Here’s the last of our A2-level Italian ‘grammar listenings’ from the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ A2-5, Verbi riflessivi Today’s topic is reflexive verbs, as for example in the phrase ‘hurt yourself’, where you are both the ‘doer’ and the ‘done to’. This is one area where Italian and English basically work in […]
Archives for October 2014
Poor Giorgio! ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ A2/4 – Imperativo
After the technical disasters of the last 7 days or so, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that today’s release of the fourth in the A2 series of ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ goes smoothy. Thanks to everyone who wrote supportive messages, by the way. I’ll reply to each of you personally when I get a minute… OK, […]
Third A2 ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ on Condizionale presente
Ciao there, grammar fiends! Here’s today’s Italian grammar fix. Condizionale presente Or choose from the whole ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series so far: A1 (beginner-elementary) here A2 (pre-intermediate) texts here If your Italian is already better than A2, take a look at the other materials on our Free Online Italian Exercises page. P.S. Like coffee and […]
La grammatica ascoltata A2/2 Futuro semplice (& Bar Giovanni is back!)
The latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series is out today. It focuses on the Futuro semplice, another nice & easy Italian tense. Listen/read here. We’re doing A2 (pre-intermediate) tenses at the moment. View the series on our A2 – Free Online Italian Exercises page. If the A2 stuff is on the […]
Italian grammar, now with new, improved volume control!
Apologies for the terrible sound in the first seven of the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. Many thanks also to the few of you who tried to tell us we were embarrassing ourselves… Sorry we didn’t listen. Anyway, we’ve now fixed it, I hope, so if you were frustrated at not being able to hear the […]