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How I learned to say “this” and “that” in Italian   As a child in an Italian-American household, I learned snippets of Italian from my grandmother, who would pepper her conversation with Italian phrases that always sounded so much more expressive than their English counterparts.  And, since they were a part of my everyday interactions,  these Italian phrases easily became a part of my vocabulary. For instance, take the demonstrative adjectives questo and quello.  Because my  grandmother used questo and quello often to point things out,  I knew what these adjectives meant and how to use them before learning the …