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How To Apologize in Italian

How to Apologize in Italian

We’ve all been there. Sometimes it’s a simple gaffe (anyone read my other post, Parole Pericolose? If not – check it out for some serious mixups), and sometimes it’s a bigger error that involves actually offending your new Italian friend. If it hasn’t happened yet, over the course of your language learning journey, unfortunately, it…

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How to Talk About Everyday Chores in Italian

How to Talk About Everyday Chores in Italian

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts.At The Iceberg Project, we’re big believers in incorporating Italian into everyday tasks as a way to further your learning and vocabulary. So, we got to thinking, what is something everyone does every day, but maybe has…

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Dialogue: Differences Between American & Italian Culture, Pt. I

Dialogue: Differences Between American & Italian Culture, Pt. I

At The Iceberg Project, we believe the only way you can truly learn a language is by using it in real life. (We also believe that Italian is the best foreign language to learn.) To help you get that real-life experience, we put together this dialogue for you. It’s about two friends — one Italian…

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Chi sono i “falsi amici”??

Chi sono i “falsi amici”??

No matter whether it’s your first foreign language or your fifth, the rules of the Italian language can be really confusing. Plus, there isn’t a whole lot of material out there in Italian that offers comprehension practice targeted at English speakers. That’s why I ask my team to create original content in Italian constantly, like…

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Dialogue: Learning Italian with a Private Tutor, Pt. II

Dialogue: Learning Italian with a Private Tutor, Pt. II

At The Iceberg Project, we believe the only way you can truly learn a language is by using it in real life. (We also believe that having a bottle of wine in your house at all times is a must.) To help you get that real-life experience, we put together this dialogue for you. Unlike…

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Dialogue: A Candlelight Dinner (Cena a lume di candela)

A Candlelight Dinner (Cena a lume di candela)

At The Iceberg Project, we believe the only way you can truly learn a language is by using it in real life. (We also believe that prosecco is the perfect aperitivo drink.) To help you get that real-life experience, we put together this dialogue for you. It’s about a couple — one Italian and one…

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Three Essential Verbs for Beginners to Learn in Italian

3 Essential Verbs for Beginners to Learn in Italian

What are the two verbs that all Italian students learn first when they attend a course? “Essere – to be” & “avere – to have” These are both important verbs to learn in order to start putting sentences together. That being said, if you want to have more flexibility in what you can say early…

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Dialogue: Olive Oil Tasting in Orvieto

Dialogue: Olive Oil Tasting in Orvieto

At The Iceberg Project, we believe the only way you can truly learn a language is by using it in real life. (We also believe that having a bottle of wine in your house at all times is a must.) To help you get that real-life experience, we put together this dialogue for you. It’s…

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How to Say the Year and Century in Italian

I don’t know what it is about numbers, but for some reason, it takes me 45 months to learn them well, particularly when it comes to using them in bigger contexts, like saying the year, which certainly interrupts conversations that have to do with marking time periods. Here’s a quick lesson on how to do…

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

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. While many of us learning Italian want to learn to be conversational, a handful of us want to get as close as we can to sounding Italian, like honest-to-god native Italians, while we speak. We want…

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