Holidays and Celebrations

Halloween

Italian Halloween vocabulary
Halloween is not an Italian holiday, but learning the Italian translations for Halloween vocabulary can be fun, especially for younger students. Happy Halloween!

Articles

Complex Sounds

S impuraIn Italian, consonants can be divided into pure and impure sounds (or simple and complex sounds). While both types can occur anywhere in a word, they only really matter, grammatically speaking, at the beginning of masculine nouns.

Pronunciation Guides

I

Italian alphabetWhen by itself or accented, the Italian letter I is pronounced “ee” as in see or fee.

   

   

   

Food and Drink

Food

Italian food
Food is a necessity, and can also be a source of great pleasure. Being able to talk about Italian food will come in handy while shopping, dining, traveling, and entertaining friends, so check out this vocab list for Italian food, including the basic food groups and related verbs. Buon appetito!

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Verbs

Essere – to be

Essere - Italian verbEssere is the most common verb in the Italian language, used to describe many aspects of being.

   

Teachers' Tips and Tools

Google Classroom + Lawless Italian

Lawless ItalianI’m happy to announce that you can easily share any Lawless Italian page to your Google Classroom. Just navigate to the page you want to share and click the rightmost icon in the sidebar – the sharing dialog will open and you can choose your classroom.

Vocabulary Lists

Weather

Italian weather
Understanding Italian weather terms is useful for deciding what to wear, planning what to do, and, of course, making small talk.

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