Today I want to teach you to describe your hometown or we can say places in general by using Italian adjectives
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Remember that the adjectives need to match gender and number! Some might be easy because you can use the rule O when it’s masculine and A when it’s feminine… but you can have exceptions!
Adjectives:
NOIOSO - be super carful here! This is a false friend! Noioso means boring! Your brain might trick you here and want you to say Noisy… but be very careful!
It’a a boring place…
INTERESSANTE- interesting.
My city's park is interesting, it's full of flowers and plant.
CAOTICO - this one easily translates to chaotic. So think of a busy downtown with lots of shops and people moving around:
RILASSANTE - relaxing
If on the other hand you live in a relaxing place you can use the word RILASSANTE - relaxing.
(Living by the lake is relaxing)
RUMOROSO - noisy
(I live near the train station, a very noisy area)
SILENZIOSO - silent
The opposite of rumoroso is SILENZIOSO.
(The area by the woods is a silent place).
ECONOMICO - economic. So you can live in a place where life is not too expensive:
(Living in the countryside is not expensive)
COSTOSO - expensive
(Living downtown in Milan is expensive!)
Here are some extra adjectives, I encourage you to write your own sentence just like I did in the examples above….
Describing my hometown... you can also use this as a dictation! Listen to me reading it in the video and try to write it out... check if the writing is correct here:
"Gallarate è una città interessante. Ha dei parchi grandi pieni di piante, fiori e anche scoiattoli dove si possono fare delle passeggiate rilassanti. Alcune zone sono rumorose, specialmente quelle vicine alla stazione dei treni o quelle vicino alle scuole. Il centro è piccolo ed è isolato dal traffico. Durante la settimana la città è abbastanza silenziosa ma durante il fine settimana in centro può diventare affollato con tante persone che fanno acquisti oppure si godono un aperitivo. Gallarate non è una città stressante ne sperduta ma una città piacevole!"
I’m curious to read your sentences! You don’t need to write a lot… even just a couple of sentences to keep your Italian going! If you need help le me know! Ciao!
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