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19. Say It With Food (Upper Intermediate)

June 14th, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Italians love food, and love to eat… that’s a fact. For them, food is pleasure as much as nourishment. What they also love to do is to express opinions about people or things using food names that best describe them! So, let’s follow Lucia and Italo as they play this little funny game called “Say It with Food”: the first that cannot come up with a popular idiomatic sentence that uses food names to express opinions about people or things loses. Get ready to learn and practice some of the most common popular Italian idiomatic expressions you’ll ever hear, a lot of food names, and have lots of fun!

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Upper Intermediate - Episode Nr.19

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: expressions, food
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18. At The Galleria degli Uffizi (Upper Intermediate)

May 25th, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Episode #18 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “At The Galleria degli Uffizi” - Let’s follow Lucia and her colleague Tina, who is an architect from New York in Italy for business, as they visit the “Galleria degli Uffizi” in Florence, one of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. We will review and practice almost everything you need to say when visiting an Italian museum - and we’re pretty sure that if you ever travel to Italy, you will definitely find this lesson super useful. Enjoy!

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Upper Intermediate - Episode Nr.18

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: art, culture
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17. Don’t Shoot The Messenger (Upper Intermediate)

May 3rd, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com - Episode #17 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” - Italo is outside of the house for a walk, as he does every evening after dinner. The telephone rings in the house, Lucia answers and… there are bad news for Italo: an important business deal that was supposed to be sealed the following day has been delayed. Time for Lucia to bring the bad news to Italo. - So, let’s learn and practice how to bring news, either bad or good, to people, and what to say if the person receiving the news tries to “shoot the messenger”. On the grammar section, we will review the superlatives, both absolute and relative. Enjoy!

Upper Intermediate - Episode Nr.17

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: expressions
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16. Whose Turn Is It Tonight? (Upper Intermediate)

April 26th, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Episode #16 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “Whose Turn Is It Tonight?” - Italo and Lucia just finished dinner in their house in Milan. It’s time to do the dishes: whose turn is it to do it tonight? Italo says Lucia, and Lucia says Italo… but someone has got to do it! How to decide whose turn is it? Easy: with the good old “pari o dispari” (even or odd) game! So, let’s hear how to make quick decisions in a very democratic way by playing the old “odd or even” game. In doing so, we’ll learn how to do some quick math and, on the grammar section, we will finish reviewing the comparatives, with the so-called “comparatives of equality”. Enjoy!

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Upper Intermediate - Episode Nr.16

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: family, games
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15. A Fun Networking Event (Upper Intermediate)

April 5th, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod! Episode #15 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “A Fun Networking Event”. We’re back in Venice. Another day has passed and Italo has been invited for a networking event after his business meeting. So, let’s hear how Italian professionals network and exchange business cards. If you plan to go to Italy for any type of work or business, you’ll definitely find this episode very interesting, as it contains a lot of popular and useful expressions used in informal but business-like situations. In the grammar section, we will explain, review, and practice the comparatives of majority and minority. Enjoy!

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: business, meetings
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14. How Did Your Day Go? (Upper Intermediate)

March 23rd, 2009

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Episode #14 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “How did your day go?” - Lucia just came back home from work. Waiting for her at home is her son Mattia. Lucia asks her son how his day went, and sure enough, Mattia has some great news for his mother! So today we are going to hear a casual, informal conversation between a mother and a son. You’ll find one more time a lot of informal, “real” Italian here, the way it is spoken between Italians! In the grammar section, we will explain, review, and practice “impersonal constructions” which are so popular in Italian. Enjoy!

Upper Intermediate - Episode Nr.14

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• Difficulty Level Upper Intermediate
• Tags: art, family
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