Ever been lost in the woods?
Check out the latest installment in our ‘La grammatica ascoltata’ series of Italian grammar listenings.
This one will help you learn or revise verbs which are irregular in the passato prossimo (‘near past’ tense).
But it also works as, pretty exciting, listening practice.
This is the last of our the A1 (beginner/elementary) level texts.
You’ll find all seven of the recent new pages on the A1 – beginner/elementary page.
On Wednesday I’ll post the first of our A2 grammar listenings, so watch out for that!
Go here for today’s passato prossimo text.
P.S.
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Peace of mind.
Karen says
Good afternoon Daniel
I hope you are having a better day. I am losing the plot a little negotiating the site. I am looking for the biographies of the famous names streets as I missed doing them in my crazy summer. I can’t seem to locate them , or Bar Giovanni. This page, on grammar 7 pops up sometimes with 7 comments, and sometimes with 14 which sends my grey matter in a little spin. I have got the grammar page on Passato Remoto and need to get to grip with it as I have avoided it with great skill and finally must knuckle down. I am getting life back under control, have cut my hair short, sent in the accounts for tax, got more control over my horse, lost 2lb in weight, now just need to get the house back in order after a day with the dynamite toddler twin grandchildren. The ironing will have to wait. I only have so much motivation to draw on and this afternoon is Italian Day. after my grammar I am going to try and cook some Ciambelle al vino and some Migliaccio
Karen says
Scrap the site geography, John has pointed me in the right direction, order is restored.
PS my husband hates my new snappy haircut, oops
Karen says
PPS Stephania will be totally in shock to finalmente receive my homework
Linda Ann Novelli says
I can hear the new reading perfectly! Thanks. I couldn’t figure out why I was having so much difficulty with the volume. Thank you. I am enjoying this site.
Daniel says
Welcome, Linda. And thanks for your feedback. We’re sorry it took us so long to spot the problem..
Karen says
Having been AWOL for a while I was scanning the site looking to see where bar giovanni had gone,(did it not get very much take up? ) when I stumbled upon you other languages pages, Caspita! Great work. Now then, If only I could stop myself putting the Captcha cdoe in the website box by mistake!
Daniel says
Nothing worse than a deserted bar, is there?
It’s still there, but just not on the menu where it looks so obviously empty…
John Thomson says
Hi Karen
I think you will find – Benvenuti Al “Bar Giovanni” on the second page of Daniel’s articles
Select articles
scroll to the end
the last entry is on bottom right – “next page”
click on “next page”
The “bar Giovanni” is, if I remember, the seventh entry – it contains 132 comments
I hope this helps
John
Karen says
Brilliant, thanks John
That may help me find some other stuff I am looking for as well
John Thomson says
Hi
And here was I thinking it was my 81 year old ears !
The volume is now so much better
Thanks to all your team Daniel
Auguri
John
july says
I have given up listening. The volume is very low and there’s nothing wrong with my hearing or my computer’s sound system. The young Italian man who ran the on line conversation meetings last winter – I have forgotten his name – had a clear and loud enough voice when he read listening exercises.. The female voice has always been too soft.
Daniel says
Hello July,
Always nice to hear from you, and thank you for your feedback about the audio.
We realised only yesterday that there was a problem with the sound level – absolutely it’s not your computer, or your hearing!
Unfortunately, we made a mistake when we were recording the tracks, but it wasn’t evident on OUR computer…
Anyway, this morning I replaced all 7 tracks in the ‘La grammatica ascoltata‘ series. They’re now a lot louder, though still not perfect as our emergency re-recordings were done without the usual microphone and suffer from some background noise.
So, please try again! You should find all seven in the series to be ‘hearable’ without effort.
And thanks again for the feedback. If more people were willing to take the time to tell us what they like or don’t like, we’d likely have noticed this issue several weeks ago!
july says
Thank you. The sound is now perfect. Regards, July
Daniel says
Perhaps we could agree on ‘less imperfect’.
But we’re teachers, not sound engineers…
Still, we’ll get there in the end!
Karen says
Thank you Daniel, Now that we are home and getting back into gear these listening exercises are great revision and really useful. You are quite right, it makes sense to absorb grammar in this way
Daniel says
Hi Karen,
Nice to hear from you again.
Thanks for the feedback on the listening exercies.
One question: how’s the volume?
I hear them fine, but several people have written to say that the volume is very low on their computers…
What about you?
Daniel
Karen says
I was fine as I remember, Have just listened to the new one which was perfect. Like the others, I appreciate all the work you put in to this. It really makes the difference .
Daniel says
Thanks Karen. Having a lousy day, and your positive comments make the difference!
Karen says
Lousy days can catch you broadside, draw a line and I hope tomorrow is better. Focus only on the things in your power to change.