Meeting and Greeting in Italian

by Dawn Storey on July 14, 2012

Welcome (or welcome back!), and thank you for joining me on this fun and exciting ride that is all things Italian. I hope you’re practicing all the things you’ve been learning! Let’s do a quick inventory of the knowledge we’ve picked up to date, shall we? [click to continue…]

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Italian Learning Technique: Audiobooks

by Dawn Storey on July 1, 2012

No matter where you might place yourself on the Italian language learning spectrum, from rank beginner learning your A-Bi-Cis to fluent speaker who sometimes dreams in Italian (oh, how I wish I was at that stage!), a great activity [click to continue…]

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Italian Language Basics: The Alphabet

by Dawn Storey on June 30, 2012

Let’s start at the very beginning
a very good place to start!
When you read, you begin with A, B, C…

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Featured Post on Here Women Talk

by Dawn Storey on June 23, 2012

Many thanks to Here Women Talk for featuring my Insalata di Alfabeto post Italian Pronunciation: You say potato, I say patata on [click to continue…]

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The joy of Italian meals

by Dawn Storey on June 21, 2012

My husband and I love watching an Italian cooking show called Lidia’s Italy. Even if we’ve just finished eating our own dinner, the delectable food she’s preparing never fails to make our stomachs growl and mouths water! After watching the program [click to continue…]

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Italian Pronunciation: You say potato, I say patata

by Dawn Storey on June 17, 2012

How many times have you dined in an Italian restaurant where you discovered, much to your discomfort and dismay, that all the names of the items on the menu were written in Italian… and you had no idea how to pronounce anything? [click to continue…]

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Made in Italy

June 12, 2012

My Italian mom is a fantastic cook. No matter what or how many ingredients she may have on hand… no matter how little time or notice she may have been given… no matter if unexpected guests turn up wanting to be fed… she always,

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Andiamo! Let’s go!

June 10, 2012

The seeds for this blog were sown during a casual conversation with my mom on Christmas Day back in 2010, when I asked if she’d ever consider going back to her village in Italy for another visit. My younger sister, who had been

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