This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 218.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns

and villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of Bella Italia.

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta.

If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there,

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Ciao, everyone. I hope you had a lovely Easter break if you had one or at least indulged in some

delicious chocolate. It is the season after all. Who am I to argue? I actually had a special

delivery of Guantiotto from Turin or Torino and they were absolutely amazing. If you don't know about these small

nuggets of exquisite chocolate and hazelnut, then have a listen to Episode 200, which is all

about Italian chocolate. And in this episode, I go into quite a bit of detail about Italian

chocolate, which is actually excellent. And I would say up there

with Swiss and Belgian chocolate, actually, but I'll let you be the judge. Let me know what you

think. As always, sometimes the Italians may not have deployed the best marketing strategy,

but I do think the quality of Italian chocolate, especially

from Turin, is very, very good. So today we're talking to someone who also comes from near Turin,

and that's in the Piedmont region of Italy, but she now lives in Perth, Australia, from where

she runs an online Italian language school with students from all

over the world. Our guest, Monica Kazamani Bonner, has a wonderful story about how she came to

learn English and then discovered her passion for teaching others how to speak Italian.

She has a very practical approach to learning Italian that I think will inspire you and is also

going to answer a question I know a few of you have on your minds. Is it really hard to learn

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