That's the Italian expression for long time no see.

Da quanto tempo.

Literally since how much time.

Da quanto tempo.

It's been a while.

Our podcast is finally back.

We're really happy to be here with you again, with some exciting news about the new episodes.

You might have already noticed the first little change, La Musica.

Our first new episode with a mini Italian lesson will be out next Tuesday.

So this week we wanted to explain a few things, why we were away for so long,

how we're planning to help you learn Italian through this podcast, and a few exciting changes coming up. We also have a little favor to ask you,

if you're a fan of this podcast, we could really use your help, and we'll explain the details

later on in the episode. But first, what happened? Why did we disappear for so long?

Well, if you look at the date of the last published episode, it was the 28th of June, 2020, spring, summer, 2020.

I seem to remember something strange going on around then.

Hmm. You mean the apocalypse when afterwards population was stuck at home?

Yeah.

And so we'd just come out of the first COVID lockdown, but we'd actually stopped writing

and recording new episodes a long time before that.

We all had a lot going on around then.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

And we were making videos for the Easy Italian YouTube channel,

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