Today’s free Italian lesson covers the conditional past, a necessary building block before we cover the more complex conditional sentences later in this level. It’s quite short, with grammar that shouldn’t prove too intimidating and just the one exercise. This isn’t because we’re getting lazy here at OnlineItalianClub.com HQ, or because we’ve spent our budget […]
Ding, dong. That’ll be Daniel!
“Who’s that at the door?” “That’ll be Daniel. He said he’d pop by with some material on future tenses…” Today’s free Italian grammar lesson is on the Italian future simple form. Click here to go straight to it, or bear with me for a ‘teachery’ moment of explanation. The problem with learning (or teaching) a […]
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Today’s free Italian lesson is on the Italian imperative form. There are explanations of the direct (informal) and indirect (formal) imperative forms, there’s a (very short) listening, and there are three interactive exercises to do. Having worked through all of it yesterday, I now know why I find imperatives so confusing…. Click here for today’s […]
Free Italian Lesson On Prepositions & Italian Reader Offer
Here I am again, this time plugging our new Italian easy reader, ‘La cicatrice‘ (The Scar). Download your free sample chapter to see what it’s about. Then, if the level’s good for you, get the full version from our online shop (at the special first-week price of just €7.50!) Visit our online shop | Browse e-books […]
Un mucchio di materials on Italian verbs!
Today we’ve lesson number 04 in our new ‘Italian Lessons‘ series. It covers ‘Italian Verbs in the present tense‘. The problem with Italian, as most people work out very rapidly, is that you can’t say or understand much at all until you get to grips with conjugating verbs, something that being a native English-speaker doesn’t really […]
Learn or revise Italian plurals (plus ‘Amarcord’ reminder!)
Buon giorno a tutti! Just a quickie today, as I have to rush off and teach. Wednesday’s Italian Lesson on articles was a big success it seems – we had a record number of page views that day! And many thanks to Roger who wrote to me with this correction: Just had a quick look […]
“Sto bene solo quando faccio l’amore”
Today I have for you number 57 (out of 60) in our Italian Conversations series along with a great new ‘Book of the Week’ offer, about which more later. The new dialogue is about renting a room: In viaggio, Affitare una stanza Listen to it here. Or find it on our Italian Conversations homepage. +++ So, this […]
Benvenuti all’hotel Bellavista (Italian dialogue/transcript)
Today’s Italian conversation with transcript is about checking into and out of a hotel. Listen to it now. Or find it on our Italian Conversations homepage, along with the others in the series. They’re all completely free to listen to as often as you like, with no registration or passwords required. So why not help […]
Invitations dialogue (plus transcript) & easy reader offer reminder
Today’s new Italian dialogue with transcript is Contesti sociali, invitare qualcuno, which in English would be ‘inviting someone in a social situation’. I have to apologise for the echo on the audio, but it’s otherwise good practice. Listening to and reading the conversations should just take you a few minutes, so do try to fit it […]
Italian Dialogue: Ice-Cream Shop! (& Sale Ends Tonight…)
It’s Epiphany today, a national holiday here in Italy. Last night a witch named Befana flew past our house on her broomstick to leave candies for the kids who’d been good. And lumps of coal for the naughty ones. Hah! That’ll teach ’em. (You can read all about this Epiphany tradition on Wikipedia, here.) Completely […]