[{"role": "user", "content": "I'd like to learn how to express a lighthearted apology in Italian, so could you please translate 'I was only joking' for me?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'I was only joking' in Italian is 'Io stavo soltanto scherzando.' This phrase is often used to express a lighthearted apology or to clarify that you didn't mean something to be taken seriously."}]