Continuing our journey through idiomatic expressions, this week we’ll look at twelve common Italian idioms. As in English, idiomatic expressions are phrases whose literal meanings bear little, if any, relation …
The passato prossimo (present perfect) is used in Italian to describe events that have been completed in the recent past or were completed in the distant past but still affect …
While English verbs make no distinction in how long ago an event occurred, the same is not true in Italian. The compound passato prossimo (present perfect) tense is used when …
English has only one definite article: the. However, the Italian l’articolo determinative takes many forms. Which form you should use depends on the number, gender, and first letter of the …
This week we’re going to provide an introduction to Italian present and past participles. In modern Italian, the present participle is usually used as either a noun or an adjective. …
In this lesson we’re going to learn how to conjugate the simple present tense of Italian regular verbs. Similar to the English simple present, presente Italian verbs express what is …