After the technical disasters of the last 7 days or so, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that today’s release of the fourth in the A2 series of  ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ goes smoothy. Thanks to everyone who wrote supportive messages, by the way. I’ll reply to each of you personally when I get a minute… OK, […]

Ciao there, grammar fiends! Here’s today’s Italian grammar fix. Condizionale presente Or choose from the whole ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series so far: A1 (beginner-elementary) here A2 (pre-intermediate) texts here If your Italian is already better than A2, take a look at the other materials on our Free Online Italian Exercises page. P.S. Like coffee and […]

The latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series is out today. It focuses on the Futuro semplice, another nice & easy Italian tense. Listen/read here. We’re doing A2 (pre-intermediate) tenses at the moment. View the series on our A2 – Free Online Italian Exercises page. If the A2 stuff is on the […]

Apologies for the terrible sound in the first seven of the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. Many thanks also to the few of you who tried to tell us we were embarrassing ourselves… Sorry we didn’t listen. Anyway, we’ve now fixed it, I hope, so if you were frustrated at not being able to hear the […]

Ever been lost in the woods? Check out the latest installment in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of Italian grammar listenings. This one will help you learn or revise verbs which are irregular in the passato prossimo (‘near past’ tense). But it also works as, pretty exciting, listening practice. This is the last of our […]

Continuing our La grammatica ascoltata series of ‘Italian grammar listenings’, today’s listening/transcript is rich with examples of Italian verbs which are regular in the ‘near past’ tense. The ‘passato prossimo’ is one of the few tenses in Italian (other than the present) which are essential for speaking and understanding the language, so you’d do well […]

Call me dumb, but after 17 years of learning Italian, I STILL can’t get my head around ‘I like’. So today’s ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ on piace / piacciono is one which I will be listening to again and again, in the hope that it’s going to finally sink in. Unless you’re new to OnlineItalianClub.com in […]

Here’s the fourth in our series of ‘Italian grammar listenings’, today Essere or Avere? If you’re new to the series, or to our website, the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ texts are not intended to be grammar exercises or explanations (you’ll find those elsewhere on OnlineItalianClub.com). Instead the idea is to provide you with examples of Italian grammar […]

Welcome to new OnlineItalianClub.com members, and ‘ciao’ to our regulars! Today we publish the third in our new series ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (‘Grammar, listened to’). The topic is Italian present tense irregular verbs, one of the major hurdles that we all have to leap when first getting to grips with the language. Listen to / […]

Salve! Just to let you know, the second of our new series ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ is now live on our site. Review (or study for the first time) the present tense of Italian regular verbs. You’ll find links to each article in this series on the A1-Beginner page of the Free Italian Exercises section of […]