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Announcing How To Say In Italian!

After developing Dreaming In Italian and the italian slang dictionary, I have again moved on to a new area, and I just launched How To Say In Italian.
Have you ever looked around online for a certain word or phrase in Italian and find yourself unsatisfied with what you’re finding? Maybe you saw the word in [...]

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Blog Update

Well, it’s been almost two months since I’ve posted anything here, and I’m sorry for that. I read an article a few weeks ago on blogging, and niche blogging in particular. The author argued that niche blogging is a difficult thing to do over time. You start out with a ton of ideas about your [...]

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Blogs about Italy II

This is the second post in my series on blogs about Italy. Click here to see the first post in the series.
I continue to stumble across great blogs about all things Italy seemingly everyday. One of the best ways to do so and to join the growing community of Italy-bloggers and other Italy-lovers is on [...]

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Blogs about Italy

I decided to start Dreaming In Italian on a whim. It wasn’t until after the first post was up that I started looking around for other people blogging about Italy, and I was surprised (though I probably shouldn’t have been) to find that there is a large, vibrant community of Italy bloggers. Some have followed [...]

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Just Do It: Moving to Italy

I recently came across this blog post by Michelle at Bleeding Espresso about her decision to move to Italy, and I also wanted to share the theme here as it played a role in my decision to move to Italy.
The travel bug is an interesting phenomenon. For some people, they travel to somewhere new, enjoy [...]

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My First Trip to Italy

Since I just started this site, I thought it might be helpful if I talked about my first trip to Italy and the effect it had on me, as a way of setting the stage for what this site is all about. During the summer between my freshman and sophomore year in college, my parents [...]

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Welcome to Dreaming In Italian!

Benvenuto! My name is ER, and I love Italy. I love learning and speaking the Italian language and I love traveling around in Italy. If you’re here, that means that you just might as well. I have traveled to Italy multiple times, I have studied Italian at the university level for over two years, and [...]