Here’s an exercise on ‘passato remoto’, which I admit to hardly knowing at all. I scored 7/12 when I tested it – I’m sure you’ll do better! So why do I hardly know this tense at all, even after seventeen years living in Italy? It’s partly due to the fact I’m very lazy / busy […]

Today’s free Italian gammar exercise is on the passive and related forms. If you haven’t studied the passive before, you’ll find notes to help you here and here. By related forms, I mean the impersonal ‘Si’ which is covered here and here, and the variation of the passive with ‘venire’. We don’t seem to have an explanation of that one anywhere […]

Today I have a nice exercise on the various uses of the verb ‘fare’. Just like its English equivalent (to do), ‘fare’ forms part of many useful expressions and so is common in spoken Italian. Click here to try the exercise. Done that, but still have an insatiable thirst for improving your Italian? Below, I’ve pasted […]

I’ll be brief this morning as I’ve already spent ages adding the recently published B1-level Italian grammar exercises to the B1 page and to the Italian grammar index. Sooner or later a member of my family is going to remind me that I’m supposed to be on holiday… So today we have the first of […]

Lots to tell you today, and very little time to tell it in, so here goes: 1. ‘Easy Reader’ Offer The special launch price on our new Italian easy reader (.pdf ebook) ‘L’amore ai tempi del supermercato‘ ends this Sunday. Get yours today, at a 25% discount! Download your free sample chapter (.pdf ebook, also […]