Archives for October 2014

Good morning and here’s another pronoun fix for all you Italian grammar addicts out there! Today, ‘i pronomi relativi‘. What are they? Easy. Your uncle = ‘he’, your cousins = ‘they’, your grandmother = ‘she’, and so on. Nah… Only joking. Those, of course, are ‘subject pronouns’. Relative pronouns (in English) are words like ‘who’, […]

Italian is not, basically a hard language. No, it’s not – really! But there are certain things about it that might trip you up on your road to mastering it… One such danger-zone is ‘pronomi combinati’, those impossible-looking combinations of phonemes (like ‘glieli’) which you might notice glued to the end of otherwise normal verbs… […]

I don’t normally send out articles on a Sunday evening, but I thought OnlineItalianClub.com members would be interested in the two new simplified readers/audio books that I’ve just published, literally a few minutes ago. Reading and listening are the most neglected parts of most Italian study programs, but in my opinion absolutely the most important. […]

There’s some tricky vocabulary in today’s ‘grammar listening’. But don’t let that put you off. The topic this time is the particella ‘si’, which is very common, and also very useful! So, even if the text looks at first to be a bit complex, try to listen to the whole thing, maybe aiming just to […]

Today, another of those dratted pronouns, or ‘particella pronominale’ in this case: ‘ne’. There’s not anything particularly difficult about this one, but it can cause confusion at first. All the more reason to swallow it down with plenty of context, which will help you digest it and absorb it into the fabric of your Italian. […]

Another Monday morning, another free Italian ‘grammar listening’ from our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. Today ‘ci’, which is not intrinsically difficult, but can be confusing at first… You sort of just have to get the hang of it. Listening to the recording a few times should help with that… Go here to revise or learn […]

‘Would Sir like a little grammar for the weekend?’ Absolutely. One never knows… I pronomi indiretti Or catch up on anything you may have missed so far in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of Italian ‘grammar listenings’: A1 – beginner/elementary A2- pre-intermediate B1 – intermediate P.S. A proposito (‘By the way’), have you seen our […]

You know all those ‘lo’ ‘le’ ‘la’ & ‘li’ bits stuck at the end of certain Italian words? Well, I have to admit, they’ve always confused me… But today’s my chance to finally sort them out in my head, thanks to the latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series, which today tackles […]

Beginning today, a new level in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series of ‘grammar listenings’. They’re especially written by our professional Italian teachers to help you learn or revise every aspect of Italian grammar, one day at a time! And they’re absolutely free, so spread the word… The focus for the next three […]