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Friday, April 11, 2025

Italian Placenames and Events Which Are Easy To Recall - Ponte Vecchio


I buy books on languages and do exercises on Duolingo every day. I've been studying Italian since June 2024 and like to look for easy to remember words.

 Italian Map words

baia - bay

barca - boat

costa - coast\

discoteca - disco

Frecce Tricolore - Arrows in three colours (Italian equivalent of the British Red Arrows planes which create colours in the sky. Tricolore is the three colours of the flag you can see above at the start of several of my posts.)



collina - hill

Lago - lake

mare - sea

monte - mountain

Monte Bianco - white mountain ((French Mont Blanc). In English the adjective is first, but in both Italian and French the noun is first.

ostello - hostel

pensione - guest house

Peschiera - fish pond

Ponte - bridge

Ponte Vecchio - old bridge, landmark in Florence, Italy

Ponte Vecchio. Picture from Wikipedia.


porta - door

pull - tiro

push - spingere

fiume - river

torre - tower

tricolore - three colours, as shown in the Italian flag



ufficio postale - post office

valle - valley (simply drop the y)

Vecchio - old

vietato fumare - no smoking

via d'uschita - way out

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