🇮🇹 Taste Vocabulary
Learn useful words to describe flavors and foods in Italian. This vocabulary will help you express preferences and describe dishes accurately.
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💡 Examples:
- Il cioccolato è amaro. (The chocolate is bitter.)
- La pizza è salata. (The pizza is salty.)
- Questo vino è dolce. (This wine is sweet.)
- La limonata è rinfrescante. (The lemonade is refreshing.)
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✨ Daily Tip:
Pair new taste words with gestures or actual smells to reinforce memory.
Learn useful words to describe flavors and foods in Italian. This vocabulary will help you express preferences and describe dishes accurately.
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💡 Examples:
- Il cioccolato è amaro. (The chocolate is bitter.)
- La pizza è salata. (The pizza is salty.)
- Questo vino è dolce. (This wine is sweet.)
- La limonata è rinfrescante. (The lemonade is refreshing.)
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✨ Daily Tip:
Pair new taste words with gestures or actual smells to reinforce memory.
🇮🇹 Non avere peli sulla lingua
This idiom describes someone who speaks frankly, directly, and without hesitation, even if the truth might be unpleasant. Literally "to not have hairs on the tongue." Hair would impede speech; no hair means words flow freely and unfiltered.
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💡 Examples:
- "Mio nonno non ha peli sulla lingua: ti dice sempre quello che pensa, anche se fa male." (My grandfather doesn't mince words: he always tells you what he thinks, even if it hurts.)
- "Apprezzo che tu non abbia peli sulla lingua, ma a volte la diplomazia serve." (I appreciate you speak your mind, but sometimes diplomacy is needed.)
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✨ Daily Tip: Use this to compliment someone's honesty or to warn someone before you give harsh feedback. "Sarò sincero, non ho peli sulla lingua: quella camicia non ti sta bene."
This idiom describes someone who speaks frankly, directly, and without hesitation, even if the truth might be unpleasant. Literally "to not have hairs on the tongue." Hair would impede speech; no hair means words flow freely and unfiltered.
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💡 Examples:
- "Mio nonno non ha peli sulla lingua: ti dice sempre quello che pensa, anche se fa male." (My grandfather doesn't mince words: he always tells you what he thinks, even if it hurts.)
- "Apprezzo che tu non abbia peli sulla lingua, ma a volte la diplomazia serve." (I appreciate you speak your mind, but sometimes diplomacy is needed.)
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✨ Daily Tip: Use this to compliment someone's honesty or to warn someone before you give harsh feedback. "Sarò sincero, non ho peli sulla lingua: quella camicia non ti sta bene."
What does the idiom "Non avere peli sulla lingua" mean?
Anonymous Quiz
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To be bald
88%
To speak frankly / not mince words
12%
To have a hairy tongue