Italian grammar explained in English: free video lessons and clear rules for beginners.
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.
Italian Questions and Negation: Question Words, non, mai, niente, nessuno Read More »
Italian -ire verbs in the present tense: when to say “dormo” and when “finisco” (-isc-), with tables, irregular verbs, common mistakes, exercises and answers.
Italian -ire Verbs in the Present Tense: dormo or finisco? Read More »
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 Subject Pronouns: io, tu, lui, lei and the Polite Form «Lei» Read More »
How to conjugate Italian -ere verbs in the present tense: endings, the sounds of c and g, stress, the most useful verbs and exercises with answers.
Italian Present Tense of -ere Verbs: Rules and Exercises Read More »
Raphael’s Baglioni Altarpiece (Galleria Borghese, 1507): the Perugia feud, Michelangelo, the 1608 theft and a C1 Italian workshop on narrative past tenses.
Raphael’s Baglioni Altarpiece: from the tragedy of Perugia to the Entombment of Christ Read More »
Raphael’s Madonna of the Meadow (Vienna, 1505-1506): pyramidal composition, gazes, symbols and a B2 Italian workshop on the simple and compound gerund.
Raphael’s Madonna of the Meadow: the geometry of affection Read More »
Raphael’s Doni Portraits at the Uffizi: the couple’s story, Leonardo’s influence, jewels and symbols, plus a B1-B2 Italian workshop on relative pronouns.
How to conjugate Italian -are verbs in the present tense: endings, verbs in -care, -gare, -ciare, -giare and -iare, the four irregulars andare, dare, fare, stare, and exercises.
Italian Present Tense of -are Verbs: Rules, Exceptions and Exercises Read More »
Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin (Brera, 1504): comparison with Perugino, perspective, the 16-sided temple and Italian art vocabulary for B2-C1 learners.
Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin: how the young painter surpassed Perugino Read More »
Learn colours in Italian: how they agree with nouns, which ones never change (blu, rosa, viola), azzurro vs blu, shades and idioms, with exercises and answers.
Colours in Italian: Agreement, Invariable Colours and Idioms Read More »