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Watching a film in Italian, either at home or in class, is one of my students’ favourite activities to improve their language. And who can blame them!  Films provide full immersion in Italian culture! Let’s start with the soundtrack. Italy has some truly great film score composers (or ‘maestri‘) who are now almost as famous […]

Starting from the first lessons, it’s funny seeing how many mistakes can be made when we literally translate from English into Italian or viceversa. The real, everyday language that we use with our friends is quite different from the language we learn in class.  It can be full of idiomatic expressions and aphorisms which we learn and become familiar with the more […]