Friends, I have only visited Italy 2 times, to Roma & Milano, so forgive me for not writing in Italiano.

I have seen people buying bottled water when tap water was just fine, may be there was a slight taste in water.

So is that taste the reason for buying bottles? In that case would not it be better to have a home water purifier to filter out that taste?

Please educate me.

so for context i have 2 last names, Duranza & Marte and for my pen name i use "Maranza" ive been using it for a couple years but only recently found out it is slang for a urban youth subculture in italy. can i keep the name or will overseas fans associate it with something else immediately? tysm for any comments and advice ♡

♡ tldr: is Maranza an ok pen name? ♡

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Hi guys

I checked into an airbnb today and the power went out. Whatever, issue solved. But now the fuse box is displaying a strange message which Google translate cannot decipher. Are any Italian speakers able to decipher this?

Edit: thanks for the help guys 😂 Your answers gave me a laugh. I have let the owner know that I reckon there is an issue with the power meter. so far no response. We will see.

Ciao! I'm the solo dev behind Dixio, a small daily word game that I built in both Italian and English, and I thought it might be a fun bit of practice for learners here.

How it works: each day a secret Italian word hides somewhere in the dictionary. You type any word you know, and the game tells you whether the secret word comes before or after it alphabetically. Two walls close in with every guess until the word has nowhere left to hide. There's no timer, so you can take your time and look words up.

Every word you find is saved in your collection with its definition, pronunciation and a quote, so it doubles as a little vocabulary notebook. The Italian side has its own dictionary rather than a translation of the English one.

It's free, needs no account and works offline: - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806202043 - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innovationx.wordgame

I'd really love feedback from learners: are the daily words too hard, too easy, or about right for your level? Grazie!

Per favore, vorrei imparare l'italiano. Parlo bene l'inglese e lo spagnolo.

I’ve really been into Italian culture this past year and wanna visit Italy, so I wanna try bond with someone who can teach me about the culture & the ppl, as I don’t know any Italians irl :’) I really wanna visit so I feel like this would be a really good insight! preferably in your 20s, but anything older is fine <3

In termini di qualità chi ha la meglio?

Voglio vestirmi di qualità senza spendere un patrimonio.

Hello I am currently learning Italian on Duolingo and wanted to know some things about Italian like is Duolingo an actual good way to learn Italian or is it better to learn it a different way

Bologna has a library, Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano De Boni, which has many books and articles by American reincarnation researchers. I am into reincarnation research and live in Italy. The cases in Italy that I have come across are very old, so I was wondering if there could be any modern-day cases and if there would be local interest in reporting such cases for investigation by parapsychology researchers.

Here are the previously mentioned old cases:

Alexandrina Samona (Italy)

The first well-attested European case is that of Alexandrina Samona (as her name is usually spelt in English). Her father, a physician, first reported it in Italian medical journals in 1911.
Five-year-old Alexandrina died of meningitis, leaving her mother distraught. Three days after the death, her mother dreamed that she came to her and told her not to grieve because she would be returning as her baby. Three days after that, her mother dreamed the same thing again. The family heard knocks on the door, answered it, but no one was there. They tried to contact the girl through a medium and she responded at once. She said that she had made the knocks and that she would be returning before the end of the year with a twin sister. Her mother became aware she was pregnant and in time gave birth to twin girls. One of the twins looked so much like her deceased sister that she was given the same name. The new Alexandrina was left-handed, her left eye was engorged, her right ear was inflamed and her face was slightly asymmetric – all like her namesake, but unlike her twin. As she grew older, she behaved in many ways like the first Alexandrina. Then one day when the family was planning an outing to Monreale, she said she had already been there and correctly described a scene that the first Alexandrina had witnessed shortly before her death.

Bianca Battista (Italy)

This is another early case, from 1911. It was not investigated by the research community, but has some interesting features for a European case. Bianca never spoke directly about a previous life, but before she was born her mother saw an apparition of a daughter who had died three years prior. She was three months into her pregnancy and wide awake at the time. The girl appeared with a ‘childlike joyousness’ and quietly said, ‘Mama, I am coming back.’ Bianca, when born, had the same physical appearance as her deceased sister and was given the same name. When she was six, she surprised her parents by singing a lullaby that had been a favourite song of the first Bianca’s French governess. The second Bianca knew no more than a few words of French, yet she sang the words with a perfect accent. When her father asked her who had taught her this song, she said, ‘No one. I just know it by myself.’

Irma (Italy)

A little girl named Picciota, from Venice, died at age five. A year after her death her eldest sister married. Her first child was a daughter named Irma. Irma looked very much like Picciota and as she grew up it was clear that she had much the same personality and exhibited many of the same mannerisms. From the time she could speak she insisted that she was in fact Picciota, not Irma. Once when her grandmother took her to the cemetery to put flowers on Picciota’s grave, she protested, ‘But I am no longer there. Picciota is Irma. It is me, and you must not cry.’ So saying, she embraced her grandmother exactly as Picciota had done. Irma would refuse to kiss Picciota’s portrait, saying, ‘It is silly to kiss yourself.’

Nina (Italy)

This case is recorded only briefly, by Ralph Shirley in the 1930s, but has interesting features. A little girl named Nina (age not given) insisted that her name was Rosa. She told her mother that she was not her real mother, and recited the address where she had lived before. Her mother later took her to that place, where they found that there was a family who had lost a daughter named Rosa. Nina recognized Rosa’s mother, ‘and the affair ended with a scene of mutual recognition in which the child threw her arms around the neck of her former mother – if we may so term her – in a paroxysm of affection and joy’. In commenting on this case, Karl Müller noted that although the intermission length is not reported it ‘is obviously within a few years’.

Source: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/european-children-past-life-memories/

I have been studying Italian in secondary school for almost 6 years, and at the absolute best i am high A2, i don’t see any progress from the school learning system. I want to go study in italy abroad and i want some tips on how to get a high enough level of Italian and eventually fluency.

Poesia da me composta ed inviata via SMS dal mio mitico Motorola StarTac nei primi anni 2000 ad Antonella, la ragazza che poi è diventata mia moglie.

Buonanotte sorriso di luna tu illumini il mio oscuro cielo, che la notte ti porti opportuna il riposo ed un sogno dove trovarci nell'attesa di un nuovo incontro

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