If you’re learning Italian, one of the biggest problems you’ll face is this: When do you use avere and when do you use essere in the Italian passato prossimo? Most students try to memorize lists.…
Let’s clear this up immediately, because this question comes up all the time. “Tra” or “Fra”?Are they different?Do they mean different things?Should you worry about it? No.They are exactly the same.Completely equivalent.No big deal. Yes,…
One of the biggest mistakes English speakers make in Italian is assuming that prepositions work the same way they do in English. They don’t. In this lesson, we focus on one single preposition: PER.And we’ll…
Today, we’re going to talk about how to make your life easier when you need to approach someone or a group of people and say “Excuse me” or “Sorry.” You know those moments when you’re…
Hello and welcome back!In this lesson, we’ll talk about the Italian preposition “in.”Let me put myself in the corner here and let’s start. “IN” is very important — but yo, every single preposition is important.We’re…
Hello and welcome back! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to conjugate verbs in Italian in the present tense — but in a way that actually makes sense and doesn’t overload your brain with useless…
Hello and welcome back!In this lesson, we’re talking about proposition A — the second one in our list. Like all prepositions, it’s an important one. And we’ll use it in several scenarios: Usages of the…
Welcome back!In this lesson, we’re diving into one of the most fundamental (and tricky) topics in Italian grammar: articles with singular nouns.We’ll explore how to pick the right article, the difference between generic and specific,…
Today, we’re talking about gender and number in Italian. And no, I don’t just mean “Mary” or “John” — I mean every single noun. And when I say every, I wrote it in capitals on…
Learning how to translate the word “still” into Italian can be surprisingly tricky. In English, “still” is a common word with multiple meanings, but Italian doesn’t use just one word for it. Instead, there are…