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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Several LearnItalianPod VIP Members, who go to Italy for business on a regular basis, have requested one "Travel Survival" episode all dedicated to the language of business. You asked, we listened! -- This time, let's get down to business and let's practice a lot of useful, ready-to-use Italian words, [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - According to the feedback received, everyone seems to like this "Travel Survival" series and find it very useful, so... here's more! This time, let's go back into "travel survival mode" and let's practice a lot of useful, ready-to-use Italian words, sentences, and expressions that you can use in many [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Let's go back into "travel survival mode" and let's practice a lot of useful, ready-to-use Italian words, sentences, and expressions that you can use in many different occasions when dealing with everything related to money while in Italy: from paying at the cash register, to exchanging money, to taking [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Film dubbing is a big business in Italy. Almost all foreign movies are dubbed, and they are dubbed so well and so consistently that it is common for a single dubber to shadow the career of a foreign movie star for years. All major Hollywood stars are associated with [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Talking on the phone can represent the ultimate challenge for someone learning a foreign language. In fact, on the phone you only rely on tone of voice and the words spoken, and you don't have body language to assist you in understanding. That's why talking on the phone in [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - One of the things that caught our attention while reviewing a long list of Italian sayings is how many of them, and surely some of the most famous ones, are made up using animal names. "Pulce" (flea), "mosca" (fly), "cane" (dog), "gatto" (cat), "elefante" (elephant), and "lupo" (wolf) are [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Some says that the only two things you need when visiting Italy are "stomaco vuoto" (an empty stomach), and "un grande appetito" (a big appetite). It is a very well known fact that Italian meals can be long multi-course affairs, particularly when visiting, staying with a family, or celebrating [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - This time, get ready for something special as we're going to finally answer, once and for all, to an enigma that has bothered mankind forever, and we're going to do it while learning a lot of useful Italian. Here's the question: "e' nato prima l'uovo o la gallina?" (in [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - "Carosello" (in English: "Carousel" or "Merry-Go-Round"), was a very famous ten-minute advertising program broadcasted every evening from 8:50 to 9:00 PM on Italian national TV, and it ran for twenty years straight from the late Fifties until the late Seventies. "Carosello" was a huge success and, for [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Episode #30 of the "Upper-Intermediate Level Series" is entitled "The Best Summer Vacation Ever". Summertime, time for vacation! For those visiting Italy, there's a wealth of choice of things to do and to see. Sea, mountain, cities, monuments, art, and food are just some of the many Italian attractions. So, [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Several VIP Members (thank you Luis, Sandra, and Carmen) have requested that we dedicate a lesson to the hugely common Italian little words "NE" and "CI". Just listen to two native Italians speaking and good chances are you will hear the two little words "NE" and "CI" repeated [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - This time, let's talk about love! - LearnItalianPod VIP Member Carolina, who is from New York but studies in Verona, Italy, sent us a terrific email. - She says: "Every day on my way to school I pass by the most famous balcony in the world: Juliet's balcony. [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - We have said several times how important it is to learn and practice verbs and it is a known fact that your knowledge of verbs will truly determine your real level of Italian language. So today, let's have fun by learning and practicing three super important Italian verbs [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - VIP Member Giuseppe from Atlanta, Georgia sent us one of the most unusual emails that we have ever received. He says: "My good friend Tom and I are going to be leaving for Italy in a couple of weeks for the trip of a lifetime. - We're both [...]

Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com -- VIP Member Luna sent us some great feedback. She says: "If there's one word in the Italian language that's truly used everywhere, that is the small word "che"... and what makes it interesting (and somewhat confusing!), is that this small little word can have several different functions within a sentence. [...]