. I have been there too, and I remember all my doubts and fear of making mistakes, especially as a French student. While it was so easy to speak, even long sentences flowed without problems, when it came to writing I
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