Buongiorno a tutti! Today I have two exercises on the imperative (do this, don’t do that). One covers the ‘direct imperative’ and the other deals with the polite, third-person ‘indirect imperative’. There are explanations and further practice material in Lesson 15 of our Free Italian Lessons series. Or you could try the new exercises first, […]
Possessive Adjectives? Reflexive Verbs??
Learning a foreign language can mean having to get to grips with grammatical terminology. Which can be intimidating, if you’re not familiar with it. For example, today’s two free Italian exercises cover possessive adjectives and reflexive verbs. Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, etc.) need to agree with the noun in Italian, rather than with […]
Test Your Knowledge Of These Two Italian Future Tenses
Here’s a challenge for a Monday morning! Two exercises, on two different Italian future tenses. If you’ve not studied these future forms before, or if you’d simply like to revise them before doing the exercises, start with Lesson 17 in our Free Italian Lessons series, which covers the future simple tense. It seems we don’t […]
Two Free Italian Exercises On The Imperfect Tense
Today I have two more ‘refurbished’ exercises from my pile of older stuff that needs to be sorted out, this time on the Italian imperfect tense. The imperfect is a really useful little bit of grammar, common in speech as well as text, and easy to learn and remember (it’s the one with a ‘v’ […]
Life’s too short to bother with Italian conditionals
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 Prepositions Exercises & July Sale Next Week!
Today we have more from my ‘odds and ends’ pile of old exercises that I need to tidy up and add to our free series of Italian Grammar Lessons. Plus there’s a film clip, a reminder of our Book Of the Week offer, and news of next week’s July Sale. But first, the exercises! I’ve […]
Expressions With ‘Fare’ & New ‘Book Of The Week’ Offer!
Ciao a tutti! Today I have just the one exercise for you, but it’s a useful one as it deals with some expressions with the verb ‘fare’ which are in common use in spoken Italian. Click here to take a look: Expressions With ‘Fare’ I’m guessing this one would fit in somewhere in the middle […]
Two ‘New’ Exercises On The Gender Of Nouns
Today I have two more exercises from the stash of bits and pieces that I’m hoping to integrate with our recent Italian Grammar Lessons series. These two exercises are both worth a look but are probably of greater relevance to those of you who’ve been studying Italian for a while: Masculine or feminine? Irregular nouns […]