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, […]
Two Free Italian Grammar Exercises On Pronouns
Ciao a tutti! A short one today, as we’re off to Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, for a final weekend of sun, sailing and relaxation before the big ‘rientro’ (back to work) next week… Anyway, this morning I have two free Italian grammar exercises on pronouns for you. They’re both dropdown exercises, which are my […]
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’ […]
Can’t believe I did that… Sorry!!!
Today I have two free Italian prepositions exercises for you. But first an apology, regarding this week’s ‘Book Of The Week’ offer ‘La cicatrice. Which I promised to discount 50% – to €4.99, from the usual e-book price of €9.99. Except I forgot to apply the discount! Can’t believe I did that… Sorry!!! Anyway, if […]
2 Tenses Exercises (No Subjunctive) & Book Of The Week Offer
Today’s free Italian exercises are B2 – Upper Intermediate level and test your understanding of a range of tense forms (indicative not subjunctive, thankfully!) Tenses – Dropdown Exercise (1) Tenses – Dropdown Exercise (2) If you need to revise the tense forms featured in the exercises, check out our free Italian lessons series, which should […]
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 […]
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 […]