I’m of the firm belief that life’s too short to bother with Italian conditionals. Rather than scratching my head over the grammar, I’ll read something in Italian, while enjoying a cold beer… You won’t, therefore, be surprised to hear that I didn’t do too well on either of today’s two new grammar exercises. Choices, choices. Guess I’ll […]
New Italian Easy Reader ‘L’appuntamento’ (The Appointment)
Many thanks to Mary, Maria, Jean, Marcia and Nina who wrote to me on Monday to tell me that the instructions for this exercise were wrong. I’ve amended the rubric along the lines they suggested: conjugate the verb, use the subjunctive if necessary. And so to today, and to our new Italian easy-reader e-book, ‘L’appuntamento‘. Stefano and Chiara have […]
Start The Week Off Right With 2 Subjunctive Exercises!
Today we’ve having fun with the subjunctive! The first exercise is a gapfill, where you’re supposed to conjugate the verb in the appropriate form of the subjunctive. If you’re feeling lazy, use the ‘Soluzioni’ button to view the answers first. Read the sentences through and try and figure them out. When you’ve understood as much […]
Greetings From The Edge Of The Internet
I’m on holiday in Cornwall, England, which it’s rather trying as the Internet connection is intermittent at best. Part of yesterday afternoon was spent on the broadband helpline with a very nice guy in Kolkata, India. It’s monsoon season there. The rest of the afternoon saw me standing beside one of the local pubs (they […]
‘Che’, ‘Chi’, ‘Cui’… You’re Shitting Me, Right?
Sorry, couldn’t resist trying out my street slang in that title. Guess I’ve been watching too much Netflix… Anway, today we have some more ‘bits and pieces’ exercises that still need to be integrated with our Italian Lessons series. I’m tidying them up, grouping them, trying to figure out where they will eventually end up on […]
Three Comparative/Superlative Exercises + ‘Book Of The Week’
Today I have some exercises on comparative and superlative adjectives for you. Plus there’s a new ‘Book Of The Week’ offer: 50% off an easy Italian reader e-book! But first, three exercises from my ‘bits and pieces’ pile, those which still need to be integrated with our Italian Lessons series. To my surprise it seems we don’t […]
Sixteen Useful Italian Adverbs For You
Matching exercises aren’t my favorite, if for no other reason than that our code always makes the pages look awful. I prefer the dropdown menu ones. Hate gapfills! Maybe it’s because I’m lazy. But today’s two exercises, each of which requires you to match an adverb to its definition, are a prompt to study or […]
3 Exercises On Pronominal Verbs
This morning we have three refurbished exercises on pronominal verbs. ‘Refurbished’ means they’ve been on our site for years, but weren’t included in our recent reorganization. So what are pronominal verbs? Lesson 20 in our Free Online Italian Lessons series covers that, as does Lesson 36. And if my ‘tidying up and sorting out’ system is […]
The Prefix ‘Neo’, A Tense Exercise And A New Easy Reader!
The July offer has ended so it’s back to normal at OnlineItalianClub.com, with materials for learning Italian each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Today I have two refurbished exercises for you, plus the launch of a new easy Italian reader! But let’s begin with the exercises, which are free. The first exercise is on the prefix […]
My Picks To Boost Your Italian (July Offer – 24 Hours To Go!)
There are just 24 hours left until the end of our July Offer. So here are my my personal picks to help you boost your Italian over the coming months. Today I’ve only included things that I would be 100% happy to recommend to anyone studying Italian! Don’t forget, use coupon code July_Offer_2016_15%OFF to reduce the total in […]