Today I have two new Italian exercises for you to try. The first one’s really easy – you just have to match the nouns and adjectives. Anyone with a reasonable general knowledge should do fairly well at it. Adjectives from nouns The other one, unfortunately, didn’t go so well for me – I scored only […]
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 […]
Three More Italian Exercises, And A New Easy Reader!
Buon giorno a tutti! Today, I have three more Italian grammar exercises for you, and details of our new easy reader! As I mentioned last week, I’m now working on tidying up our recent Italian Lessons series, specifically, finding a home for all the various bits and pieces on our site that need to be […]
Five Free Exercises On Italian Prepositions
I’m back to working on our Italian Grammar Lessons series, a never-ending task it seems! The first job is to format all of the exercises not yet done, and ideally to find a home for them in one of the existing 54 lessons… Perhaps you’d like to help? Below are links to five exercises on […]
‘Learn Italian Without Studying’ & Italian Regions Listenings
Buondi! This morning, I’m linking to an article on the ‘other’ website, plus we have some more listenings for you to do. Roberto Gamberini is an Italian teacher, based in Rome I think. I’ve never actually met the guy, but I am always happy to publish anything he writes, as his stuff is so good. […]
Free Italian Lesson On Articulated (Compound) Prepositions
Today’s free Italian lesson follows on from Wednesday’s, which was on ‘simple’ prepositions, with a list of the numerous ‘articulated’ (or ‘compound’) prepositions. Here’s the link you need to read the explanation and do the exercises: Lesson 53: Articulated (Compound) Prepositions Or find both of them, and previous lessons in the series, on our Italian Lessons […]
New, Free Italian Lesson On ‘Simple’ Prepositions
Sorry I’m late today, but ‘meglio tardi che mai’, right? Today’s free Italian lesson covers ‘simple’ prepositions but is, of course, anything but. There’s a long list of preposition uses to study (better allow some time…) and a couple of exercises to test your mettle. Lesson 52: Simple Prepositions | Italian Lessons Homepage On Friday we’ll […]
Tense Agreement Exercises (& Easy Reader Offer Reminder)
O.K., today we have one of those topics that Italian teachers love to confuse people with – tense agreement – otherwise known as ‘concordanze verbali’. Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? But when it comes down to it, the lesson is just a list of regularities showing how the verb in a main clause (“I think…”) works together […]
Italian Lesson On Conjunctions + New Easy Reader Published!
Today’s free Italian lesson is on conjunctions and linkers, which are extremely useful but don’t excite me much this Monday morning. However, here’s the link. Decide for yourself. Lesson 48: Conjunctions and Linkers (Or find it on our Italian Lessons Homepage along with the previous 47 lessons in the series.) What IS ringing my bell is our […]