Italian language: How to use "acqua" and the letter q
WTI Magazine #50 2014 December, 26Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: We start today to explore the linguistic heritage of our beautiful language with the word "acqua" (water), to show you a few ways how to use it in the common language. Let's start with the saying "l'acqua cheta rovina i ponti" (literall...
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Italian language: It isn't hard to learn, by no means
WTI Magazine #45 2014 October, 15Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: Today we continue to explore our Italian language getting back to the "false friends" which, as we already said, help us not only to avoid errors but also to become more confident and to enrich our vocabulary. "Case", for example, is in...
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Italian language: The importance of sound
WTI Magazine #44 2014 October, 1Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: Properly speaking a foreign language means diving into another culture, to understand how native speakers express themselves, studying the grammar and working on the curiosity and the preparation required to learn idioms and its common la...
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Italian language: One step after another
WTI Magazine #56 2015 March, 20Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: The word "passo" (step) is used with the verb "fare" (to do) as in "fare un passo" (literally, to do one step) or "fare due/quattro passi" (which in Italian means "to take a walk"). Even with such a simple word, we find plenty of common sa...
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Italian language: No Need to Kiss the Ring, Just Use “Lei”
WTI Magazine #81 2016 July 15Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ Translation by: English and Italian grammar are very different. Anybody that studies Italian can tell that the Italian and English grammar, specifically the verb tenses and the nouns, are completely different. But the most foreign concepts to English speake...
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Italian language: Friends, but not too much
WTI Magazine #42 2014 September, 3Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com Translation by: With the term romance or neo-Latin languages, we refer to those derived from Latin, following the expansion of the Roman Empire. But what does "romanzo" (novel) specifically mean? This word comes from the latin adverb "romanice" and ref...
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Italian language: Patrimonio (Patrimony)
WTI Magazine #6 2013 Nov, 22Author : Alessandro Masi Translation by: In ancient Rome the patrimonium (patrimony) was the whole property received as an inheritance from the father. The term has a meaning even in a figurative sense: not only money and property, but also feelings, values, memories, everythin...
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Italian language: Compenso (Reward)
WTI Magazine #4 2013 Nov, 8Author : Alessandro Masi Translation by: Derived from the Latin compensate, "weigh together", which referred to the idea of balance: you are worth that much, I give you that much. But today, when everybody earn little no matter what they are worth, we with some suspicion who is...
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Italian language: The origins of Thanks, You are welcome, Grazie and Prego
WTI Magazine #77 2016 March 18Author : Giosuè Prezioso Translation by: According to the Californian neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, the amount of words pronounced on a daily basis by women and men is very diverse: the former, in fact, can use until 20 thousand terms, the latter only 7 thousands, basically a third. Among these wo...
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Italian language: Let’s Set The Table
WTI Magazine #82 2016 August 19Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ Translation by: One thing everyone knows about Italians is that they love their food. They love their bread, their pasta, their pizza, and nothing else is like a good lasagna made by their grandma. Salami, focaccia, gelato, hey, anything Italian is delici...
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