Archives for December 2014

Guess I’m still on holiday… Sigh. I’m writing this before leaving Italy on the 27th of December, you’ll get it on the 31st. Buon Anno! Anyway, to continue our orgy of the Italian conjunctive form, here’s today’s ‘Italian grammar listening.’ Congiuntivo imperfetto P.S. Don’t forget next week’s ‘Flash Offer’! Perfect for New Year resolutions. For […]

‘This is an automated message’ Very, very rarely OnlineItalianClub.com goes on holiday. Even more rarely, we expect to be away from a reliable Internet connection. So this week’s new materials will (hopefully) be sent out automatically. If you’re reading this, you’ll know it worked! But back to business… This week we have an ORGY of […]

It’s Santo Stefano. Have a crocodile! It’s traditional here in Italy… No, only joking. It’s NOT traditional to give someone a crocodile on 26th Dec. But instead, have today’s ‘Italian grammar listening’, from our current ‘La grammatica ascoltata‘ series covering more advanced verb forms. To understand the crocodile reference, you’re going to have to do some work. […]

There’s no let up from OnlineItalianClub, despite it being Christmas Eve. While universities around the world have temporarily emptied of young people studying Italian, with a consequent drop in traffic to our site, you regulars are still interested, still faithfully opening each email! Thank you. Anyway, today’s ‘grammar listening’ deals with the causative verb form […]

Here’s the latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. Today we’re taking a look at the ‘condizionale passato‘. Check out recent articles in this series (level approximately intermediate) here. Or other (easier) material, here. P.S. If you’ve ever considered taking an Italian course actually in Italy, here are two more articles from our sponsor school’s […]

Buondì. Got a busy day today – it’s the staff Christmas lunch, and I’ll be making a speech, as well as paying the bill… So no time to write much. Today’s ‘Italian grammar listening’ covers the ‘congiuntivo presente‘. It’s the sort of thing that gets people asking: “But WHY is it like this?” “Err… because […]

If you’re an animal-lover, or a grammar-lover, check out today’s new ‘grammar listening’. It covers the passive form and is about dogs which are abandoned by their owners, poverini. Click here to read/listen. Or browse all our free materials for learning Italian to find something that suits your level and current study priorities. Buona giornata! More? […]

Here’s a useful bit of grammar – it’s a passive form, but constructed with the verb ‘venire’ (to come). It comes to be used all the time. Get examples, and listening/reading practice, with the latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of free Italian ‘grammar listenings’. Click here to study the latest text. You can find […]

Here’s another free exercise from our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series to help you: review or improve your Italian grammar work on those essential listening and reading skills This is the third in the latest, and final, part of our ‘Italian grammar listenings’ series. (Just 14 more to go, then something new for January 2015!) Click […]

Who’d be a teenager? Spots, broken hearts, and worst of all, school. And exams! Remember them? Italians are REALLY into exams. For a masochistic thrill, check out our latest ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ Italian listening text. Today’s focus is on verbs which are irregular in the ‘passato remoto’. But more interestingly, for those of us who […]