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What Nobody Told you about Selling your Italian Book in your own Country

5/11/2018

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If you're reading this, probably you're an American or English author.

If you're here, it probably means you're thinking about get your English book translated in Italian.

And most probably your main doubt is: what am I supposed to do with my book once it's translated?
Apart from selling in Italy (and we can help you, thanks to our partners) there is a path you can follow in your own country. Actually there are three.

Let me me give you some hints:

Did you know Italian is the forth language studied in the world?
Did you know in the USA there are over 15 billions of Italian Americans?
Did you know in the USA there are 145,000 Italian residents (that means at least the double are living there, legally, but are not resident)?
Did you know in UK they are 256,000 and New Zealand 142,000?


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Top 5 Italian Proverbs: Meaning and Origin

1/25/2016

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ITALIAN PROVERBS


The same happens for all languages: PROVERBS are often difficult to guess unless we don't know the actual meaning of them.
Here you can find the top 5 Italian proverbs!

 





Chi fa da sé, fa per tre.
Literal meaning: the one who do something by himself, does what 3 people could do.
English version: if you want something done well, do it yourself.


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Italenglish: because Italians love English

5/9/2015

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If you have ever visited Italy probably you noticed something: despite the fact Italians can't speak English, they absolutely love it. And this is why they decided to create something unique and almost exhilarating called Italianglish.

The Italenglish contains words that remind the English language and that Italians strongly believe to be English, but that don't exist in the English vocabulary or have a completely different meaning.


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The Italian New Year's Eve Good Luck: From Lentils to Red Lingerie

12/30/2013

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NO NUOVO, VITA NUOVA 
(New Year, New Life)

All you should know to make this proverb real.






New Year's Eve is almost here and Italy is ready to party for the Capodanno or Notte di San Silvestro.
As you can imagine a MAGNIFICENT dinner is what makes our night special and, as always, we have so many ways to ask the GOOD SPIRITS to help us beginning the new Year in the right way, and most of all, HAVE A RICH NEW YEAR.

So, once again, here is all you should do to make the 2014 the most lucky of you life!



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Italian Thanksgiving? Sorry, but it doesn't exist

11/17/2013

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I just came back from the States, where all the people, after the big Halloween night, are ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving day. And one of the question was...do you celebrate it in Italy, right?
NOPE! I'm sorry, but that's YOUR celebration. No THANKSGIVING here. No turkeys killing here.

So what we celebrate if not Thanksgiving? Here you'll find all our festivities!



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MANGIA!!! How to survive to the Italian Motto.

8/21/2013

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There is one word that is worldwide known, and that is a kind of motto for the Italian expats and it's MANGIA.
MANGIA (Eat) is Italian Mothers' and Grandmothers' favorite word.
That you are eating like a little bird, or like a hoover, it doesn't matter. When you sit at an Italian table, you will hear this word at least one time (if you're lucky).
Many think it's just because our mothers love us, or because they always see us like a child in need to grow up, or because of our sense of hospitality.



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Italian Love #2: Honey, Sweetheart & Co.

7/16/2013

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After the post "How Italians say I love you" it came the time for you to discover how Italian lovers call each other. For real, Italian has a endless fantasy in finding new sweet nicknames for the loved one, but here are the most common and used (and funny)!
Enjoy!

AMORE/AMORE MIO/AMORINO: Love/my love/ little love
TESORO: Honey (literally treasure)
TATA/O: Literally nanny
PICCOLA/O: Little
STELLA/STELLINA: Literally Start/little star
CUCCIOLO/A: Literally puppy
PASSEROTTO: Literally Little Sparrow
MUSINA/O: Pretty little face
PULCE: flea
VITA/VITA MIA (typical from the south): Life/my life
PULCINO: chick
PATATA/PATATO: Literally potato
PACIUGO/PACIUGHINO: Messy Concoction

Yes, we are definitely romantic people!

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Black Cats, Mirrors & Ladders: How to Survive to the Italian Superstition

7/16/2013

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Yes, Italians are superstitious. Forgive us. We know it could make no sense, we know it can seem silly, we know it's not rational. But, as we say, "Non è vero ma ci credo"  (It's not true but I believe in it"), considering life is already complicated, why taking the risk of the bad luck when we can try to escape it?

Here you find our most famous superstitions and what to do - when possibile- to avoid the bad luck, that we call SFORTUNA, SFIGA, IELLA ( the famous MALOCCHIO is a totally different matter, but it could be the cause of our bad luck).

In general, the gestures that are always welcome against the back luck are the sign of the HORNS (saying TIE'), touching something made of IRON and men use to touch their TESTICLES.


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The Italian Good Luck

7/8/2013

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To start this week in the best way here you'll find the most common ways to wish Good Luck in Italian! More slang for you!!!

Obviously the most common way is wishing BUONA FORTUNA (Good luck), but we also have other special ways, related to animals!

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If the Cat doesn't say Meow...Italian Animals' Language

6/28/2013

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As you surely know in every country animals speak their own 'Language'.

So, what about Italian ones? No Meows nor Woofs...

In italy...

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