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Learning Italian: Three Italian Phrases that Don’t Translate Well into English
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Living in a foreign language takes work. It is never boring, sometimes amusing and often downright appalling. Verb tenses, grammatical errors, unclear phrases … It can overwhelm.
But at some point the Italianisms creep into your mind and attach to the dull gray matter in your brain, rendering you … no, not bilingual … [...]
Six Italian Idioms You Can Learn Today
They say the English language is full of idioms and expressions just waiting to trip up ESL students and send them running for cover.
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And they are right. We have some doozies.
“It’s raining cats and dogs!” Yikes
Italians would think they were in a bad Spike Lee flick, cross themselves and get started on the [...]
