Let's speak Italiano

🇮🇹😃Exciting opportunity ahead😃🇮🇹

Are you looking to learn to speak Italian?
Let's speak Italiano will be offering evening Italian classes starting on Monday 27th May here at the Dunblane Centre. Perfect if you have an upcoming holiday or would just like to learn more of this beautiful language.
Booking details are on attached flyer and available by contacting Davide direct by his page Let's speak Italiano

Next Monday evening Davide will be here to answer any questions and explain how the course works so please come along and find out more before committing to the course.
Monday 20th May 7-8pm

😎Buongiorno e Buon anno a tutti!😎

We are ready to restart the classes from the 8th so...

Come and join us!

Online beginners classes spaces available for immediate start!

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Ciao everyone 😁😁😁

Beginner 2 class is now complete and will be starting tonight! Exciting!
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Roll on the next intake of students for the courses starting on January 2024!!!

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Looking for a Christmas present out of the ordinary? Something useful instead of the usual unthought minders?
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What about one of our 10 Lessons packages?

It's convenient , fun and includes:

✅ All material such as text books 📚, podcasts🔉 and online practical exercises;
✅ Being part of a small group of students at your same level
✅ Practising your speaking whilst learning from a structured text book and from real life scenarios
✅ Ongoing support from us regarding your learning but not only that, our Italian experience extends to holidays, work experience in Italy and holiday/studying in qualified Italian schools
✅ professionalism, tailored lessons and lots of fun!
✅ and to finish...first 1 hour lesson is always free!

Get in touch today!
And if you have any questions...please...
LEAVE US A MESSAGE!

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BREAKING NEWS!🔊🔊🔊⚠️⚠️⚠️

Sunday Beginner 1 class is now full ⚜️⚜️⚜️ That was quick!😊😊😊
Thanks for all of you that signed up

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New Sunday Beginner 2 will be starting after October school holidays! 👍👍💯

Interested? 🧐

Get in touch, limited spaces available!

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So...quick update!🧐🧐🧐

The Beginners 1 Zoom class has started off last week and it is going great 😃👍

I am about to start planning the new Beginners classes which will be starting after the October break🤟🙏🤟

If you are interested or even if you fancy coming along for the first free hour lesson then contact us! ⚜️⚜️🤗🤗

The more the merrier....🇬🇧
Più si è meglio è....🇮🇹

Call us!

Arrivederci 🇮🇹🙂😉

Aaaaaaaaaannnnnddddd we are back!
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Lessons are open again!
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Private Italian lessons🇮🇹
For all levels✅
All material privided and if you book quickly the first lesson is totally free! 😁
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For info contact me directly on this page!

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Let's learn un po' di grammatica!
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➡️Pronomi Riflessivi :

IO➡️MI
TU➡️TI
LUI O LEI➡️SI
NOI➡️CI
VOI➡️VI
ESSI O LORO➡️SI

Example: 🤓🤓🤓🤓

Io mi chiamo Davide
Tu ti chiami Gino
Lui si è svegliato
Lei si è truccata molto bene
Noi ci siamo conosciuti a Torino
Voi vi siete divertiti molto
Loro si sono sentiti per telefono

BUON FINE ED INIZIO ANNO
from Let's Speak Italiano!
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Why is it called San Silvestro? 🤔🤔🤔

Well....in Italy for every day of the year, there is one or more Saint celebrated.

Italians use the term ONOMASTICO to refer to your giorno onomastico, 'name day', which most people cut down to simply l'onomastico. According to the Italian Catholic traditions, your name day is the feast day of whichever saint you're named after (because naturally you're named after a saint).

For example, two days ago it was mine.
29th December is San Davide 😁🎂

From my Casa to your Casa,

Have a great celebration and let's hope for normality to come back presto, anzi prestissimo! ❤️👌❤️👌❤️

Ho ho ho
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Are we ready for Xmas?

Siamo pronti per Natale?

A bit of Vocabulary to stay on top of the game during the festive season 😊🎄

Un po di lessico per non perdere la voglia di imparare italiano!☺️🎄

Looking for a new year resolution?
How about learning a new language?
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Get in touch with us,
First 1 hour lesson is free!
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🇮🇹Ciaooooooooooooooo!🇮🇹
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New poster is out👍
Just in time for Christmas!🎅🎅

Looking for a present a bit different?
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Have you thought of one of our lesson packages?

We do block of 5, 10, 15 and 20 lessons,
Prepaid and with personalised voucher attached!😊😊

Oh... I almost forgot...
FIRST ONE HOUR LESSON IS FREE! 😳😳

Lessons are online only, personalised and for every level, from the comfort of your home and always with a smile! 😉

For any questions get in touch,

A presto

Davide

And after 2 years....
It was time to visit the home country again!🇮🇹

Famiglia, amici e tanto mangiare.....
That's Amore! 😊😊😊😊

I'm on the way back to Scotland,
Courses to restart soon and still a few spaces available for new students!💪

Get in touch,
First lesson is free! 🍹🍹🍹🍹

Italian Grammar!
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What a nightmare for most of us!
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Is it that difficult?

