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…
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…
Double Consonants in the Italian Language (or How to Avoid Mixing Up Anus and Year)
Oh, double consonants in Italian. Learning them is particularly important so we avoid you saying things you don’t mean…like mixing up “ano” with “anno,” or “anus” with “year.” Bonnie wrote on the Facebook page that she’s VERY conscious of this mistake. If you haven’t had a chance to learn the alphabet and practice the vowels…
The Alphabet in Italian {or how to make sure you’re understood speaking la bella lingua}
To be completely transparent, I don’t know if I was ever patient enough to sit down and learn the Italian alphabet…or any alphabet for that matter besides the one I was required to learn in English. This lack of education, however, has caused me enough pain to know that I should’ve just sat my butt…
How to Master the “R”, “GN” & “GLI” Sounds in Italian
When you start speaking Italian, you’ll notice that your mouth won’t exactly function properly with all of the sounds…and even if it does, it may take way longer than it does in English. Totally normal. The mouth is a muscle and needs to be conditioned to do the right moves just like the rest of…
How to Pronounce Everything in Italian (&how to hone your accent to amazingness)
I’m a big fan of throwing people into the mix right away without setting a whole lotta’ foundation in place. While I do understand that a period of silence is necessary, I would rather not spend too much time with my little Asian nose buried in grammar books. So I’ve curated some of the best videos…