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Ciao ragazzi! I'm Susanna, graduated in foreign languages and translation. I LOVE traveling and knowing new countries and cultures. I'd like to help you if you're interested in learning Italian or knowing Italian culture :) Don't be afraid if you're a beginner: I can speak English, French, Spanish and a bit of Russian so we'll surely be able to understand each other ;) Please feel free to contact me for any question! A presto!

I was preparing a lesson for a student of mine, when I found myself struggling with a translation. The word was “cavare”. «Pull out» I thought. But then… was there a better word? “Cavare”, in Italian, doesn’t only mean “to pull out”, that would be “estrarre”, “tirar fuori”, “rimuovere” or something else. “Cavare” has the word “cavità” (cavity) in it. “Cavare” means “to extract from a cavity”, “to remove and leave a cavity” and I couldn’t find a single word in English that suited the perfect meaning. This happens to me all the time, as I speak three languages daily and I am a “word perfectionist”: I am fascinated by the meaning that every word can have, those little shades of significance that can only be understood by those who profoundly study a language. And that is what I do: I study, all the time, to speak each of my three languages at its best, and I teach, to make my students learn properly the meaning of words and their best combination. My name is Cindy and I am a langua...