Girotondo Languages Cheltenham

24/03/2024

This week's Italian word of the week has been well-used in people's diaries over the last few months here in Gloucestershire:
fangoso - muddy 🐾

🇮🇹 Il sentiero era molto fangoso.
🇬🇧 The path was very muddy.

15/03/2024

Italian word of the week popped up in two people's diaries this week: le banchine - docks 🛳

🇮🇹 Le banchine sono piene di navi
🇬🇧 The docks are full of ships

12/03/2024

An interesting video where people living near the Swiss/Italian border share why they regularly cross the border from one country to the other. Dated 2001.

06/03/2024

Italian word of the week: scodinzolare (to wag the tail) 🐕

🇮🇹 Il cane scodinzola quando vede il padrone.
🇬🇧 The dog wags its tail when it sees the owner.

22/12/2023

14/11/2023

Ah verità 🙄🙄🧐😁🤣🤣

11/10/2023

'Proprio' can be a pain to translate!

23/09/2023

What language are you studying?
https://thelanguagenerds.com/2019/the-languages-the-world-is-trying-to-learn/?fbclid=IwAR1Q7Oy7ERIVAk7_GtmHskwYW7wi-DzB6gHWBXlfREqROMxSOPZK3_a_BD0

Duolingo, the popular language-learning service, has recently hit more than 300 million users, across all 195 countries. This is a huge user database that can reveal a lot about what languages people around the world are learning, and this is where things get interesting. As of January 2019, Duolin...

23/09/2023

Day to day vocabulary.