My answer is

YES, AT TIMES IT CAN BE BUT...
MOST OF THE TIME IT IS NOT!
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Verbs are one of those part of the language that we can't really skip so...
Here a simple table with the most used Italian verbal forms💡💡💡

Fancy learning italian with a Native Italian speaker?
Get in touch with
LET'S SPEAK ITALIANO ❤️🇮🇹

🍹🍹FIRST LESSON IS FREE🎉🎉

Ciaoooooooo a tuttiiiiiii!🎉🎉

Schools are back and so us at Let's speak Italiano! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

We have a few spaces left for group lessons, level absolute beginner, which I am planning to start at the end of August.

Fancy taking part?
First 1 hour lesson is free 😊😎😉
Have a think about it and meantime try to practice the Italian alphabet from the picture above! 👆

For any questions don't hesitate to get in touch!

A presto,

Ciaooooooooo
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Bene, bene, bene😃
Oggi facciamo un po di vocabolario! 💪🇮🇹
Ecco una lista di verbi molto usati nella lingua italiana😎👌

All right😃
Today we do a little bit of Vocabulary! 💪🇮🇹
Here is a list of verbs that are used very often in conversation 😎👌

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Fancy to learn the language of love?
Not sure at what level you are at and perhaps want to improve your skills?
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Get in touch with us! 🇮🇹❤️🙂🇮🇹❤️🇮🇹😊
First one hour lesson is free!
[email protected]😉

Ciao Italian students! 🇮🇹🇮🇹😃😃

A bit of Vocabulary to keep improving our skills!💪
Today we look at the CONTRARI, or opposites!

Can you tell me any other Contrari?

I start....

BELLO/BRUTTO.

Write them in the comments!

Ciaoooooooooo🎇🎇🎇🎇

Buongiorno!
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Cosa bevi al mattino con la tua colazione?
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What do you drink with your breakfast in the morning?

Espresso?☕
Cappuccino?☕☕
Latte macchiato? ☕☕☕

Io prendo un espresso senza zucchero🙂
I take an espresso with no sugar 🙂

Let me know what you take!

Ah.....
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La pizza....
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What a fantastic discovery!
What about its history?
Who invented it?
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Napoli it's the home of the traditional Italian pizza and here it's the story about the most diffuse Italian food!

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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

The city of Naples in Italy is widely known to be the home of pizza. Napels was founded as early as the 16th-century. The majority of the population was very poor and so pizza – flatbread with toppings that was sold by street vendors and could be eaten for any meal – met the needs of Neapolitans as a food that could be eaten quickly and was cheap.

These early iterations of pizza were usually topped with a variety of things, such as tomatoes, cheese, olives, anchovies, and garlic. The famous French writer, Alexandre Dumas, even described the wide array and diversity of pizza toppings in 1843.

Margherita pizza at 11 Inch Pizza
INFLUENCE OF ROYALTY
The most popular account of the invention of the margherita pizza starts in 1861, which was the year Italy unified. In 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples, which had formerly been the capital of the southern kingdom.

Supposedly, Queen Margherita was bored of the gourmet French food that was, at the time, very popular with European royalty. As such, she summoned Raffaele Esposito, who was the most famous pizza-maker in Naples at the time. Queen Margherita commissioned Esposito to make three different pizzas for her.

Legend has it that the first two pizzas that Esposito and his wife made were not to the Queen’s tastes. These included pizza marinara, which featured garlic, and pizza Napoli, which featured anchovy. The third pizza—inspired by the colours of the Italian flag—the Queen approved. Esposito immediately named the pizza after Queen Margherita and asked her for a Royal Seal.

The note which a chamberlain sent to Esposito still hangs in the pizzeria he worked at, Pizzeria Brandi.

Buongiorno from Let's speak Italiano!
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We had a little break and a cheeky holiday with the family ❤️
👨‍👩‍👦LA FAMIGLIA È IMPORTANTE,
È IL BENE PIÙ PREZIOSO💙💜

Back to business today so...

✅CHE LAVORO FAI?
✅What do you do?
What's your occupation/job?

✅Faccio il pompiere
✅I am a fireman

Try ask each other the question and look for the right answer in the picture!

HAVING FUN! ENJOYING!

