Today, another of those dratted pronouns, or ‘particella pronominale’ in this case: ‘ne’. There’s not anything particularly difficult about this one, but it can cause confusion at first. All the more reason to swallow it down with plenty of context, which will help you digest it and absorb it into the fabric of your Italian. […]

Another Monday morning, another free Italian ‘grammar listening’ from our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. Today ‘ci’, which is not intrinsically difficult, but can be confusing at first… You sort of just have to get the hang of it. Listening to the recording a few times should help with that… Go here to revise or learn […]

‘Would Sir like a little grammar for the weekend?’ Absolutely. One never knows… I pronomi indiretti Or catch up on anything you may have missed so far in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of Italian ‘grammar listenings’: A1 – beginner/elementary A2- pre-intermediate B1 – intermediate P.S. A proposito (‘By the way’), have you seen our […]

You know all those ‘lo’ ‘le’ ‘la’ & ‘li’ bits stuck at the end of certain Italian words? Well, I have to admit, they’ve always confused me… But today’s my chance to finally sort them out in my head, thanks to the latest in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series, which today tackles […]

Beginning today, a new level in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ (Grammar, listened to) series of ‘grammar listenings’. They’re especially written by our professional Italian teachers to help you learn or revise every aspect of Italian grammar, one day at a time! And they’re absolutely free, so spread the word… The focus for the next three […]

Here’s the last of our A2-level Italian ‘grammar listenings’ from the ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series. ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ A2-5, Verbi riflessivi Today’s topic is reflexive verbs, as for example in the phrase ‘hurt yourself’, where you are both the ‘doer’ and the ‘done to’. This is one area where Italian and English basically work in […]

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 […]