#itlaian stuff

[sayitaliano]

Music on Italian TV

-> It's Summer, so lot of music/concert-like shows will be broadcasted on TV, starting from TIM Summer Hits (live now on Rai2 -Sunday June 25th, 2023 at 9:30PM GMT+2). You'll be able to enjoy it live in Rimini on July 6th, 7th and 8th. The host are Nek (singer), Andrea Delogu (tv/radio host) and Gli Autogol (comedians/youtubers related to football)

-> On July 4th (and for four Tuesdays, as it will end on August 1st) it will be time for the annual Battiti Live to be broadcasted on Italia1, 9:10 PM GMT+2 (will update with further infos in the next days).

Many national and international artists will perform on each of these events, you'll be able to listen to all the new (and maybe some of the old too) tormentoni.

-> Tomorrow (June 27th 2023) a huge free concert will be held in Milan to raise funds for an Association (TOG) that takes care and rehabs children with neurological difficulties. The event (that took place last year as well) is called LOVE MI and it's organized by Fedez. Many many artists will join him in Piazza Duomo. The streaming will start at 6 PM GMT+2 on Mediaset Infinity and and at 7 PM GMT+2 Italia1 will broadcast it as well. the host will be Max Angioni (comedian), Mariasole Pollio (actress, tv host) and Gabriele Vagnato (comedian, youtuber, creator).

An Italian vpn is suggested to enjoy all the shows.

[sayitaliano]

can you teach us some slang italian kids say nowadays? penso che parlo come un vecchio d'ottanta anni 😭 grazie!

Ahaha beh, mi sa che hai chiesto alla persona sbagliata allora, perché... io ho ottant'anni O.O! Jokes aside, from what I get, many young people here now use slang words from TikTok, which is not exactly my ideal place (no hate, it's just that I haven't really realized how to use it -it stresses me LOL).

The main thing atm is the "corsivo" speech, which happens for any gender in different ways (at least, from what I noticed also in music: masculine people tend to speak in the same tone, almost accentless makes me so sad -check Sangiovanni for example, I swear 70% of the young guys I had to interact with or heard on TV, had his same tone- while feminine add "i"s anywhere, but I linked you my only post about it :'D). Ofc, not everyone does this (luckily, let me add).

+ there are these posts I have written in the past and you can scroll through the #slang to check more: adoro | beccare | starci | a palla | pieno | botto | sbatti | sbatta | figata | a molla | pizza | stica | I had written this post but ofc many of the words there are not very used anymore or are too Regional (com'è, raga, limonare, farsi... these are some of those still used for example... I think LOL). Ofc there are Regional slangs too to take into consideration, but living near Milan makes it tougher for me to realize them cause we get a lot of influence from the city. Recently guys tend to call their besties "bro" or "fra"/"frate" (same as in English: brother/fratello; differently from the older generation, the accent has disappeared: was "fraté" sometimes, but I never heard about it anymore); while girls call their besties "amo" or better, in corsivo, "amio" (=amore, love). Rarely "sister" but I'm not sure. I think the old slang "raga" stays for mixed groups. A lot of the slang words originate from English these days and you can get more from music (especially trap music, which is the main genre going on between youngers).

Again y'all, I'm an oldie and I am not having too many deep interactions with young people these days (especially those using lot of slang), so... I'm leaving it up to y'all!

[sayitaliano]

Heyy! How are you? I was wondering if you still have a link or something of the carnival recipes you shared the other day? I forgot to check the Instagram stories that day and didn’t save them :(

Ciao! I'm good thank you, and you?

I forgot to add them to the highlighten stories, but now I have so if you want to, you can check them again on my Instagram! If not, you can take a look at @/fattoincasadabenedetta (still on Instagram) : she's pretty famous in Italy, she has written a few books, has a youtube channel (under the same name) and also appears on TV to show some easy and very typical recipes from our country (but in particular from her area, in central Italy). She had an hotel with her family so she knows pretty well about recipes.

This is from her website, another typical sweet's recipe for Carnevale: the famous chiacchiere of frappe or bugie. It's the same sweet but we call it in different ways according on the area we live in. Tbh there are even more different ways to call them according on different cities haha e.g. in Piemonte we call them "bugie", but this is especially true in Torino's area. If you move to Alessandria the name changes in Gasse, while in Vercelli and Novara (similarly to Lombardia) it's Gale* -as to mean "ribbons", from their shape. this is valid also for Alessandria's name-. In Aosta Valley it's Merveilles. In the North West and part of Emilia they're called generally "chiacchiere", while in the central/southern part of Italy they're called "frappe". Again there are more variations according to cities as I explained for Piemonte, forgive me if I am not going too much in detail.

*Gale not as in English ofc (I suddenly got reminded about a surname LOL): the pronunciation is g-ah-l-eh