If you’re not familiar with the acronym FAQ, it stands for ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Italians use it too (they pronounce it ‘fak’…) So today, given our current offer on online Italian lessons, we’ll start with some of the things people always ask me. After that, I’ll be reminding you of how to get started with […]
You learn something new every day – if you let yourself!
Today’s Italian grammar exercise is on ‘modi indefiniti‘. If you’re thinking ‘what are they?’, be aware that everyone else reading probably is too. Curious, I Googled the term and found an explanation on Italian Wikipedia. If you’re not (yet) confident about reading Italian, here’s a rough translation: The ‘modo indefinito’ is a form of the verb […]
Nice & easy exercise + Online Italian Lesson Promotion
Today we have a nice & easy Italian exercise on ‘Il participio passato’, plus the start of the promised promotion on online Italian lessons. What first? Well, the offer, of course! Here’s a discount code which’ll get you 20% off the price of 1, 5, 10 or more lessons with one of our team of […]
Exercise on Italian gerunds + What sort of learner are you?
You know that old saying about ‘doctors making the worst patients’? Well that’s me: I’m a teacher who hates being taught! I just don’t have the patience for it, and anyway, tend to assume I know better and could get there quicker on my own… I don’t suppose it’s true, but that’s the sort of learner […]
Danger! Unexploded prepositions!
Today’s free grammar exercise offers a useful review of prepositions, one of those minefields in which you are most likely to foul up when trying to actually speak Italian. The problems with prepositions (and with many other grammar areas) stem from the differences between Italian and the student’s own language, and from something called a ‘transfer […]
Exercise on verbi pronominali, and an interesting word!
Today’s free grammar exercise is on ‘verbi pronomiali‘. If you know what they are, click here to test your mettle. But if you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, not to worry. Check out these resources on our site first: Lesson on verbi pronominali (A2 level) Lesson on verbi pronominali (C1 level) And there are […]
Never knew that! (New free exercise on Italian articles)
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, […]
Final B2/congiuntivo Italian grammar exercise & reminder
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 […]
New Easy Reader (& exercise on when to use congiuntivo!)
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 […]
How to learn Italian grammar backwards (+ ‘Book of the Day’)
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 […]