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WTI Magazine #53    2015 February, 6Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Let's continue to explore the vowel usage in the Italian language. We already told that Italian has 7 vowels and that they differ in four degrees of opening (open, closed, semi-closed and semi-open). Another feature that Italian has inherit...

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  WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : Giosué Prezioso      Translation by:   In Italian, "mo" is a colloquial everyday-life adverb meaning "now", "in this moment". It sounds highly-conversational and rather vernacular, being in fact avoided in formal circumstances and in certain regions of Italy itself. However, its origin is impressive...

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WTI Magazine #7    2013 Nov, 29Author : Alessandro Masi      Translation by:   In ancient greek "TESSARA" meant "four" and the adjective "tessaràgonos" described quadrangular objects. Among the Latin the shorten form "tessera" was used for example for nuts, tickets, vouchers to get food. A little bit like for us: c...

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  WTI Magazine #38    2014 July, 9Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Speak as you eat!When it comes to Italy the thought always goes to art, culture, history, folklore ... the different beauties of our country are so many that a conversation about them could last for hours and hours. Yet there is an art that...

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WTI Magazine #5    2013 Nov, 15Author : Alessandro Masi      Translation by:   From the Latin cum-promittere, meaning "taking together", or better "taking the commitment to do something together". Not a bad thing in itself, at least for the Romans. But you know, the story is not always progress-oriented: today the...

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  WTI Magazine #76    2016 February 15Author : Giosuè Prezioso      Translation by:   Stereotypically, Italy is the country of the good food, fashion, art, music and, more generally, of culture. Dante Alighieri, the Poet par excellence, defined it the "Bel Paese", meaning the "Beautiful Country", as in fact did Kahlil Gibran - stating that "The...

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  WTI Magazine #71    2015 October, 30Author : Torre di Babele      Translation by:   Why people like to study Italian? Art, culture, music, food and wine: is all Italy and Italian language can offer? Why the language of a small like this is that important in the world, to be one the most widely taught languages in the world? If you are interest...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   As we have already pointed out in other occasions, the idioms contribute to enrich the Italian lexicon and constitute one of the most important sectors of our language. Today we talk about the word "rompere" (to break), discovering some...

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  WTI Magazine #79    2016 May 13Author : Giosuè Prezioso      Translation by:   We are in May, and soon, in a couple of weeks, we will be enjoying longer days, hotter weeks, and more pleasant mornings: summer is coming! However, 'summer' does not strictly mean 'sun' and 'sunbathing', 'beach' and 'gelato', summer may also mean t-w-e-n-t-y-f-o-u-...

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WTI Magazine #58    2015 April, 17Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Today we continue to explore the pronominal forms of the Italian language. Let's focus on personal pronouns: as we will see, they can have function either as a subject or as a complement. In the first case, the subject expressed by the variou...

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