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 […]

I’ll be brief this morning as I’ve already spent ages adding the recently published B1-level Italian grammar exercises to the B1 page and to the Italian grammar index. Sooner or later a member of my family is going to remind me that I’m supposed to be on holiday… So today we have the first of […]