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How do you say that in Italian?🤔

DIVERTIRSI🇮🇹
PASSARE DEI BEI MOMENTI🇮🇹
STARE BENE🇮🇹

Here at Let's speak Italiano we have looooots of fun learning the language of Amore! ❤️

It's Fridayyyyyyy, then Saturday & Sunday! 🎶🎵🎼🎛️🎤🎧📻🎷🎸

Siamo pronti???
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Are we ready???
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Less than 2 hours to go before the Euros start! ⚽⚽⚽⚽
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Forza Azzurri!!!! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
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Azzurro is light blue so here a quick story for you:

According to their wonderful book Tutti i colori del calcio (All the Colours of Football), authors Sergio Salvi and Alessandro Savorelli acknowledge that although national teams generally wear strips based on the colours of their respective national flags, this is not always the case: The Dutch wear orange jerseys, the colour of the House of Orange-Nassau; the Germans wear white shirts, from the flag of Prussia; and the Slovenians green and white, the traditional colours of the capital city of Ljubljana. The Indians have an all-blue strip and the Australians green and gold!

The Italians' football and rugby (both codes) teams wear blue in honour of the House of Savoy, under whom Italy was unified in 1861.

Back in the 60s at elementary school in Italy they taught us that they wear azzurro (light blue) because of the challenge of Barletta, in which 13 French and 13 Italian knights fought and the Italians famously won. The Italians wore a light blue scarf, which then remained as the sporting colour in Italy. It is not reported if Zinedine Zidane was part of the French contingent.

Of course it wouldn't be the first time history was rewritten, and the bit about the blue scarf was invented to justify the blue of the Savoia flag. Or it could be the other way around – that the blue in the flag was chosen based on the Barletta challenge.

The 5 W's in italian!
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Question time!
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LET'S learn how to ask questions,
How to obtain directions...
Such great words to use in a conversation!

Do you want to lean Italian?😊
Fancy doing some conversation with a Native teacher?😊
Get in touch with Let's speak Italiano!
First lesson is free!
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Lessons tailored to your goals for every level from A1 to C2!



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🌎Buongiorno da Let's speak Italiano! 🌅

Oggi studiamo la differenza tra

➡️Dai

e

➡️Andiamo

Dai is an interjection in Italian that means Come on! The first time I heard it, I admit that, as an English speaker, I mistakenly thought the other person (who just happened to be a little boy I was babysitting) was telling me to Die! It was a good thing the mother stepped in before I took offence!

Andiamo is the first-person plural form of the verb andare (to go). When used in a neutral sentence, it simply means we go but when used as an imperative to make a suggestion, it translates as Let’s go! Compare the following two sentences:

Andiamo al cinema ogni sabato sera. = We go to the cinema every Saturday evening.

Andiamo al cinema stasera! = Let’s go to the cinema this evening!

Here are a couple of additional example sentences where Dai, andiamo! is used:

Dai, andiamo fuori a mangiare qualcosa. Ho fame!

Come on, let’s go out and eat something. I’m hungry!

Dai, andiamo a casa. Sono stanco morto.

Come on, let’s go home. I’m so tired.

Any questions? 🤔
Fancy learning a bit of Italiano? 😉
Get in touch! 🤓🇮🇹

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Oggi è la festa della repubblica!
Today is Republic day!
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Every year on June 2nd, Italians celebrate la Festa della Repubblica – known as Republic Day in English – which is the name of the Italian national day. It celebrates the institutional referendum held just a year after the end of the Second World War, in which the Italian people voted to abolish the monarchy and form a republic.

IPA: /ˈfɛs.ta dél·la reˈpu.bːli.ka/

Although celebrations are held all over Italy, the main event always takes place in Rome. It includes a flag-raising ceremony, the deposition of a laurel wreath by the President of the Republic (Presidente della Repubblica) at the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria) in honour of the Unknown Soldier (Milite Ignoto) and a grand military parade along Via dei Fori Imperiali.

During the ceremony, the Italian National anthem is sung and the Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force, cross the skies of Rome, emitting a design with red, green and white smoke that resembles the Italian flag.



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Uno..1️⃣
Due..2️⃣
Tre..3️⃣

Impariamo a contare in italiano?🔢🇮🇹
Shall we learn to count in Italian?🔢🇮🇹
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Here is the challenge:
Learn the numbers from 1 to 10 and let me know how you get on! 🤟💪

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Beginners and intermediate classes now available on a One to one or zoom classes (max of 4 students at time)!
Are you an advanced student looking to achieve university grades, GCSE or planning a job interview in Italian?
LET'S do it together!
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Have you got a grouo of friends that would like to try and learn a new language?🤔
Fancy trying Italian?😀😀😀
First 1 hours lesson is free,🤑
Get in touch!
Worth a try! 😉😉😉

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Buongiorno e Buona domenica!
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Here at Let's speak Italiano we believe learning to speak the "everyday" language is an excellent start!😉

Here a few common expressions!
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Fare✅

Is

To do✅

Present and past form for this very common verb👉

Cosa facciamo oggi?😀😀😀😀
What are we doing today🌅🌄


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L'alfabeto in italiano!
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The Italian alphabet!
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Try and read it out loud!

Not as hard as you thought?
Maybe you should have a go at one of our lessons!👍
First one is free! 😁😁😁

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