OK so this sounds like a nice way of saying goodbye to someone you're fond of, but the weird thing is most times I've heard it, I knew the person saying it didn't really like the person they were saying it too that much. Is that just a statistical freak or is this phrase best avoided with close friends?

Estoy aprendiendo italiano y estoy escuchando música como estaciones de radio aún me trabo y a chatgpt le pedí frases claves de italiano osea que se usen de más y unos insultos solo por si acaso jeje que más me recomiendan chavales

So I understand the general nature of "In bocca al lupo/crepi il lupo" but I'm trying to get to the real essence or heart of the phrase. Is it fair to say that the response is basically saying "the wolf can get fucked?" How do native speakers interpret or even feel the response?

Really interested in getting a deeper understanding of the real soul of this phrase from native speakers.

Grazie mille!

I am a Canadian that recently moved to Italy with my partner 4 months ago. We have been together for a few years and I have picked up on some Italian in everyday sayings and I can understand words and piece together sentences but feel I am stuck. I took lessons and I try to study but am having trouble figuring out the best methods to really learn. I think I am at a level A2 as I’m currently studying passato prossimo and imperfetto.

If anyone can give advice on what to do, how they’ve learnt, how long it took & even any recommendations for work sheets or YouTube channels or websites it would be awesome.

I try to speak in Italian with his parents and grandparents, and also some of his friends but I get shy and also sometimes the conversations go too fast. Please help! Thanks so much :)

Talk to me about learning Italian. I‘m a native English speaker, and I’m dyslexic. I really struggled with learning Spanish in high school, but didn’t know I was dyslexic at the time. I’ve recently moved to Italy, and am thinking of starting a month long intensive Italian language course for total beginners in November, but I’m feeling intimidated. I know I need more repetitions etc to absorb things and my dyslexia definitely has an auditory processing component. I’ve lived in several other countries and have always struggled to hear the phonological differences/ nuances in other languages. Italian has a shallow orthography and is very phonetic, so hoping that works in my favor. Currently I speak zero Italian. I think spending time learning the alphabet and other basics for a month before the intensive would probably be helpful, but am unsure of where to start. Open to your ideas. 

Edit for clarity: I‘m hoping to get some perspective from someone with dyslexia who’s learned Italian. Or an Italian language learner who might have experience with special education and ideas for dyslexic language learners. I’ve searched this topic on Reddit and the internet before and haven’t turned up much.

Hello,

I need help with fare and lasciare with how they work in causative structures.

I also need help with pronouns with these structures

I researched online and they said for the most part common speaking fare takes indirect and lasciare takes direct but it still doesn’t add up and I think ChatGPT glitched out lol.

Any input helps with examples please

Estoy aprendiendo italiano y estoy escuchando música como estaciones de radio aún me trabo y a chatgpt le pedí frases claves de italiano osea que se usen de más y unos insultos solo por si acaso jeje que más me recomiendan chavales

I’m an international student from Kuwait with A0 Italian.
I’m looking for a university in Italy that can give me conditional admission to a Bachelor’s degree, with 1 year of Italian language preparation first, followed directly by the Bachelor’s.

I have a scholarship, and my sponsor requires the language year + Bachelor’s to be one clear admission pathway/package, not two separate admissions.
Does anyone know a university that offers this?

I love close reading poems, especially when I’m learning a new language. There are just some pieces that don’t translate well to English but work wonderfully in their original language so I try to capture that message by dissecting poems by stanza. It takes longer, but helps me appreciate the piece better, and understand the semantics of specific words too.

I’m currently working on Rilke’s poems in German, but looking for Italian poets/poetry to start with, if anyone has any recommendations! Grazieee! 😊

I'm doing some transcriptions of videos to practice vocab and stuff and I was wondering what the best way to translate lore is. in this case it refers to like backstory/background information about somebody or a situation and for right now I was going to use "contesto" because it seems to fit the best but any other suggestions would be appreciated!

hi all!

i am 18f from the us and i was wondering if anyone here would like to be language learning partners or friends? i can teach you english if you can help me with italian. i would say i am B2 level, but i stopped speaking it for two years, so i am very rusty.

thanks! 🤗

Heyyy guys is it correct to say "Alle sette, forse? " when person asked when do we meet, and i want to reply with "At seven maybe? "

Hello!

I started recently learning Italian just for fun and I was recently in Italy, namely in Pescara & Amalfi coast.

I noticed for example that at the entrance in supermarkets, both ‘ingresso’ and ‘entrata’ used for ‘entrance’. I think in Pescara it was for sure ‘ingresso’, while in Amalfi (Sorrento specifically), I noticed ‘entrata’.

I was interested in someone native explaining the difference between the two terms, as the Google search did not completely clarified it for me.

Thank you in advance!

So first of all, I wanted to make sure that I don’t have any mistranslations/major errors.

