Result! I’ve just tried out today’s Italian grammar exercise, which has the intimidating title of ‘Concordanza dei tempi verbali all’indicativo 1‘. When I pressed ‘Punteggio’ (score), the computer flashed up the message: Benissimo! Tutte corrette! The questions are a mix of tenses and conditional forms. If you’re doing plenty of reading and listening in Italian, […]
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Italian grammar ‘passato remoto’ exercise & Book of the Day
Here’s an exercise on ‘passato remoto’, which I admit to hardly knowing at all. I scored 7/12 when I tested it – I’m sure you’ll do better! So why do I hardly know this tense at all, even after seventeen years living in Italy? It’s partly due to the fact I’m very lazy / busy […]
Italian Exercise on the Passive + Book of the Day Offer!
Today’s free Italian gammar exercise is on the passive and related forms. If you haven’t studied the passive before, you’ll find notes to help you here and here. By related forms, I mean the impersonal ‘Si’ which is covered here and here, and the variation of the passive with ‘venire’. We don’t seem to have an explanation of that one anywhere […]
