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Here you can find all the resources and links you need for the 30 Minute Italian Podcast.

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You can listen to episodes 99 – 200 of the podcast using these tools:

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Show Notes Archive

The show notes archive starts from the most recent to the least recent.

Episode 222: (Native Italian Recording) Making Plans

Episode 221: Sexy Phrases to Seduce Your Italian Lover

Episodes 220 – 211

Episode 220: False Friends in Italian

Episode 219: Italian Insults that Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

Episode 218: Phrases to Order Pizza and Gelato in Italian

Episode 217: 2 Must-Know Connector Words in Italian – Poi and Cosi

Episode 216: Compliments to Give in Italian

Episode 215: How to Shop at a Market in Italy

Episode 214: Italian Word Speed Dates: Tanto

Episode 213: Did You Know You Could Use ‘Sentire’ and ‘Trovare’ in These Ways?

Episode 212: Figuring Out Verbs Like Andarsene, Volerci, Avercela, and Entrarci

Episode 211: Useful Phrases to Say When You Freeze and Forget How to Speak Italian

Episodes 210 – 201

Episode 210: How to Buy Cheese in Italy

Episode 209: What’s It Like to Be an American Living in Florence?

Episode 208: Italian Word Speed Dates: Altrimenti

Episode 207: Phrases to Say “This is Delicious!”

Episode 206: 10 Italian Phrases to Use When You’re Busy or Running Late

Episode 205: Italian Word Speed Date: Mica

Episode 204: What’s It Like to Be Pregnant in Italy?

Episode 203: Phrases to Talk About Your Italian Lessons (Interview with a Student)

Episode 202: How to Talk About Where You Live

Episode 201: 14 Ways to Say Thank You in Italian

Episodes 200 – 191

Episode 200: 11 Ways to Say Goodbye in Italian

Episode 199-197: Sigh, all three are lost forever.

Episode 196:  Italian Word Speed Dates: Allora

Episode 195: Christmas: A Thing of Beauty

Episode 194: What’s important to Italians during Christmas? (Insights from Carmine Caruso in Italian)

Episode 193: Due Ragazze Pazze: 30 Phrases for Natale

Episode 192: Sei cose da fare per imparare l’italiano durante i tempi morti

Episode 191: Retired

Episodes 190 – 181

Episode 190: Six Guidelines You Can Use to Choose the “Tu” or the “Lei” Form in Italian

Episode 189: Italian Word Speed Dates: Siccome, Dato che, and Poiché

Episode 188: Le Sagre in Italia

Episode 187: 9 Phrases to Use with a Language Partner

Episode 187: How I’ve Been Preparing for the CILS Exam

Episode 186: Four Q’s You Can Ask to Get Authentic Food in Italy

Episode 185: 3 Steps to Making Quick & Satisfying Progress in Italian

Episode 184: Is there really a formula for learning Italian? YES. 

Episode 183: Behind the Scenes with Italian Learners from The Iceberg Project

Episode 182: 6 Bad Habits I’m Trying to Break in Italian

Episode 181: 23 Phrases for Congratulating People on New Beginnings in Italian

Episodes 180 – 171

Episode 180: How to Give or Understand Directions Given to You in Italian

Episode 179: 12 Phrases for Making Friends While Traveling in Italy

Episode 178: How Dianne Hales Deepened Her Love and Knowledge of Italian to Uncover a Hidden Story

Episode 177: How to Make a Reservation at an Italian Restaurant

Episode 176: 5 Italian Proverbs to Spice up Your Vocabulary

Episode 175: 4 More Verbs in Italian You Might Be Using Incorrectly

Episode 174: 9 Phrases for Talking About Your Business in Italian

Episode 173: 12 Easy Mistakes You May Be Making with Italian Irregular Nouns

Episode 172: 10 Phrases for Talking About Music in Italian

Episode 171: How to Whip Your Italian Back into Shape Before You Leave for Italy

Episodes 170 – 161

Episode 170: How to Cultivate the Right Mindset to Learn Italian: An Interview with Kevin Morehouse

Episode 169: 4 Unexpected Ways to Use the Italian Prepositions “di”, “da”, and “in”

Episode 168: 3 Things I’m Struggling With in Italian Right Now

Episode 167: 4 Verbs in Italian You Might Be Using Incorrectly

Episode 166: 7 Creative Ways to Make Your Italian Study Time Even Better

Episode 165: How to Efficiently Use Your Study Time to Learn Italian (An Interview with Leanne Pressly)

