Archives for September 2014

Ever been lost in the woods? Check out the latest installment in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of Italian grammar listenings. This one will help you learn or revise verbs which are irregular in the passato prossimo (‘near past’ tense). But it also works as, pretty exciting, listening practice. This is the last of our […]

Continuing our La grammatica ascoltata series of ‘Italian grammar listenings’, today’s listening/transcript is rich with examples of Italian verbs which are regular in the ‘near past’ tense. The ‘passato prossimo’ is one of the few tenses in Italian (other than the present) which are essential for speaking and understanding the language, so you’d do well […]

Call me dumb, but after 17 years of learning Italian, I STILL can’t get my head around ‘I like’. So today’s ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ on piace / piacciono is one which I will be listening to again and again, in the hope that it’s going to finally sink in. Unless you’re new to OnlineItalianClub.com in […]

Here’s the fourth in our series of ‘Italian grammar listenings’, today Essere or Avere? If you’re new to the series, or to our website, the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ texts are not intended to be grammar exercises or explanations (you’ll find those elsewhere on OnlineItalianClub.com). Instead the idea is to provide you with examples of Italian grammar […]

Welcome to new OnlineItalianClub.com members, and ‘ciao’ to our regulars! Today we publish the third in our new series ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (‘Grammar, listened to’). The topic is Italian present tense irregular verbs, one of the major hurdles that we all have to leap when first getting to grips with the language. Listen to / […]

Salve! Just to let you know, the second of our new series ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ is now live on our site. Review (or study for the first time) the present tense of Italian regular verbs. You’ll find links to each article in this series on the A1-Beginner page of the Free Italian Exercises section of […]

Our new series of articles, ‘La grammatica ascoltata’, will cover most areas of Italian grammar between now and Christmas, at a frequency of three grammar topics a week. We’re starting with A1 (beginner, elementary) topics. The series’ name translates as ‘Grammar, heard’, which sounds lousy in English, I admit. Anyway, the idea is to build/consolidate […]

Today we have the last in our ‘street names’ series. Find out about Giovanni Amendola, another casualty in the rise of Italian fascism in the nineteen-twenties. Monday we’ll be starting a new series which focuses on Italian grammar. More details on that soon. Poi, don’t forget that the 25% discount code for online Italian lessons […]

“Is it possible to learn Italian without ever spending  a cent?” Sure. I’ve been teaching myself Italian for at least 16 years. There are masses of free materials for learning Italian available on our site, and on others like it. These days there are even websites where you can exchange language practice with an Italian […]

Ragazzi, today the penultimate in our series of mini-biographies of Italians with streets named after them. The last will be this Friday. What next? Monday, there’ll be a fantastic new series to help you learn (or revise) Italian grammar. You’ll get a series of short listenings, with transcripts of course, each focused on just one […]