Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog 🙂
Have you watched my newest video yet? I talk about common actions and activities we, Italians, do at Christmas.
Here’s a list of things we do – in Italian -:
- decorare —> decorare l’albero di Natale – decorare la casa
- decorazioni (decorazioni – ornaments)
- fare e ricevere gli auguri di Natale —> link to video
- augurare
- fare e ricevere i regali
- scambiarsi i regali di Natale
- aprire i regali
- fare il presepe (set up the nativity scene)
- fare l’albero
- fare il brindisi a cena/pranzo
- brindare
- giocare a tombola
- trascorrere del tempo con i parenti (to spend time with family)
- guardare i film natalizi in tv
- organizzare il pranzo di Natale
- apparecchiare la tavola
In the video I forgot to mention one very important thing we do at Christmas, which is going to the Christmas mass. I usually go at midnight between the 24th and the 25th of December; it is a tradition I’ve been following for a few years now and I prefer the midnight mass to the morning mass on the 25th because it is more calm and quiet, and you can really feel the Christmas religious atmosphere, I think.
What do you do in your country at Christmas? And what’s your favourite tradition to follow?
Let me know 🙂
Lucrezia,
Thank you for all of your great videos this year! These have helped me to gain confidence in my Italian skills.
My mother’s family comes from Calvello, IT in Basilicata. A tradition that we do on Christmas Eve is to make calzone. This tradition came to the US from my great grandmother who came to the US on a ship by herself when she was 12 years old. Christmas would not be the same for me without calzone!
Buon Natale!
Rick Kiszka
Columbus, Indiana, USA
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Ciao Rick!
Thank you for your comment 🙂 I really enjoyed reading about your fave tradition!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Buon Natale a tutti voi!!!
Best,
Lucrezia
Reblogged this on La Spiritosa.
Ciao Lucrezia!
I have a question for you. 🙂
When do you decorate the Tree for Xmas in Italy?
I mean I know – for example – in the UK and in the USA they decorate it at the end of November or at the beginning if December (I don’t know if there is a certain time/day for them) and we – in Hungary – decorate the tree only in the evening 24th of December (la Vigilia di Natale). Basically we spend the Xmas almost the same you said in the video: the family members are together, eating special xmas foods, going to the mass (more times…), etc.
I love Christmas! 🙂
So I wish a very merry Christmas to you!
Buon Natale! 🙂
Anett
Ciao Anett! We start decorating the house (nativity scene + tree + decorations) on the 8th of December, the day in which we celebrate the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary 🙂 That is the tradition (which my family and I follow), but many people start decorating even before that date 🙂
Thank you for sharing your tradition!! 😀
Buona Natale anche a te!!!
Best,
Lucrezia
Grazie mille Lucrezia!!
Hi! Dear Lucrezia,I said ‘BOUNO NATALE!’ so much thanks for you effort to teach ,as a suggestion make some words clear with some english expressions.Grazie ,bella teaching style.
Buon Natale!!!