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When A Heart Breaks in the Italian Language

by DHales | Jan 16, 2017 | Books, Health, Italy, Language, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Crepacuore Heartbreak In English a heart “breaks” just like a dropped glass. Italian gives il cuore (the heart) a word of its own—spezzare—when it shatters into bits. The pain is like no other. “Mi piange il cuore,” a rejected or dejected lover may say. My heart...

Flirting in the Italian Language

by DHales | Sep 15, 2016 | Books, Italy, Language, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Fare la civettaTo flirt (literally to make like an owl) An American novelist writing dialogue for a character quoting his Italian grandmother recently asked a question:  What is the Italian word for flirting?  I replied that there is none, even...

50 Romantic Phrases in the Italian Language

by DHales | Feb 14, 2016 | Books, Italy, Language, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Ti amo I love you “How do I love thee?” Elizabeth Barrett Browning asked. She counted the ways in English, but the passionate Italophile may well have chosen Italian when she whispered words of love. The most romantic lovers often do. Why not? Like love itself, a...

ti amo, ti voglio bene

by DHales | Jun 10, 2009 | Books, Italy, Language, Music, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Travel

     Ti amo, ti voglio beneI love you.        Love truly is lovelier in Italy. “Anywhere else,” the nineteenth-century French writer known as Stendhal observed,  “it is only a bad copy.”  Only in...
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