This lovely little castle in the middle of the countryside near Padua, is a little time machine, where people can eat medieval food, learn how stuff was done without electricity, watch a battle which took place 800 years ago and see the castle set on fire. Built on the banks of the unpredictable river Bacchiglione, … Read more ≫
🔍 Cosa impareremo oggi How Italian stacks an indirect and a direct pronoun into one fused shape (me lo, te la, ce li, ve le). Why gli and le both collapse into glie- and why it welds to the direct pronoun as a single word (glielo, gliela, glieli, gliele, gliene). How to slot the combined … Read more ≫
Ci and ne in Italian are two tiny words that carry half of spoken Italian. Once you stop translating them one-to-one into English and start hearing them as shortcuts for a place, a quantity, a topic or a direction, everything clicks. This guide to ci and ne in Italian covers every normal use of both … Read more ≫
Cosa impareremo oggi Ai paragrafi 👇 Interiezioni: Raw Emotional Expression Intercalari: The Rhythm of Conversation È come il prezzemolo! That’s what Italians say about someone or something you encounter everywhere. “Like parsley!” Just as parsley appears on countless Italian dishes, intercalari and interiezioni are sprinkled throughout Italian conversation to add flavor and emphasis to what … Read more ≫
Articoli partitivi are used to indicate a part, a number out of a total. Some… This is a very short and simple article for beginners. I’m going to introduce a simple way for you to indicate a quantity, pretty much equivalent the English “some”. The Italian articoli partitivi are obtained by adding the preposition di … Read more ≫
In short: Italian adverbs (avverbi) are the invariable words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs to specify how, when, where, how much, or how certain an action is. Italian has three big families: adverbs in -mente (formed from the feminine adjective), lexical adverbs that must be memorised (bene, male, meglio), and phrasal adverbs built … Read more ≫
Gerundio is an Italian “indefinite” mood This is a very basic post about the Italian Gerund. If your level is intermediate to advanced, you may want to have a look at this post in Italian. Also, today we are NOT going through the progressive use of the gerundio (to be doing something or stare + … Read more ≫
Basic Italian sounds There are some few basic rules for pronouncing correctly Italian sounds. Italian is less complicated than other common European languages. That’s because Italian is a literary language, heavily influenced by classic Latin and syllables have just one sound. The Italian alphabet has just 21 letters, since j, k, w, x, and y are … Read more ≫
Italian articles agree with the noun in gender and number, and the form is chosen by the sound that follows. A practical guide to il, lo, la, l’, i, gli, le plus the indefinite un, uno, una, un’ and the preposizioni articolate al, dal, del, nel, sul. Built for English speakers.
Italian possessive adjectives agree with the thing owned, not the owner, and normally keep the definite article (la mia casa). This A2-B1 guide covers the full mio/tuo/suo/nostro/vostro/loro paradigm, the singular-kinship exception and its restorations, suo ambiguity, proprio for co-reference, loro’s invariability, and the post-nominal casa mia pattern.