Benvenuti, new OnlineItalianClub.com members (and ‘Ciao’ to all our old friends.) It’s good to see so many people interested in learning Italian, and from countries all around the world, too. The cockles of my heart are warmed each time my smart phone pings to let me know someone new has joined our club! So welcome, or […]

Today’s Italian grammar listening focuses on ‘aggettivi dimostrativi’, which, despite the intimidating grammatical name, are really easy! Go get today’s dose here. See all in the current series here. Or find material that’s right for your level here. P.S. A lot of OnlineItalianClub.com members keep coming back to our site because of the mass of free […]

Here’s today’s ‘Italian grammar listening’. Our topic is ‘aggettivi qualificativi‘, or just ‘adjectives’ if you’d rather keep it simple… The girl is ‘bella’, the girls are ‘belle’, and so on. It’s the second in the ‘Other Grammar Areas‘ section of our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series, which should take us more or less up to Christmas. […]

Buon giorno a tutti! Get today’s ‘grammar listening’, the first in a new series of 14 random grammatical bits and pieces, here. Check out what’s coming in this series – three new texts a week over the next thirty days – on our A1 page. The links on the A1 page will go live as […]

This is the end. Beautiful friend. This is the end. My only friend, the end. But not of our elaborate plans, don’t worry. It’s just the last in the ‘pronouns’ section of our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. It’s also a bit of a flash-back, if you know what I mean, as I think we did […]

Good morning and here’s another pronoun fix for all you Italian grammar addicts out there! Today, ‘i pronomi relativi‘. What are they? Easy. Your uncle = ‘he’, your cousins = ‘they’, your grandmother = ‘she’, and so on. Nah… Only joking. Those, of course, are ‘subject pronouns’. Relative pronouns (in English) are words like ‘who’, […]

Italian is not, basically a hard language. No, it’s not – really! But there are certain things about it that might trip you up on your road to mastering it… One such danger-zone is ‘pronomi combinati’, those impossible-looking combinations of phonemes (like ‘glieli’) which you might notice glued to the end of otherwise normal verbs… […]

I don’t normally send out articles on a Sunday evening, but I thought OnlineItalianClub.com members would be interested in the two new simplified readers/audio books that I’ve just published, literally a few minutes ago. Reading and listening are the most neglected parts of most Italian study programs, but in my opinion absolutely the most important. […]

There’s some tricky vocabulary in today’s ‘grammar listening’. But don’t let that put you off. The topic this time is the particella ‘si’, which is very common, and also very useful! So, even if the text looks at first to be a bit complex, try to listen to the whole thing, maybe aiming just to […]