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Hellenistic Bronze

Legendary bronze Minerva returns to Arezzo where her story began

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🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹 Matta Italian Lang

🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹
Matta Italian Language Tip!

Vuoi smettere di flirtare con l’italiano e fidanzarti sul serio?

Want to stop flirting with Italian and get engaged instead?

From Passive to Powerful: How to Finally Start Speaking Italian with Confidence

A word does not become yours when you simply recognize it on a page. It becomes yours when you sit with it and absorb it, use it, play with it, and make it part of your life.

Here’s your daily Matta mini-challenge:

1. LEARN 3 NEW WORDS A DAY.

But do not just admire them like pretty little souvenirs. Put each one into THREE sentences out loud so your brain begins to hear them, feel them, and remember them.

2. NARRATE ONE SMALL MOMENT OF YOUR DAY IN ITALIAN.
Talk to yourself as if you were telling a tiny story. Describe your coffee, your walk, your grumpy mood, your missing sock, your heroic trip to the grocery store. Small moments are where real language starts to live.

3. WRITE 5 WHIMSICAL SENTENCES IN ITALIAN EVERY DAY.
Make them strange. Make them funny. Make them unforgettable. Ask things like: What would cows say if they could talk? If dogs took over the world, what would they do first? What would Dante have said to Shakespeare over dinner?

The more playful and personal your practice is, the more the language sticks. Italian loves attention. Give it a little every day, and before long, it will start talking back.

Read the Matta Post about moving from PASSIVE to ACTIVE language learning.

https://www.studentessamatta.com/active-vs-passive-italian-learning-speak-with-confidence/

#italianlanguage #italianfluency #speakitalian #languagelearning #languagelearningtips italianpractice learnitalianonline

There’s still time for Italy in June! This June 2

There’s still time for Italy in June!

This June 2026, come away with me to Arezzo and step into the rhythm of real Italian life and immerse in Italian Language and culture.

There is still time to sign up and participate in the 2026 Arezzo Matta Italian Language Program.

Join our small group of language fanatics, study at Cultura Italiana in the mornings and go on fun adventures in the afternoons with Melissa, speak, explore and take your language skills father.

This isn’t just a trip… it’s a full immersion into the language, the culture, and the magic of Italy—where every moment becomes part of your story.

Come get a little matta with your Italian…and take your language skills further than you ever imagined.

👉 Join us in Arezzo this June!

Visit the www.StudentessaMatta.com website to sign up and learn more. Contact Melissa@StudentessaMatta.com to talk directly with Melissa

#StudentessaMatta #LearnItalianInItaly #Arezzo #ItalianLanguage #LanguageImmersion #ParlaItaliano #ItalyTravel #ItalianCulture #StudyAbroad #ItalianLife #TravelAndLearn #ItalianJourney #LaDolceVita #ItalyExperience

🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Lang

🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Language Tip!

Just as in yoga, breath matters in Italian too.

A little trick borrowed from yoga.

Use your breath to learn Italian more effectively. Inhale slowly, exhale calmly, and while you do, repeat a new word or expression like “senza fiato,” “avere il fiatone,” or “tirare un sospiro di sollievo.”  Breathing deeply helps you slow down, hear sounds more clearly, and pronounce words more naturally. After all, learning a language, just like yoga, requires breath, balance, and a pinch of patience.

Il fiato = breath
 Il respiro = breathing, breath
 Trafelato/a = flustered, breathless from rushing
 Il fiatone = panting, heavy breathing after exertion
 L’affanno = breathlessness, strain
 Essere senza fiato = to be out of breath / breathless / amazed
 Avere il fiato corto = to be short of breath
 La mancanza di respiro = shortness of breath
 Respirare affannosamente = to breathe heavily
 Respirare a fatica = to breathe with difficulty
 Trattenere il respiro = to hold one’s breath
 Tirare un sospiro di sollievo = to breathe a sigh of relief

Read the Matta Post to learn more Italian vocabulary about breathing in and breathing out!

https://www.studentessamatta.com/vocabulary-breathe-easy-in-italian-respirare-mozzafiato-affanno/

#ItalianLanguage #ItalianExpressions #ItalianWords #ParlareItaliano #Fiato SenzaFiato Fiatone

Sabato sera in centro… cin cin!

Sabato sera in centro… cin cin!

Vuoi smettere di flirtare con l’italiano e fidanza

Vuoi smettere di flirtare con l’italiano e fidanzarti sul serio?

Want to stop flirting with Italian and get engaged instead?

Da passivo a potente: come iniziare finalmente a parlare italiano con sicurezza
From Passive to Powerful: How to Finally Start Speaking Italian with Confidence

Il mio corteggiamento con la lingua italiana si è ufficialmente trasformato in un fidanzamento!
#ItalianFluency #ItalianImmersion #italianlanguage #ItalianPractice #Italianvocabulary #LanguageLearning #LanguageLearningTips #LearnItalian #LearnItalianonline #SpeakItalian #StudentessaMatta

https://www.studentessamatta.com/active-vs-passive-italian-learning-speak-with-confidence/

🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹  Matta Italian Lan

🇮🇹 Un consiglio dalla Matta 🇮🇹
 Matta Italian Language Tip!

Quando le bugie… non fanno molta strada

When Lies Don’t Get Very Far

IN ITALIAN, YOU SAY: “LE BUGIE HANNO LE GAMBE CORTE.”

Literally? Lies have short legs.
 But the meaning is much more vivid: lies don’t go very far.
 Sooner or later… the truth catches up with them.
It’s the perfect expression for shows like Non dirlo al mio capo, where one small lie starts running… only to trip over itself not long after.

Read the the Matta Blog Post about the RAIPlay TV series “Non dirlo al mio capo”

https://www.studentessamatta.com/non-dirlo-al-mio-capo-italian-rai-tv-series-vanessa-incontrada-lino-guanciale/

Non dirlo al mio capo: bugie, amore e avvocati a N

Non dirlo al mio capo: bugie, amore e avvocati a Napoli

“Non dirlo al mio capo”: Lies, Love, and Lawyers in Naples

Una bugia… piccola, innocente… o forse no
One small lie… harmless… or maybe not

A volte tutto comincia con una piccola bugia. Una di quelle che dici quasi senza pensarci, giusto per superare un ostacolo. “Non è importante,” ti dici.
#Italianexpressions #italianlanguage #italianseries #ItalianTV #Italianvocabulary #LearnItalian #naplesitaly #raiplay #StudentessaMatta #StudyItalian

https://www.studentessamatta.com/non-dirlo-al-mio-capo-italian-rai-tv-series-vanessa-incontrada-lino-guanciale/

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