Image courtesy of Farollo e Falpala`

Well well well.

I cannot believe it’s been un mese /oon meh-zeh/ since I last posted and I blame the house move, topped up by a lot much needed renovation of the new house.

Exhaustion and sickness were my companions in those days. Esaurimento e malattia.

But everything seems to find or have found its place. A lot has left my life: old clothes (strange, none of those were of Italian brands!), old plates and accessories and a ton of stuff that didn’t fit or I was really sick of carrying around.

So, I’m off to a new and fresh start.

Si ricomincia - we start again!

I like the expression si ricomincia.

Si = one

ricomincia= starts again, from ricominciare (cominciare means start, commence and ricominciare means recommence)

In English when we want to say that we are repeating something we add the prefix re- to the beginning of the verb, while in Italian we add ri pronounced /ree/.

Some examples:

Rifacciamo tutto da capo (let’s do it all again from the beginning)

Facciamo ->rifacciamo

Rimanda la email, per favore (resend the email, please)

manda->rimanda

Rileggi la frase (read the sentence again, reread the sentence)

leggi->rileggi

Simple, isn't it? Just make sure you pronounce the prefix ri as /ree/.

Can you think of an example that you can use today even if no one will understand you?

Elisabetta