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 […]

Sorry to those of you in Australia, but today I am way, way behind. It’s a public holiday here in Italy – the ‘Immaculate Conception‘. Which meant getting up later than usual. My teenager daughters explained the reason to me – Mary gets pregnant on the 8th and gives birth on the 25th, that way […]

Here we are at the end of the current series of ‘La grammatica ascoltata’, and today’s ‘grammar listening’ is, quite frankly, one I should find time for myself. The topic is ‘irregular plurals‘, words like finger, knee and others which constantly trip me up when I speak Italian! (Listen to/read today’s text for more examples.) Why […]

Have some Italian prepositions to liven up your Mercoledì. And an interesting text about Italian rivers… There’s truly something for everyone at OnlineItalianClub.com, no? Click here to try today’s free ‘grammar listening’ and so improve your Italian, and knowledge of geography! (You’ll find all the listenings in this series on our A1 page. Or you […]

More from our thrice weekly series ‘La grammatica ascoltata’, and here’s a heavy one for a Monday morning. No way is ‘discorso indiretto‘ an A1-elementary topic, so don’t fret if it looks scary! That said, listening practice is always good. And you can’t know too much grammar. So what’s the harm? When you’re done with discorso […]

In a bit of a rush today, so: click here to do today’s ‘grammar listening’, which deals with the use of ‘che’ and ‘cui’ see all the texts in the current series on our elementary Italian exercises page There’ll be another in the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series on Monday. P.S. 64 of you have listened […]