Free Italian Grammar Course A1

Free Italian grammar course for beginners (A1): what the course covers, how the video lessons work, and who your native teacher is.

Italian grammar A1, lesson 2: how to recognise the gender and number of Italian nouns, masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Video lesson.

Essere and avere in Italian: how to conjugate them in the present tense, when to use each one, expressions like ho fame and ho 30 anni, and a first look at their role as auxiliaries, with exercises.

Learn Italian articles step by step: il, lo, la, l’, un, uno, una, plus the partitive (dei, degli, delle), a first look at al/nel/della, common mistakes and exercises.

Italian subject pronouns (io, tu, lui, lei, noi, voi, loro): when to drop them, when to use them, and how to choose between informal tu and polite Lei, with examples and exercises.

Italian -ire verbs in the present tense: when to say “dormo” and when “finisco” (-isc-), with tables, irregular verbs, common mistakes, exercises and answers.

How to ask questions and make negative sentences in Italian: question words (chi, che cosa, dove, quando, come, perché, quanto, quale), non, mai, niente, nessuno, and exercises.

How Italian adjectives agree with nouns: forms in -o, -e and -a, plurals in -chi and -ghi, invariable colours, position before or after the noun, and exercises.

How to say where something is in Italian: a, in, da, su, sopra, sotto, davanti a, dietro, vicino a, accanto a, lontano da, with examples, dialogues and exercises.

How to tell the time and say the days of the week, months and dates in Italian: che ore sono?, è l’una, lower-case rules, il primo maggio, with dialogues and exercises.

Italian simple prepositions (di, a, da, in, con, su, per, tra/fra): meanings, main uses, how they differ from improper prepositions, common mistakes, a dialogue and exercises with answers.

Italian articulated prepositions (del, al, dal, nel, sul, col…): full table, how they are formed, when no article is needed, common mistakes, a dialogue and exercises with answers.

Italian possessive adjectives: the forms of mio, tuo, suo, nostro, vostro, loro, when to use the article (mio fratello, i miei fratelli, il loro), common mistakes and exercises.

C’è and ci sono in Italian: when to use singular and plural, c’era and c’erano, the difference from è and sono, common mistakes, a dialogue and exercises with answers.

Italian reflexive verbs: the pronouns mi, ti, si, ci, vi, si, conjugation of lavarsi, the present perfect with essere, reciprocal and inherent reflexives, common mistakes, a dialogue and exercises.

The Italian partitive article (del, dello, della, dei, degli, delle): when to use it, when to leave it out, alternatives like un po’ di, alcuni and ne, common mistakes and exercises with answers.

How the Italian verb piacere works: piace vs piacciono, indirect pronouns, people as subjects, the past tense with essere, common mistakes and exercises with answers.

The informal Italian imperative with tu and voi: regular and irregular forms (va’, fa’, di’, sii), the negative with non + infinitive, pronouns attached to the verb, common mistakes and exercises with answers.

Italian demonstratives explained: questo, quello and codesto, the forms of quel, quello, quell’, quei and quegli, adjectives vs pronouns, common mistakes, a dialogue and exercises with answers.

Italian modal verbs dovere, potere, volere and sapere: meanings, present tense, pronoun position, the auxiliary in the passato prossimo (ho dovuto / sono dovuto), common mistakes and exercises with answers.