by Serena | Mar 25, 2024 | beginners
Learning to conjugate verbs is what turns a list of words into real sentences. The good news: Italian verbs follow clear patterns, and once you see them, you can conjugate hundreds of verbs on your own. Here’s how it works, step by step. In short Italian verbs...
by Serena | Mar 14, 2024 | vocabulary pills, beginners, Italian grammar
Andare (to go) is one of the first verbs you learn in Italian and one you’ll use every single day. It’s also irregular, so it’s worth taking a moment to get it right: how to conjugate it, which preposition to use after it, and the everyday...
by Serena | Feb 23, 2024 | vocabulary pills, beginners, Italian grammar
Conjugation of Potere (Present Tense) ItalianEnglishExamplesPossoI can / Can I?Posso aiutarti? (Can I help you?)PuoiYou can / Can you?Perché non puoi venire alla riunione? (Why can’t you join the meeting?)PuòHe/She can / Can he, she?Lui può andare in palestra oggi....
by Serena | Feb 15, 2024 | Italian grammar, beginners
Why it’s Important To Practice Your Italian Pronunciation From Day 1 In over ten years of teaching Italian as a foreign language, I’ve noticed a number of patterns that are next to impossible to get rid of (or that take a great deal of time and work to...
by Serena | Feb 14, 2024 | Italian grammar, beginners
Ho visto la mostra. L’ho vista. Why does visto suddenly become vista? The basic rule is that with avere, the past participle of the passato prossimo usually doesn’t change: lei ha comprato, noi abbiamo comprato. But there is one important exception to...
by Serena | Feb 13, 2024 | beginners, Italian grammar
Verbs ending in -ire are the third and smallest group of Italian verbs, but they include some you’ll use every single day: dormire, sentire, partire, capire, finire, preferire. The only tricky part is that they come in two “flavors”. Once you can...
