Today’s free Italian lesson is on the past perfect tense. And lo and behold, it’s an easy one! Easy in the sense that, unusually for Italian, the tense is used in pretty much the same way as in English. And easy because, if you know the past participle and imperfect forms, conjugating this one should […]
Free Italian Lesson On Conditional Past – A Nice Short One!
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 […]
Combined Pronouns! (And ‘Book Of The Week’ Reminder…)
Buondì. Eccomi with another in our series of free online Italian lessons. Today we’re doing ‘combined pronouns‘, which brings back some memories… The only time I ever tried formal Italian lessons was back in about 2003 or 2004, with a private teacher, generously paid for by the British Council, where I then worked. The teacher’s […]
Free Italian Lesson On Passive, Book Of The Week Offer
Buongiorno a tutti! Today we’ve another free Italian lesson from our current series, plus a new Book Of The Week offer on an easy Italian reader we published some time back… But first, the lesson. This week we begin the intermediate topics, and I’ve chosen to start with the Italian passive form. In many respects […]
Free Italian Lesson On Pronominal Verbs: Farcela & Andarsene
It’s Friday, but there’s no let up in the pace at OnlineItalianClub.com! Today we have the twentieth in our series of free Italian grammar lessons, each with an explanation and practice exercises. We’re taking a first look at the pronominal verbs ‘farcela’ and ‘andarsene’. If you don’t know what they are, click the link below […]
Lesson On Subjunctive Present & Easy Reader Offer Reminder
Today’s free Italian lesson covers the subjunctive present form and includes an explanation, an audio, and exercises. Click here to go right to it – 19: Subjunctive Present or find it on our Italian lessons homepage, along with the eighteen previous lessons in the series. Today’s free Italian lesson Italian lessons homepage But wait! Let’s […]
Italian Conditional Present Tense & New Easy Reader!
Buona giornata a tutti! Today we have the launch of our latest Italian easy reader, and of course another free Italian lesson in our series. But first things first: Un’indagine molto privata tells the story of Gianna, who is about to turn 40 and has lately become dissatisfied with her life as a translator of crime fiction. […]
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 […]
New, free Italian lesson – The Imperfect Tense
I’ve spent several hours tidying up the explanation, audio and exercises making up our latest free Italian lesson, which today is on the Italian imperfect tense. As a result, and because it’s back to work today after the Easter break, I’m rather pressed for time and enthusiasm. Hence, a much-shorter-than-usual article this morning. Click here for today’s free […]
Glitch with OnlineItalianClub.com Easter Offer now corrected!
Apologies to everyone who was affected by the glitch with our Easter Offer coupon code: easter monday 20% flash offer By mistake I set it to give a discount of €20, instead of a 20% discount. The consequence was that people buying 10 online Italian lessons, normal price €150, were charged €130 instead of the […]