Italian grammar explained in English: free video lessons and clear rules for beginners.
Learn family in Italian: close and extended relatives, the nipote puzzle, possessives with family nouns (mia madre or la mia madre?), dialogues and exercises with answers.
Family in Italian: Vocabulary, Possessives and Exercises Read More »
Italian irregular plurals made easy: -co/-go, -cia/-gia, invariable nouns and double plurals like le braccia/i bracci, with dialogue and two exercises.
Irregular Plurals in Italian: Rules, Exceptions and Exercises Read More »
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 Definite and Indefinite Articles: Rules and Exercises Read More »
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.
Essere and Avere: The Two Essential Italian Verbs Read More »
B2 Italian reading activity on Italo Calvino’s fairy tale “Il naso d’argento”: biography, story summary in Italian, the passato remoto and exercises with answers.
Italo Calvino’s “The Silver Nose”: A B2 Italian Reading Activity Read More »
How to form and use the Italian past perfect subjunctive (congiuntivo trapassato): full conjugation, main uses, common mistakes and exercises with answers.
The Past Perfect Subjunctive: When to Use It and How to Form It Read More »
Swiss-German mistakes in Italian explained by a teacher: word order, noun gender, double consonants, false friends and tu/Lei, with fixes and exercises.
Common Mistakes Swiss-German Speakers Make in Italian Read More »
Italian pronominal verbs such as farcela, andarsene, cavarsela and prendersela explained with tables, a mini-dialogue, common mistakes and exercises with answers.
Pronominal Verbs: Farcela, Andarsene, and Other Essentials Read More »
Learn the sequence of tenses in Italian: how to match indicative and subjunctive in subordinate clauses, with a table, examples and exercises with answers.
Sequence of Tenses in Italian Read More »
Italian grammar A1, lesson 2: how to recognise the gender and number of Italian nouns, masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Video lesson.
Lesson 2: Gender and Number of Italian Nouns (Masculine, Feminine, Plural) Read More »