Episode 164: 7 Things Keeping You From Fluency in Italian

Episode 163: How Tom Made the World His Classroom to Learn Italian by Teaching It (an interview with TomTxxytu)

Episode 162: 20 Phrases for Making a Phone Call in Italian

Episode 161: How Rachel Made Her Dream of Living in Florence a Reality (An Interview with Rachel Vermiglio Smith)

Episodes 160 – 151

Episode 160: 21 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for Making Pasta in Italian

Episode 159: 22 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for Making Dessert in Italian

Episode 158: 4 Phrases for Curving the Conversation Back to Italian

Episode 157: 25 Romantic Italian Phrases (or How to Melt Your Lover’s Heart)

Episode 156: Is the fluency illusion getting in the way of learning Italian?

Episode 155: How to Count in Italian (or how to make sure you can eat in Italy)

Episode 154: One Proven Method That Will Help You Remember More Italian

Episode 153: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Italian (or how to talk about the parts of the body)

Episode 152: Can you be conversational in Italian with a limited vocabulary? (An interview with Madeline Jhawar)

Episode 151: Quiz: Should You Use the Imperfect Tense or the Past Tense?

Episodes 150 – 141

Episode 150: How to Say “I Wonder” & Other Forms of Probability in Italian

Episode 149: How I Learned Italian

Episode 148: How to Talk About the Weather in Italian (with 16 Phrases for Making Small Talk)

Episode 147: What It’s Like to Start Over in Italy (An Interview with Jasmine C. Mah)

Episode 146: How to Use the Trapassato Prossimo in Italian (or How to Talk About Things that Happened in the Past)

Episode 145: Italian Word Speed Dates: Bastare, Mancare and Piacere

Episode 144: 15 Ways to Say “That’s Awesome/cool/amazing!” in Italian

Episode 143: What’s important to Italians during Christmas? (Insights from Carmine Caruso in Italian)

Episode 142: 13 Expressions to Keep Conversation Flowing in Italian When You Forget a Word, a Phrase or a Conjugation

Episode 141: What’s it like to live & love in southern Italy? (An interview with Cherrye Moore)

Episodes 140 – 131

Episode 140: Four Ways to Evaluate if You’re “Good” at Learning a Language

Episode 139: How to Describe People in Italian (or how to talk about what she was wearing, who she was with and what her new hair color is)

Episode 138: How to Talk About Your Family in Italian

Episode 137: Is pronunciation or grammar more important? (An interview with Emanuele Venditti)

Episode 136: What’s it like to be an expat in Rome? (An Interview with Tiffany Parks)

Episode 135: Should You Use “Riuscire” or “Potere” to Talk About Being Able to Do Something?

Episode 134: Imperative Mood in Italian (or how to be demanding and give advice in Italian)

Episode 133: When to Use the Subjunctive Mood and When to Use the Present Indicative Tense

Episode 132: 15 Quotes to Keep Up Your Motivation for Italian

Episode 131: Which Words from English Made the Cut in Italian? (or Parole Straniere Usate in Italiano)

Episodes 130 – 121

Episode 130: What is it like to be an expat in Florence? (An Interview with Alexandra Lawrence)

Episode 129: MISSING!

Episode 128: 12 More Phrases that Stalk the Subjunctive Mood

Episode 127: How to Write a Birthday Card in Italian (or how to wish friends another year older in a classy way)

Episode 126: How does someone start a business in Rome? (An Interview with Linda + Steve from The Beehive Hotel)

Episode 125: How to Use “Ne” and “Ci” in Italian

Episode 124: 20 Phrases for Telling a Captivating Story in Italian

Episode 123: What would it be like to live in Orvieto, Italy? (An Interview with Toni DeBella)

Episode 122: 3 Verbs in Italian Every Beginner Should Master

Episode 121: The Differences Between Nulla e Niente in Italiano

Episodes 120 – 111

Episode 120: Basic Italian Sentence Structure (or where do I put all of the words!?)

Episode 119: 12 Phrases That Stalk the Subjunctive Mood (or Twelve Phrases that Are Typically Used with the Subjunctive Mood)

Episode 118: MISSING!

Episode 117: Italian Word Speed Dates: Appena, Addirittura, Comunque and Quindi

Episode 116: Sigh, it’s lost forever.

Episode 115: What Does it Mean if a Verb is Regular or Irregular in Italian?

