Give this easygoing expression a go. When you’re new to a country, there’s a lot to be said for doing ‘whatever you like’. I don’t mean whatever grabs you at the time, I mean greeting the things that might seem strange to you with a shrug and a live-and-let-live attitude. That’s why today’s phrase is a great one to live by: come ti pare, or ‘whatever you like’.  Don’t miss our journalists’ daily news roundup from Italy It translates literally as ‘how it seems to you’, and is based on the useful verb parere – ‘to seem’ or ‘to look’, and by extension, ‘to think’ or ‘to feel like’. Pare facile ma non lo è. It looks easy but it’s not. Mi pare ovvio. It seems obvious to me. Che te ne pare?  What do you think? (or: how does it seem to you?) È ora di andare, non ti pare? It’s time to go, don’t you think? Fa quello che le pare. She does whatever she feels like. If you don’t quite follow the jump …