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Italian greetings: ciao, salve, buongiorno and when each one is wrong
Ciao is not always safe. A guide to Italian greetings by formality and time of day, including the ones for leaving and the regional variations.
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How much do Italian lessons cost?
What platforms publish for Italian tutors, why native and non-native cost almost the same, and why Italian is cheap to start and expensive to finish.
7 min read - ExamA1–C2
The CELI: one Italian exam, split three ways by who is sitting it
Italy's CELI splits into three lines by candidate: adults, adolescents, migrants. Levels, what the CELI 3 buys, and the A1 that fuses two skills.
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Reading about Italian is not the same as speaking it
See how long Italian takes, what the levels mean, and what lessons cost.