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49. Nicknames Galore! (Culture Shot)

  Level: Culture Shot

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. What happens when one fourth of the families living in a small Italian town of 50,000 people have the same last name and they can only be distinguished by their nicknames? Easy… a lot of confusion, as it becomes almost impossible to know who’s who; and confusion remains until those families find a way to actually make their nicknames become legal last names!

This is not science fiction, and that’s exactly what happened a few days ago in the small Italian town of Chioggia, near Venice. – So we’re going to dedicate this Culture Shot to yet another really peculiar and interesting piece of Italian creativity. Enjoy!

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Culture Shot – Episode Nr.49

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• Level: Culture Shot
• Topics: family, work
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25. I’m Not Here For Anyone (Upper Intermediate)

  Level: Upper Intermediate

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod. Episode #25 of the “Upper-Intermediate Level Series” is entitled “I’m Not Here For Anyone”. It’s Wednesday morning in Milan. Lucia is home, and she’s getting ready for an important business meeting. There’s only one problem: a terrible headache is driving her crazy.

So, let’s see how our friend Lucia deals with her chronic headache, and in doing so, let’s learn some of the most common Italian idiomatic expressions you’ll ever hear, together with a lot of useful, informal, 100% “real” Italian. On the grammar section, we will review some of the most interesting expressions from the dialogue giving grammar rules and extra examples. Enjoy!

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Upper Intermediate – Episode Nr.25

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• Level: Upper Intermediate
• Topics: health, work
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26. How To Do A Job Interview (HTI)

  Level: How To Italian

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Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com! Jenna from New York, a dear friend and a longtime LearnItalianPod VIP subscriber, is going to move to Italy very soon. She’s determined to find a job, perfect her Italian, and make it in the international tourism industry. She sent a lovely email that says “how about a lesson on how to do a job interview? You know, just the general questions, the ones common to all job interviews… I think that it would be really useful to a lot of people like me looking forward to work in Italy for a while…” – Loved the idea, Jenna! So today let’s find out how to do a job interview and land that job in Italy!

How To Italian – Episode Nr.26

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• Level: How To Italian
• Topics: how-to, work
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2. How To Say What You Do (HTI)

  Level: How To Italian

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Welcome to “How To Italian” episode nr. 2! In today’s episode we are going to learn how to ask someone you just met what he or she does in life, all in a polite but friendly kind of way. In case you missed last week’s episode, “How To Italian” are 5 to 7 minutes audio programs that will show you “how to” successfully learn and master a very specific topic of the Italian Language. And, if you are a LearnItalianPod VIP subscriber, you’ll just love the way you’ll be able to practice these “How To Italian” lessons when logging in to the Learning Center, as they are the closest thing to a real-time conversation with an Italian! Enjoy!

How To Italian – Episode Nr. 2

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• Level: How To Italian
• Topics: how-to, work
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