Section 2. Exercises - Making Small Talk
Use these exercises to integrate all that you learned in section 2 of Think Like an Italian
Ciao! This is a part of a content series called Think Like an Italian, which is meant to help you develop more confidence to have conversations in real life. Start the series here.
This part specifically is a continuation from section 2: making small talk, which included ten questions and answers + a short dialogue. In this part, you’ll complete exercises related to the content from that section. Buono studio!
COCKTAIL PARTY FACT: WHO IS ANDREA CAMILLERI?
Andrea Camilleri is an Italian author from Sicily, and he’s famous for his mystery novels. He’s well-known for his series Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a detective who is known for being a disruptor with strong views on what’s happening socially and politically in Italy. The books came first, and then the TV show aired on RAI for the first time in 1999.
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GRAMMAR NOTE: DON’T DIRECTLY TRANSLATE.
The most important point that I want to bring home in this series is that you can’t directly translate from your native language to Italian and expect to be fluent.
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