Episode 114: 24 Italian Phrases for Spring in Tuscany: Due Ragazze Pazze

Episode 113: Relative and Absolute Superlatives in Italian (or the BEST, the WORST, and HAPPIEST)

Episode 112: How to Learn a Language on Your Own and Hone Your Italian Accent with Luca Lampariello

Episode 111: How to Make Your Verbs, Adjectives, and Objects Agree in Italian

Episodes 110 – 101

Episode 110: Learn Italian Through Drawings with Rosangela – Italian for my Girlfriend

Episode 109: Discover the Real Venice that Tourists Miss with Monica Cesarato

Episode 108: 9 Reasons You’re Making Mistakes With Prepositions in Italian and How to Avoid Them (Hint: Most mistakes come from #2)

Episode 107: Where You Should Visit in the South of Italy with Native Italian Speaker Marianna Prizio

Episode 106: 29 Ways to Practice Your Italian While You’re in Italy

Episode 105: 8 Reasons Your Italian Doesn’t Sound Italian (And 8 Fixes to Get to a Near Native Level)

Episode 104: Italian Word Speed Dates: Tale, Eccome, e Semmai

Episode 103: Develop Your Pronunciation and Vocabulary Through Mnemonic Devices with Gabriel Wyner

Episode 102: The Present Tense Gerund in Italian (or how Italians express the -ing tense)

Episode 101: Italian Word Speed Dates: Anzi, Dunque e Piuttosto

Episodes 100 – 91

Episode 100: 23 Mantras to Motivate You When You Don’t Want to Study Italian (or what to read when you need a loving, kick to the butt to keep going)

Episode 99: How to Find and Explore Your Italian Ancestry with Mary Tedesco

Episode 98: Experience an Authentic Italy and Learn to Tell Your Story with Gail Mencini, author of To Tuscany with Love

Episode 97: Articulated Prepositions in Italian {or the baby makin’ magic that happens when an article marries a preposition}

Episode 96: Explore Authentic Italian Cooking with Simonetta and Paola of Toscana Mia

Episode 95: Simple Prepositions in Italian {or why the smallest words hurt the most}

Episode 94: 24 Italian Phrases for Spring in Tuscany: Due Ragazze Pazze

Episode 93: What it Means to Be an Italian Mamma and Build a Career in Italy with Trisha Thomas

Episode 92: How to Rent an Apartment in Italy & a Sample Email in Italian for Booking Accommodation

Episode 91: How Lisa Chiodo and Her Family Followed Their Dream and Renovated a Farmhouse in Italy

Episodes 90 – 81

Episode 90: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 5

Episode 89: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 4

Episode 88: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 3

Episode 87: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 2

Episode 86: Riding in Small, Orange, Tattooed Cars in Italy Pt. 1

Episode 85: The Colors in Italian (or how to talk about her bright red lips + his skintight white t-shirt)

Episode 84: How Sarah Dowling Moved to Bologna and Got Back in Touch With Her Italian Roots

Episode 83: How Sarah Mastroianni Made Siena Her Italian Hometown and Built a Career Around Italian

Episode 82: How to Get Your Visa and Work Abroad in Italy with Rick Zullo

Episode 81: How Lisa Condie of Better Way Italy Listened to Her Intuition and Permanently Moved to Florence, Italy

Episodes 80 – 71

Episode 80: Due Ragazze Pazze: 29 Italian Phrases for Carnevale

Episode 79: Una femminista italiana Pt. 5 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 78: Una femminista italiana Pt. 4 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 77: Una femminista italiana Pt. 3 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 76: Una femminista italiana Pt. 2 {Mini-story Series}

Episode 75: Una femminista italiana Pt. 1 {Mini-Story Series}

Episode 74: Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives in Italian (or how to talk about what’s yours)

Episode 73: 7 Italian Phrases for Shopping at a Market in Italy

Episode 72: Future Tense in Italian (or how to fall head-over-heels in love with the future tense)

Episode 71: How Marissa Bognanno Fell in Love with an Italian and Learned Two Italian Languages

Episodes 70 – 61

Episode 70: 32 Italian Valentine’s Vocabulary and Pick-Up Phrases [Due Ragazze Pazze]

Episode 69: How Krista Ricchi Navigated Becoming an Expat in Italy & Mastered the Italian Language

Episode 68: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 5

Episode 67: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 4

Episode 66: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 3

Episode 65: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 2

Episode 64: How to Talk About Foreign Languages and Cultures: Mini-Story Pt. 1

Episode 63: Quick + Dirty Cheat Sheet to Calabrese

Episode 62: Quick + Dirty Cheat Sheet to Romanesco

Episode 61: 8 Essential Phrases for Booking Accommodation in Italy

Episodes 60 – 51

Episode 60: 8 Random Italian Idioms

Episode 59: When to Use the Imperfect Tense and When to Use the Past Tense in Italian

