The Italian conditional (condizionale) does five jobs with one tense family: polite requests, softened opinions, counterfactual wishes, hearsay reporting, and a peculiar job called future-in-the-past where English speakers expect a present conditional but Italian demands the past conditional. Learn the forms, pin down the five uses, and you will stop translating “I would go” with … Read more ≫
Le frasi causali indicano la causa, il motivo dell’azione descritta nella frase principale Visto che non hai voglia di uscire, stasera rimarremo a casa. “Visto che non hai voglia di uscire…” è una frase subordinata causale, (o “proposizione causale”) che dà informazioni sulla frase principale (o “proposizione reggente”), spiegando perché “stasera rimarremo a casa”. La … Read more ≫
Italian has at least eight ways to say “although.” Pick the wrong one and you sound either stiffly bookish or accidentally hypothetical. Pick the right one and you get to use the subjunctive on purpose, which is a small victory most learners never taste. Sebbene, benché, nonostante, anche se, per quanto, pur + gerund, neanche … Read more ≫
Time to review some basic topics Regular and irregular verbs, Passato Prossimo VS Imperfetto, Essere VS Avere. If you are a beginner, check your abilities. If your level is more advanced, be careful. “Beginner” doesn’t mean “easy”. Siete pronti?
🔍 What you will master. The preposition per is the Italian chameleon. It hides inside dozens of idioms that sound completely different from their word-by-word English translation. By the end of this guide you will handle per un pelo, per poco non, stare per, dare per scontato and a tu per tu the way Italians … Read more ≫
Brevemente, rivediamo i principali pronomi e aggettivi dimostrativi con un esercizio. In questa tabella, ci sono i principali aggettivi e pronomi dimostrativi. Alcuni fatti da considerare Mi piace quella macchina bianca. (aggettivo) Quella rossa, no. (pronome) L’aggettivo descrive il “nome”, il pronome lo sostituisce. “Quelli” è solo un pronome. Possiamo aggiungere alla tabella … Read more ≫
Italian preposition SU in every role: place, topic, approximate age and quantity, manner, partitive ratios, idioms. Five traps and 12 idioms for sounding Italian.
TL;DR. Italian formal email is more codified than its english counterpart. Open with Gentile + name or Egregio for high-status. Use Lei (third singular) plus the conditional for politeness (vorrei, potrebbe). Close with Cordiali saluti or Distinti saluti. B1/B2 guide with templates for hotel, school, business. Cosa impareremo oggi 👆🏻 Jump to section The rule: … Read more ≫
Italian preposition CON in every role: accompaniment, means, manner, cause, description, idioms. Five traps and 12 idioms to sound Italian.
Italian preposition IN in every role: countries, indoor places, transport, time of completion, manner, idioms. Five traps for English speakers, 12 idioms, a station dialogue.