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By: Jerri

Jerri — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:22:48 +0000

My husband lived in Italy for awhile and I have learned a few from him or listening to his family talk. You all me tined some great ones. One of my favorites i chise is for the way it rolls lff the tongue and the silly vision it conjplease have never seen it written so please excuse spelling I use “Porcca mizeria.” Literally “pig’s misery” and used as means of expresing exasperation.

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:17:16 +0000

I love Italian in general and have been learning it assiduously!
Some great words and there are SO many more!

- Senti- for hey listen to me I’ve got something to say
- Basta – enough
- Sfortunatamente – Unfortunately
- Va bene _ they use this for everything
- Piacere – with pleasure
- Benissimo – very good
- Stranissimo – very strange

By: Catherine Azzarello

Catherine Azzarello — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:33:50 +0000

Someday. I’m going to learn Italian again. It’s so mellifluous!

Apparently, I understood and spoke quite a lot when I was a toddler and my Italian grandmother lived with us. Sadly, when she died, my father stopped speaking Italian–he had grown up fighting the stigma of immigrant parents–and I lost my budding bilingualism.

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By: Eleonora

Eleonora — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:26:28 +0000

Being fluent in both English and Italian doesn’t stop me from loving some words for their mere sound. Italian is such a visual and poetic sounding idiom!

Anyhow, here are some flowery sounding favorites:
TRASECOLARE: to be dumbfounded, gobsmacked (a word I love in English too!)
FANNULLONE: layabout, slacker, lazybones, flâneur
ACQUOLINA (in bocca): mouthwater

Lovely, simply lovely. Thanks for sharing Eleonora – those are all new to me! I love flowery Italian

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By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:18:48 +0000

Farfalla – butterfly

And a little off topic (i.e. not Italian): Butterfly is a lovely word in so many languages.
French: Papillon
German: Schmetterling
Arabic: Farasha
Persian: Parvaneh
Portuguese: Borboleta
Spanish: Mariposa
Swedish: Fjäril
… and in my own language (Norwegian): Sommerfugl (literally “summer bird”)

Farfalle is definately a pretty one. And thanks for the translation in other languages! I like ‘Mariposa’ .

By: ER

ER — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:33:12 +0000

I’ve always liked the words that sound great even though they mean something … not so great:

Schifo – gross
Stronzo – A**hole
Fatti cazzi tuoi – um, I’ll let you look it up

Oh, I enjoyed your list – always good to know a few slang swear words in Italian

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By: Paula Russell

Paula Russell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:28:46 +0000

Thanks, Robin, these are lovely. Here are a few of mine:

sfarfallio – flickering (as in on a TV or movie screen)

menefreghismo – an ‘I couldn’t care less’ attitude

trabalante – shaky

Great Italian words Paula! That’s why I love doing these posts- I always learn a few new ones for my collection

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By: Marcia Mazochia-Harms

Marcia Mazochia-Harms — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:09:26 +0000

Fantastic words! Thank you for posting them with pronunciation!

You are so very welcome. Have fun listening – that’s my favorite part!