Episode 58: Italian Imperfect Subjunctive Tense (or how to let go of reality and dream big in Italian)

Episode 57: 3 Main Ways to Use the Word Proprio in Italian

Episode 56: Due Ragazze Pazze: 30 Phrases for Natale

Episode 55: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 5

Episode 54: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 4

Episode 53: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 3

Episode 52: Mini-story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 2

Episode 51: Mini-Story: How can you talk about your favorite things? Pt. 1

Episodes 50 – 41

Episode 50: Formal & Informal Italian (or when should I be polite & when can I be casual?)

Episode 49: Italian Present Conditional (or the tense that finally lets you express yourself in Italian)

Episode 48: Indefinite Pronouns in Italian (or words that will help you be vague)

Episode 47: Top 10 Rules You Probably Forgot About Italian

Episode 46: How Melissa Muldoon Went ‘Matta’ for Italian and What She Built from Her Craziness

Episode 45: The Grand Difference between Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns in Italian (& yes, you have to know them)

Episode 44: The Imperfect Tense in Italian (or the tense that lets you sweetly reminisce on the old days)

Episode 43: 10 Ways to Use the Verb Stare in Conversation

Episode 42: How to Embrace Italian Dialect and Learn Italian with Neapoitan Soap Operas with Traci from Italicissima

Episode 41: How to Eat the Language, Love Opera, and Become Italian with Dianne Hales

Episodes 40 – 31

Episode 40: Oh no, this podcast episode has decided not to be heard anymore.

Episode 39: This podcast episode is missing. SEND A SEARCH PARTY!

Episode 38: Whoops. This podcast episode seems to have been permanently misplaced.

Episode 37: This episode is MIA.

Episode 36: GASP x2! This podcast episode has disappeared!

Episode 35: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.5

Episode 34: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.4

Episode 33: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.3

Episode 32: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.2

Episode 31: Mini-story: What do all Italians love? Pt.1

Episodes 30 – 21

Episode 30: GASP! This episode doesn’t exist!

Episode 29: How to Use Italki to Become Conversational in a Foreign Language with Sam Bleakly

Episode 28: 10 Must Know Travel Expressions for Ordering Food in Italy

Episode 27: 13 Must Know Travel Expressions for Getting Around in Italy

Episode 26: 3 Effective Methods for Studying a Foreign Language with Sam Gendreau

Episode 25: 16 Phrases to Talk about the Date and Time in Italian

Episode 24: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 5

Episode 23: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 4

Episode 22: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 3

Episode 21: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt 2

Episodes 20 – 11

Episode 20: Mini-Story: Discovering the reality of Italian Stereotypes Pt. 1

Episode 19: How to Learn Italian from Novels about Italy Pt.2

Episode 18: How to Learn Italian from Novels about Italy

Episode 17: How to Express Yourself in the Past Tense and Seven Pieces of Italian Culture

Episode 16: 9 (funny + useful) phrases to turn down an Italian man

Episode 15: 8 Expressions You’ll Hear Everyday in Italy and 2 Common Irregular Verbs

Episode 14: 3 Ways to Increase Your Memory Using Collocations and 10 More Phrases You Never Learned in the Classroom

Episode 13: 6 More Phrases to Charm Any Italian to Pieces and a Linguistics Trick that Will Enhance Your Memory Capacity

Episode 12: 6 Phrases to Charm the Pants Off Any Italian, Music through Language, and 1 Verb that Wants to Be in Your Life

Episode 11: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 5

Episodes 10 – 1

Episode 10: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 4

Episode 9: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 3

Episode 8: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Part 2

Episode 7: Mini Story: Italian Stereotypes Pt 1

Episode 6: One expression you’ll use everyday in Italy + 3 basic expressions to make your Italian more fluid

Episode 5: Two oh-so-necessary to understand Italian verbs + four basic expressions you gotta’ know

Episode 4: 3 ways to use Italian in your everyday life and 6 expressions that will make you blush

Episode 3: How to create a kickass language learning schedule and create sentences in Italian

Episode 2: Why grammar should take the back seat + 5 phrases that would make your grandmother blush

Episode 1: How to move what’s standing in your way of learning a language + 11 basic expressions you need to master

Just a quick note to say that I have enjoyed your Italian podcast. Over the past few weeks I have binge listened to all of them. – Sergio M.

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