Forgive me for being a little late today, but I’ve been working on a new website for people learning Italian. In particular, I’ve been formatting a series of fourteen audios on Italian festivals and public holidays – Christmas, Carnival, Mothers’ Day, and so on. As our series of Italian grammar lessons is sort of finished […]
Archives for June 2016
Free Italian Lesson On ‘Ci’ And ‘Ne’ (& New Easy Reader!)
Buongiorno a tutti. Today I have the last ‘official’ lesson in our series of free Italian grammar lessons. (But don’t worry – I’ve got some bits and pieces to add to the series over the next couple of weeks.) Today’s topic is ‘ci’ and ‘ne’, those confusing pronominal particles which are always worth looking at […]
Free Italian Lesson On Articulated (Compound) Prepositions
Today’s free Italian lesson follows on from Wednesday’s, which was on ‘simple’ prepositions, with a list of the numerous ‘articulated’ (or ‘compound’) prepositions. Here’s the link you need to read the explanation and do the exercises: Lesson 53: Articulated (Compound) Prepositions Or find both of them, and previous lessons in the series, on our Italian Lessons […]
New, Free Italian Lesson On ‘Simple’ Prepositions
Sorry I’m late today, but ‘meglio tardi che mai’, right? Today’s free Italian lesson covers ‘simple’ prepositions but is, of course, anything but. There’s a long list of preposition uses to study (better allow some time…) and a couple of exercises to test your mettle. Lesson 52: Simple Prepositions | Italian Lessons Homepage On Friday we’ll […]
New, Free Italian Lesson + ‘Book Of The Week’ Offer
It’s Monday, so time for another free Italian lesson! We’re approaching the end of our ‘grammar lessons’ series, tackling the final few C2 (top level!) topics. From next week, we’ll do something different… Today’s lesson is brief. A short explanation and just the one exercise. But this grammar was new to me, so maybe you’ll […]
Amazing – I got all of these right!
Today’s free Italian lesson is no. 50 in our series and features the relative pronouns ‘che’ and ‘cui’. There’s a brief explanation and two exercises, an easier one and a harder one. But amazingly, I got full marks on both! So there’s hope for me yet. And for you, too, of course. One day, Cinderella, […]
Tense Agreement Exercises (& Easy Reader Offer Reminder)
O.K., today we have one of those topics that Italian teachers love to confuse people with – tense agreement – otherwise known as ‘concordanze verbali’. Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? But when it comes down to it, the lesson is just a list of regularities showing how the verb in a main clause (“I think…”) works together […]
Italian Lesson On Conjunctions + New Easy Reader Published!
Today’s free Italian lesson is on conjunctions and linkers, which are extremely useful but don’t excite me much this Monday morning. However, here’s the link. Decide for yourself. Lesson 48: Conjunctions and Linkers (Or find it on our Italian Lessons Homepage along with the previous 47 lessons in the series.) What IS ringing my bell is our […]
Free Italian Lesson On Finché And Affinché
Today’s free Italian lesson is the first in the C2 (top level!) section of our series of free Italian lessons. It covers those tricky conjunctions ‘finché’ and ‘affinché’. Here are the links you need to get studying: Lesson 47: Finché Italian Lessons Homepage And don’t forget to get your copy of our ‘Book of the […]
I got three of these wrong – you could do better, I’m sure!
Today’s free Italian lesson is on adverbial phrases. It’s basically a list of phrases that you might hear or read, and that might well crop up in a high-level exam, were you to attempt such a thing. Take a look at the lesson. If you’re into memorizing (I’m not), spend a few minutes learning the […]
