Today’s free Italian grammar exercise is the first of ten at C1 (advanced) level. I’m not giving you the link just yet, as there are a few things I want to say about it first. If you’re in a hurry, or don’t like reading, scroll down to get to the link RIGHT NOW! But then, […]

Here’s the last of the B2 grammar exercises, and yes I know that there’s a spelling mistake in no. 5! It seems as if Paolo, who wrote these exercises last year some time, created a series of similar questions by modifying the original, while leaving the spelling mistake intact! ‘Ritardo’ = late. ‘Ritado’ doesn’t mean […]

Today we’re excited to be publishing a completely new and original Italian easy reader: ‘Correre a tempo‘. Who’s this ‘we’, you might ask? Most of the credit goes to Enrico Maso, Italian teacher and author of ‘La montagna‘, ‘Cielo libero‘ and ‘Ciak si gira‘. Natalia Patruno is OnlineItalianClub.com’s part-time editor and was responsible for all stages […]

Call me lazy, or impatient maybe, but I hate learning things in the usual order. First studying the rules, then doing a practice exercise or two, and so gradually developing over time what I am able to confidently say and understand in Italian? What a bore. On the other hand, show me some examples of […]

Many thanks to David Orr who commented on the last article: I cannot access the test your level and click on next question to start the test and nothing happens? We’ve been working on optimising our exercises for search engines (so people can find things when they look for them.) Turns out that our Italian […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today I have a nice exercise on the various uses of the verb ‘fare’. Just like its English equivalent (to do), ‘fare’ forms part of many useful expressions and so is common in spoken Italian. Click here to try the exercise. Done that, but still have an insatiable thirst for improving your Italian? Below, I’ve pasted […]