You know that old saying about ‘doctors making the worst patients’? Well that’s me: I’m a teacher who hates being taught! I just don’t have the patience for it, and anyway, tend to assume I know better and could get there quicker on my own… I don’t suppose it’s true, but that’s the sort of learner […]
Danger! Unexploded prepositions!
Today’s free grammar exercise offers a useful review of prepositions, one of those minefields in which you are most likely to foul up when trying to actually speak Italian. The problems with prepositions (and with many other grammar areas) stem from the differences between Italian and the student’s own language, and from something called a ‘transfer […]
Exercise on verbi pronominali, and an interesting word!
Today’s free grammar exercise is on ‘verbi pronomiali‘. If you know what they are, click here to test your mettle. But if you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, not to worry. Check out these resources on our site first: Lesson on verbi pronominali (A2 level) Lesson on verbi pronominali (C1 level) And there are […]
Never knew that! (New free exercise on Italian articles)
Today’s free Italian grammar exercise is the first of ten at C1 (advanced) level. I’m not giving you the link just yet, as there are a few things I want to say about it first. If you’re in a hurry, or don’t like reading, scroll down to get to the link RIGHT NOW! But then, […]
Final B2/congiuntivo Italian grammar exercise & reminder
Here’s the last of the B2 grammar exercises, and yes I know that there’s a spelling mistake in no. 5! It seems as if Paolo, who wrote these exercises last year some time, created a series of similar questions by modifying the original, while leaving the spelling mistake intact! ‘Ritardo’ = late. ‘Ritado’ doesn’t mean […]
New Easy Reader (& exercise on when to use congiuntivo!)
Today we’re excited to be publishing a completely new and original Italian easy reader: ‘Correre a tempo‘. Who’s this ‘we’, you might ask? Most of the credit goes to Enrico Maso, Italian teacher and author of ‘La montagna‘, ‘Cielo libero‘ and ‘Ciak si gira‘. Natalia Patruno is OnlineItalianClub.com’s part-time editor and was responsible for all stages […]
How to learn Italian grammar backwards (+ ‘Book of the Day’)
Call me lazy, or impatient maybe, but I hate learning things in the usual order. First studying the rules, then doing a practice exercise or two, and so gradually developing over time what I am able to confidently say and understand in Italian? What a bore. On the other hand, show me some examples of […]
Congiuntivo with adverbs and conjunctions + book of the day!
Many thanks to David Orr who commented on the last article: I cannot access the test your level and click on next question to start the test and nothing happens? We’ve been working on optimising our exercises for search engines (so people can find things when they look for them.) Turns out that our Italian […]
Follow up to Friday’s Italian tenses exercise
This morning, about now, I should be driving our rented car back up a motorway somewhere in the UK, returning from the family holiday in rather damp & windy Cornwall to our home in much-hotter Italy. Hopefully this article will go out automatically. If you’re reading this, it worked! Anyone emailing me today, please be […]
Italian tenses exercise & Book of the Day easy reader offer
Result! I’ve just tried out today’s Italian grammar exercise, which has the intimidating title of ‘Concordanza dei tempi verbali all’indicativo 1‘. When I pressed ‘Punteggio’ (score), the computer flashed up the message: Benissimo! Tutte corrette! The questions are a mix of tenses and conditional forms. If you’re doing plenty of reading and listening in Italian, […]