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Instantly Boost Your Italian with these Commonly-used Words Transport: Facciamo un giro in macchinaLet’s go for a drive in the car Prendiamo il traghetto per attraversare il lagoLet’s take the ferry to cross the lake A che ora parte il treno?What time does the train leave? The house: Hai una casa bellissimaYou have a beautiful […]
Finding Your True Motivation to Learn Italian If you are here, it’s because you either really want to learn to speak Italian, or Italian is a language that you’re considering learning and just need that little extra nudge.. The reasons people have for wanting to learn this beautiful and romantic language are varied and many, […]
The Simple Rules for Accurate Italian Vowels Vowels are the cornerstone of Italian. The Italian language is heavily vowel-centered and this is what gives it its lovely melodic sing-song sound that we all know and love. The Italian word for ‘vowel’ is actually VOCALE so you can see the relationship between vowels and ‘vocalizing’ because […]
Mastering the Simple Rules of Italian Syllable Stress The pattern of syllable stress in Italian is not too dissimilar to English. Typically, the stress falls on the penultimate (second last) syllable or the antepenultimate (third last) syllable depending on the type of word. INFORMAZIONE → information ANDIAMO! → Let’s go! MANGIO → I eat DIVERTENTE […]
Why Italian Consonants Are Actually More Predictable Than English Italian consonants are more or less the same as English consonants but the differences are distinct and consistent. Here we have included the consonant letters that have two different pronunciations depending on the vowel that follows, as well as the consonants that are pronounced differently altogether. […]
Understanding Definite and Indefinite Nouns in Italian Don’t let all this technical language overwhelm you! You already use and differentiate between these concepts in English without even realizing it. When we talk about Articles, we are referring to the words that mean: As an English speaker, you instinctively know when to use either. But did […]
Mastering Italian Adjectives: Rules for Gender, Number, and Word Order Being able to describe people, things and places is part of what makes human interaction so colorful and expressive. We all have impressions of things being ‘beautiful’, ‘funny’, or ‘disgusting’, and when speaking Italian, we need to know how to express the same ideas, don’t […]
How to Use Italian Personal Pronouns: A Complete Beginner’s Guide The Italian personal pronouns are how we refer to people without using names. They work more or less in the same way as English with just a couple of important points to mention. Here are the Italian Personal Pronouns: IO → ITU → youLUI → […]
Understanding -ARE, -ERE, and -IRE Verbs: The Three Categories of Italian Grammar Using verbs correctly in Italian is one of the main challenges for English speakers when they first start learning Italian. This is due to the fact that Italian has quite an extensive system of verb conjugation. This frightens a lot of English speakers […]
Present Tense Conjugation of Irregular Italian Verbs As it would turn out, the most common and essential verbs in Italian also happen to be the most irregular verbs. Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t follow the consistent pattern of conjugation that we have already outlined in our previous post. Many of the Present Tense Suffixes […]
Instantly Boost Your Italian with these Commonly-used Words Nationalities: As nationalities are a characteristic of a person, anytime you refer to a person’s nationality, it must agree in gender and number with who you are talking about. Sono americanaI’m American (female) Siete Italiani?Are you guys Italian? Il mio miglior amico è canadeseMy best friend is […]
Learning to Count in Italian is Much Easier Than You Think Learning how to say numbers is one of the first things that we do when learning a language because we use them all the time! We count objects, we count days, weeks, months and years, we use dates, percentages, prices, and we say our […]
