The effort that makes you happy: studying Italian20200528064023

The effort that makes you happy: studying Italian

Let’s start with the Italian proverb: ‘Sbagliando, s’impara’ by making mistakes one learns. We also say that it is neither necessary to have an ...
Digital solidarity: Italyamo cares about your learning20200514062823

Digital solidarity: Italyamo cares about your learning

Italian is very important to us. You are very important to us. In addition to our courses, today we want to talk about many online resources available...
Made in Italy20200430070539

Made in Italy

At this moment it is very difficult to imagine travelling or crossing Italy to improve the language or knowledge of its culture. That’s why toda...
Italian language: the color of twenty regions20200416072031

Italian language: the color of twenty regions

As Serianni (2019) writes, the Italian lexicon could be schematized by a pyramid whose layers are made up of formations inside the system, of Latinism...
Italyamo’s lessons20200402082810

Italyamo’s lessons

As we wrote on our blog, it is easy to imagine that, growing up with a traditional school or at least in presence on site, it is hard to imagine learn...
Italyamo’s lesson plan!20200317100401

Italyamo’s lesson plan!

It is hard to buy a closed-box online course. Even when you can see some examples of material, we are never sure if it will be really effective or sui...
Pesce fuor d’acqua and other fish idioms!20200228090356

Pesce fuor d’acqua and other fish idioms!

Sometimes when I speak a foreign language I feel like a “pesce fuor d’acqua” . And so I end up being “muto come un pesce”. How many ways to say fish...
Barking dogs seldom bite20200218072636

Barking dogs seldom bite

A few articles ago (‘”Perdere la testa” and other idiomatic expressions‘, ‘Have you got brains? Avere cervello and other...
Non c’è due senza tre20200123060739

Non c’è due senza tre

There are really a lot of idiomatic expressions with numbers, but how to work with them and where to find good resources to acquire them? Let’s ...
Italian idioms: Chi ha fatto trenta può fare trentuno20200121060852

Italian idioms: Chi ha fatto trenta può fare trentuno

As you know, in order to understand a language, we must know what the idioms in that language mean. If we try to figure out the meaning of an idiom li...