Do I need to know Italian to work as a marketing expat in Italy? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages. Our podcast, produced in mixed English and simple Italian, helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning...

Did you know that Ligurian cuisine is more than just pesto and focaccia? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages. Our podcast, produced in mixed English and simple Italian, helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language...

How do you learn Italian with a language co-pilot? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages. Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. --- Language...

Welcome to the Italian Escape Podcast! Today, before we start the podcast, we’d like to make a small announcement. Roughly one year ago, we launched the Italian Escape Podcast to provide more resources for beginners and intermediate Italian language learners and give you confidence in learning the language. At first many thought that this was a crazy idea and that it would be impossible to maintain it. And yet here we are one year later, with hundreds of listeners tuning in to our...

Is a native Italian the best choice for a teacher? Maybe not. --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. --- In...

Do you know about the time when Italy tried to rebuild the Roman Empire? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages. Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning...

How easy is it to go vegan in Italy? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. --- Happy New Year to our dear...

Would you like to find joy when learning languages? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. --- Today you’re...

Have you ever watched an Italian “West Side Story”? Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. Today, we’d like to...

Have you ever been to a mushroom festival in Italy? Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. Today we’d like to...

Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique e ben tornati nel nostro podcast, the Italian Escape. We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language learning journey. --- For season 2, we’d like to kick off with a...

Italian food – many of you love it. But do you really know the stories behind it? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture from day 0 of their language...

We have always talked about how wonderful Italy is, but what do you know about its dark sides, such as poverty? --- Ciao! Siamo Gabriele e Angelique. Benvenuti nel nostro podcast! We are passionate language learners, and we record for you the language learning podcast we’d like to play when we learn new languages Our podcast in mixed English and simple Italian helps beginners and intermediate Italian language learners enjoy engaging content about Italy, its language, and its culture since...

Do you know who “the hero of the 2 worlds" is? Today we will be talking about the one and only – Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the most famous Italian heroes who spent his life fighting for freedom and unified Italy. Being known as “the hero of the two worlds”, you’ll see his monuments everywhere in Italy, as well as in Latin America. In this episode, you will find out why everybody should know about this brave man who fought for freedom in Italy and many more countries across the world. He...

What is a language acquisition expert? Chances are you might need one. We had a chat with Ludovica Corda, an Italian second-language acquisition expert based in New York, USA. Living abroad most of her life, she saw the value of working smarter and not harder when it comes to language learning. For years, she teaches people on how to effectively learn Italian by associating it with their mother tongues. Since the pandemic, she began producing online educational videos by mixing English...

Where do Italians hideaway when summer comes? If you happen to spend your Italian summer holiday in a city, you’ll eventually realize that the city’s practically deserted. Where are the Italians you longed to interact with? You’ll eventually find out that they are living very different lives by the sea, or by the mountains. Start listening to this episode NOW, to improve your Italian while you learn how and where do Italians spend their summer holidays. By the end of the episode, you’ll...

Have you ever wondered whether you’d like to jumpstart your musical career here in Italy? For this episode we talked to Oyku Dogan, a Turkish musician who decided to pursue her musical education and career in another Mediterranean country - Italy. At 19 years old, she left her home country and settled in the little town of Piacenza. Once she has set foot in Italy, she studied different music styles and the techniques behind each of them, all of which were taught in Italian – a language she...

Have you ever thought of working in Italy as a luxury brand strategist, while travelling and living la dolce vita? For this episode we talked to Elena Ciprietti, a New Yorker who decided to pack her bags and live her Italian dream over 10 years ago. She first lived in Milan, building her career in marketing. She then lived in Palermo, where she reconnected with the land of her great-grandparents. Now, she is in Modena and can often be found exploring tiny, wonderful Italian...

The Italian escape podcast is growing. Do you want to know what’s new? In the last 3 months, since this podcast started, we were overwhelmed by the support that you showed us.  You let us know, over and over, how helpful this podcast is for you. That’s why we decided to double our efforts and release a ton of new features to make your Italian learning journey more engaging, easier, and smoother than before! In this episode we thank you for your support and introduce the many new tools...

Have you ever witnessed a real Italian wedding? In this episode we share the emotion of celebrating our friends’ love in a timeless Italian setting. We attended our friends Davide and Ilaria’s catholic wedding inside a 24-century old temple of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. How incredible is that! We joined the wedding party in an ancient Villa in the outskirts of Siracusa, Sicily. So quaint! We ate the cake by the pool. We danced, ate, laughed and challenged the spouses with...

Sicily has so much to offer other than figs, cannoli, sunshine, coppolas and the mafia.  We headed south a couple of weeks ago to re-discover what the eastern coast of Sicily has to offer other than the stereotypes people had of this island and their people.  In this episode, we will be talking about Catania. While being the second largest city in Sicily, it is known for being close to the highly active volcano Mount Etna, and for its airport (being the largest there is in the...

Italian grammar may be easy for some students but is a nightmare for most. In this episode we give our best comments and advice to help an international pool of students to whom we have asked: “what is your biggest Italian learning struggle?” Some of the answers surprised us. For example, Italian grammar is hard for many students, but not for all. There is a reason for that, and we discuss it. Other answers were expected. For example, some students, despite living in Italy, have a...

We watched videos by foreign tourists who visited Florence and we were shocked. We can't understand why foreign tourists waste their time on Ice Cream, Aperitivo and Pizza. The thing is, you don’t need to go to Florence to enjoy them. You can get them anywhere in Italy and at a much lower price! Most importantly, you will waste your precious vacation days and return home without the real Florence experience. Start listening to this episode NOW, to improve your Italian while you...

Living in Italy is wonderful. Its food, its people and its language are famous all over the world. But let me (Gabriele) tell you that being a mixed couple in Italy is hard. Can you make Italian friends, or will you live in the "expats’ circle" bubble? Do you know enough Italian culture to win your Italian partner   family’s blessing? Can you handle Italian bureaucracy and get your Italian long-stay   permit? If you answered NO to any of such questions, I must tell you that having a...