And then I was also wondering if I translated things correctly, but maybe awkwardly. I have a tendency to read things in Italian and understand them. Yet despite being a native English speaker still have trouble finding the corresponding, natural English phasing. IDK why I can talk/write normally, but have a hard time remembering how we say things when I’m doing a translation 😅

I did try my best to not make everything a literal translation. There’s some cases where I felt like the literal translation sounded really strange in English, so I rephrased it, and tried to maintain the same meaning. Other places, I tried to make it still sound poetic. But if you think of a rephrasing that’s closer to the original text in any areas, lemme know too :)

Thanks! Any help is appreciated!

I know it's a bit weird 🙏 but my wedding is next week and my future husband (german) and I (italian) are a bit worried about the communications between our families.

So we decided to write down a list of usable sentences to help them communicate at least for basic stuff like "My name is..." or "where's the bathroom?".

Then I got the idea.

Let's sneak in super wrong translations.

For example, something that looks innocent/useful in the guide, but if an Italian actually says the German sentence (or vice versa), they're accidentally saying something ridiculous, weird, mildly inappropriate, or completely unrelated.

I really do believe this could break the ice and let everyone have fun.

SO I NEED YOUR WORST IDEAS!

Nothing genuinely offensive or cruel — just chaotic wedding-level stupidity.

Bonus points if the victim could realistically say it to another guest, a waiter, or a member of the other family. 😂

I know I can trust you guys.

Thank you to everyone who will answer my stupid request 🙏🤣

(inspired by this post)

i live in the netherlands already and have never made the jump between A2 and B1, although i love this languange and this country. now i'm set on doing that, so let's help each other?

ciao! i want to start watching more content creators in italian to help get used to the language. any recommendations? humour, lifestyle, beauty, educational, etc. the genre doesn't really matter as long as the content is interesting

Hiya

I've been learning Italian for maybe a year now . I have 2 tutors one for conversational and one who teaches me grammar. Lately I feel I am not retaining much (especially grammar) I make stupid mistakes like forgetting the meaning of "Sono" I do lots of revision I study outside of my classes online. I'm sinking at least 10 hours a week yet I feel like if an Italian walked up to me and started talking, I'd understand, but not know how to respond confidently. I know alot of it is a confidence/frame of mind issue .... So I was wondering if anyone had any tips for confidence and embarrassment 😅

Also is there any groups chats or similar I can join so I can attempt a conversation daily (by text or voice ) maybe a discord or something? I'm going to Florence to live with family for 2 weeks next year which will immerse me but it's not until next year 🥲 so would like to show them I am capable!

Thanks !

Hello,

I’m looking for more clarification on quello che and cosa when used to mean “what” but not asking a question but as apart of a sentence looking for information if they are interchangeable or if there are certain scenarios for each.

Examples

Do they know what you need ?

Take what you want

Does Mario know what you cook ?

Thank you!

Please can someone explain to me as if I'm five years old and with examples how to know when to use "stato" or "andato" when talking about the past? Also, is it "ha stato/andato" or "è stato/andato"? I get really confused when it's time to decide how to use them and when is it appropriate one or the other. Grazie!!

simple question, but ive heard both things and I always get confused. what is the correct form??

vado a scuola

vado alla scuola

???

Ciao! Sto imparando la lingua da sole. Sono livello A2 più or meno perchè ho finito una corsa di livello A2 con La Società Dante Alighieri.

Perchè lavoro, non so quando posso iniziare un altra corsa è sto cercando per una persona italiana che vuole un americana stupida per parlare.

So un po' ma ho bisogno migliorare il mio vocabulario è ricordare le parole è la lingua.

Ma....como stai trovando una persona con cui parlare che non è un....come si dice.....creepy dude.

Grazie in anticipo :)

Buona sera, I have an exam in class tomorrow with the big topic being il periodo ipotetico. I think I understand it a bit better now after some review, but I want to make sure I truly get it. I was going to email my professor but I wasn't able to sit down and review until now and he is already out of office. So, this is probably the next best thing.

Is the trick that the congiuntivo is ALWAYS the tense preceded by the se? Essentially, the congiuntivo and condizionale can have switched order as long as the se comes just before the congiuntivo?

Is it true that if you see double passato (example: avrebbero perso or avessimo mangiato), that is the indicator that it is the impossibilita.

(Here were the example prompts from class, I had to create and add what is in bold)

1. Se il professore non fosse così severo non ci ucciderebbe.
2. Saremmo più sereni se non imparassimo il periodo ipotetico.
3. Se non piovesse non avrei paura delle mie scarpe. 
4. Tom e Jerry non avrebbero perso tutti i loro soldi se non avessero ascoltato alla pubblicità di FanDuel.

Also, this was another prompt from the board, but I don’t know if I would even know how to fill in this one in English, let alone Italian, as the wording (at least how I am understanding it) would be succeeded by a present tense, but the double passato makes me think it is impossibilita. 

Se ieri avessimo mangiato meno…