If, by any chance, you have an Italian boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, or worse, Italian children… Then you’ll need the grammar for phrases such as ‘Pick your dirty socks up off the floor’ or ‘Put the top back on the toothpaste tube!’ In which case, today’s exercise will be invaluable, as it covers the imperativo diretto, used for giving instructions […]

Here’s number six in our series of ten new Italian grammar exercises at A2 (pre-intermediate) level. Today’s topic is the Lei (polite) form of the imperative – that is to say, the form you need when you want to tell someone politely to do something – ‘Come in!’, ‘Take a seat!’ and so on. It’s […]

Today’s free Italian exercise is on the ‘imperfetto’, an easy-ish Italian tense which is used a lot in both speech and writing. Click here to try it. Other exercises in this series can be found on our A2 – pre-intermediate page. And while you’re at it, why not check out our free Italian exercises and […]

Monday morning and I’m feeling reflective. Why do English-speakers say ‘I’m going to wash’ while Italians, like my wife, say ‘Vado a lavarMI’. I mean, what’s that extra MI for? Who else would she be planning to wash, first thing on a Monday morning?? Actually, I guess I should have said ‘I’m feeling refleXive’… Which […]

‘Another day, another dollar’ I say to my sleepy son who, before eating his breakfast toast and nutella, has no energy or enthusiasm for the day. ‘And it’s Friday!’ I remind him. Which indeed it is, so here’s the latest in our new series of free Italian grammar exercises. The level is A2/pre-intermediate, so not […]

Here’s todays new Italian grammar exercise. The level is A2, and the topic is the Italian ‘sort-of equivalent’ of the English ‘I am doing’ form, constructed with the verb ‘stare’ and the ‘gerundio’. Take a look at the exercise. It’s easier to understand than it sounds. Click here to try it. N.B. English speakers tend to […]

Someone mentioned our club in the ‘Italian teachers’ group’ on Facebook last week, and as a consequence we’ve had lots of new people ‘joining’, one of whom wrote this to me last night: Hello!!! I just subscribed and I am waiting for the next material!! Couple of questions though! 1) In what form is the […]

Buon giorno a tutti! As we’ve finished the recent series of A1 elementary listening exercises (click here if you missed any), I thought I’d treat to you a sneak preview of our new simplified Italian reader, which will be published on Monday… It tells the story of Luca -a young Italian student chasing his dream […]

Here’s numero otto in our new series of free elementary Italian listening comprehension exercises. Today you have to listen to four descriptions of the apartments people live in – location, type of building, floor, you get the idea. And match each speaker to the description. Simple, except it isn’t quite so easy. To do a […]