Italian vocabulary for your partner’s family, one lunch at a time

The Italian vocabulary that comes up at the table

Sunday lunch is not a business meeting. You hear about relatives and food, about everyone’s plans and about how everyone is doing.

That makes family Italian a small and repetitive vocabulary, where words like “pranzo”, “nonna” and “cugini” come up on every visit.

Tune NativeLingo for family

Pick Italian and choose Family & friends as your reason, and NativeLingo will give a small boost to words about relationships and daily life.

Take the level test as well, so the words match what you already know. You will then see them in the articles you read anyway.

Forms matter in Italian

Italian changes words for number and gender, which is why “my cousins” is “i miei cugini” and not “il mio cugino”.

NativeLingo matches the form to the sentence you are reading, so when you hear the right version at the table, you have already seen it.

From reading to saying

Seeing a word helps you recognise it when someone says it, but saying it yourself takes recall.

That is what the daily review is for. It asks you to type each word you met, takes a minute or two, and is the part that gets you talking.

Words you can recall are words you can use at the table.

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