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The Iceberg Project was created from a desire to travel to Italy & speak the language with ease, comfort and confidence. Now, you'll find addictive language & culture lessons for students eager to become conversational in Italian.

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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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How to Buy Clothes in Italy (or How to Buy a Coat to Keep You From Succumbing to Hypothermia)

How to Buy Clothes in Italy (or How to buy a Coat to keep you from Succumbing to Hypothermia)

I have previously discussed having to adjust to the weather in Italy, although not in great detail. I come from Las Vegas. Seasons? What are those? In Las Vegas, you wear shorts in the summer and pants in the winter. There isn’t really ever a need for layering or rain boots or big winter parkas….

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Present Tense Reflexive Verbs in Italian (or the verb tense that’s all about you)

Present Tense Reflexive Verbs in italian (or the verb tense that's all about you)

Reflexive verbs are probably the most narcissistic grammar form in Italian. It changes just to show that what you’re doing…you’re doing to yourself. (If you’re thinking dirty, stop it.) So examples of where reflexive verbs are used are in situations like: — Lavarsi – Washing yourself — Vedersi – Looking at yourself — Divertirsi – Enjoy yourself —…

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9 Phrases for Talking About Your Business in Italian

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. While learning all of the basics for Italian is absolutely essential, it doesn’t always lead straight to having conversations that express much of who you are. So without having to learn all of the tenses and…

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

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. No, that isn’t a spinoff title for a Denise Austin exercise video. Okay, well sort of. But the point is that many of us like to procrastinate and not study Italian until we realize that we…

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4 Phrases for Curving the Conversation Back to Italian

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. Picture this. You go to Italy after months of learning and practicing Italian. Your very first conversation in Italian is with the guy selling train tickets at the airport in Rome. You ask him for two…

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

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. When I started learning Italian one of the phrases I always wanted to know how to say was “I wonder,” as in “I wonder where we’re going tomorrow” or “I wonder what he was talking to…

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What It Means to Enjoy the Process of Learning Italian

If there is one thing I harp on the most, it’s that we deserve to enjoy the process of learning Italian. But what does that really mean? What does enjoying the process look like? Making Art It means that each moment you spend devoting yourself to Italian becomes a form of expression. Learning a language…

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8 People Who Do Italian Online Better Than Anyone Else

The interwebs are a vast, interesting, unique place and that kind of ecosystem attracts a lot of really awesome people doing really amazing things. Since The Iceberg Project is dedicated to bringing you the best resources for learning Italian, I wanted to put together a list of the people I think are doing Italian online…

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You know you’re obsessed with Italian when…

You dream in Italian. You daydream about dreaming in Italian. You change the language of every electronic device and all of your social media accounts into Italian. You start saying “Ciao” and “Grazie” to all of your friends. You book a holiday to Italy every year. You start answering “Boh” to questions you don’t know….

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

Click play on the player at the bottom to listen to this podcast or find it on Apple Podcasts. When I started this website, I had already been to Italy. Simply put, the “had already been” is the trapassato prossimo tense in English. “Trapassato prossimo” sounds incredibly fancy and difficult when it comes to tenses…

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The Biggest Differences Between Written and Spoken Italian

When it comes to learning a language, what they don’t tell you is that it’s more than just learning how to speak the language because you often need to learn how to write the language, too. That might seem simple, but when you get into it, you realize that writing in a foreign language, particularly…

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