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🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Lang 🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Language Tip! Read the latest Studentessa Matta Blog Post about Italo Calvino’s novel “Il Barone Rampante.” Learn new ways to study Italian, words like — RAMPANTE (cavallo rampante, giovane rampante)and RAMPICANTE (piante rampicanti) Discover the curious expression: ARRAMPICARSI SUGLI SPECCHI Espressione curiosa che significa: To climb mirrors. “Arrampicarsi sugli specch”means trying desperately to justify oneself with weak, flimsy, or impossible arguments. The image is perfect: attempting to climb a smooth, slippery mirror, finding no foothold, and inevitably sliding back down. In English, similar ideas include: to make desperate attempt, flimsy excuses, to grasp at straws, to try to justify the unjustifiable, oppure to attempt something logically impossible or futile. Discover more on the http://StudentessaMatta.com website, study and travel with Melissa and take your Italian language skills further! #StudentessaMatta #LearnItalian #ItalianWithCalvino #TheBaronInTheTrees #ItalianLiterature ItalianVocabulary
Muldoon 🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Ital Muldoon 🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Language Tip! Take the Playful Path to Learning Italian! Imagining “What If…” in Italian How to express hypothetical or unreal ideas When you want to express a hypothetical or unreal idea in Italian, you often use the periodo ipotetico, the Italian “if” structure. In English, we say things like: If dinosaurs lived in Rome, I would go to the Colosseum. Italian can do this in several ways, depending on your level. For beginning students, don’t panic and don’t wrestle the subjunctive dragon yet. You can still express “what if” ideas using simpler structures using present and future tenses. Advanced students can gallop straight into the glorious grammatical empire of the congiuntivo, where hypothetical dinosaurs roam freely! Beginner-Friendly Options You can use se + present tense + future tense for a simple, possible idea. Se i dinosauri vivono a Roma, andrò al Colosseo e sceglierò un dinosauro come animale domestico. If dinosaurs live in Rome, I will go to the Colosseum and choose a dinosaur as a pet. For More Advanced Students Use se + congiuntivo imperfetto + condizionale presente for an imaginary situation in the present. Se i dinosauri vivessero a Roma, andrei al Colosseo e sceglierei un dinosauro come animale domestico. If dinosaurs lived in Rome, I would go to the Colosseum and choose a dinosaur as a pet. Use se + congiuntivo trapassato + condizionale passato for an unreal situation in the past. Se Didone avesse sorvolato Cartagine sul dorso di uno pterodattilo gigante, avrebbe visto tutto il suo regno dall’alto. If Dido had flown over Carthage on the back of a giant pterodactyl, she would have seen her whole kingdom from above. Read the latest http://Studentessamatt.com article about Emanuele Aloia’s song Cartagine and a Playful Path to Learning Italian EmanueleAloia #Cartagine #LearnItalian #ItalianMusic
Cartagine: la musica di Emanuele Aloia, la storia Cartagine: la musica di Emanuele Aloia, la storia e imparare l’italiano in modo creativo Cartagine: Emanuele Aloia's music, history and Learning Italian Creatively Un amore grande come un impero A love as vast as an empire Con la sua canzone Cartagine, Emanuele Aloia ci porta in un viaggio in cui l’amore non è solo un sentimento, ma una forza che attraversa il tempo. #Aeneas #ArtHistory #Cartagine #Carthage #Congiuntivo #Dido #EmanueleAloia #ItalianCulture #Italiangrammar #italianlanguage #ItalianMusic #LanguageLearning #LearnItalian #StudentessaMatta https://www.studentessamatta.com/emanuele-aloia-cartagine-learn-creatively-italian-music-history-endless-love/
Il finale che non c’era… e quello che ho scritto i Il finale che non c’era… e quello che ho scritto io The Ending That Wasn’t… and the One I Wrote Myself Un anno con Ricciardi A Year with Ricciardi Per quasi un anno mi sono lasciata conquistare dal mondo del Commissario Ricciardi, un personaggio di fiction creato da Maurizio de Giovanni. #BookLovers #CommissarioRicciardi #FanFiction #Italianbooks #ItalianCulture #LearnItalian #MauriziodeGiovanni #Napoli #StudentessaMatta https://www.studentessamatta.com/commissario-ricciardi-fan-fiction-matta-epilogue/
Ciao from San Francisco! Siamo tornati! Ciao from San Francisco! Siamo tornati!
🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Lang 🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Language Tip! Vuoi smettere di flirtare con l’italiano e fidanzarti sul serio? Want to stop flirting with Italian and get engaged instead? From Passive to Powerful: How to Finally Start Speaking Italian with Confidence A word does not become yours when you simply recognize it on a page. It becomes yours when you sit with it and absorb it, use it, play with it, and make it part of your life. Here’s your daily Matta mini-challenge: 1. LEARN 3 NEW WORDS A DAY. But do not just admire them like pretty little souvenirs. Put each one into THREE sentences out loud so your brain begins to hear them, feel them, and remember them. 2. NARRATE ONE SMALL MOMENT OF YOUR DAY IN ITALIAN. Talk to yourself as if you were telling a tiny story. Describe your coffee, your walk, your grumpy mood, your missing sock, your heroic trip to the grocery store. Small moments are where real language starts to live. 3. WRITE 5 WHIMSICAL SENTENCES IN ITALIAN EVERY DAY. Make them strange. Make them funny. Make them unforgettable. Ask things like: What would cows say if they could talk? If dogs took over the world, what would they do first? What would Dante have said to Shakespeare over dinner? The more playful and personal your practice is, the more the language sticks. Italian loves attention. Give it a little every day, and before long, it will start talking back. Read the Matta Post about moving from PASSIVE to ACTIVE language learning. https://www.studentessamatta.com/active-vs-passive-italian-learning-speak-with-confidence/ #italianlanguage #italianfluency #speakitalian #languagelearning #languagelearningtips italianpractice learnitalianonline

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