Archive for the year 2012
Italian Numbers 1 – 20 Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 23, 2012
Below is a simple table of Italian numbers from 1 to 20 for students just starting out in Italian. We’ve also included a video with voice pronunciation. Listen to it a few times, and make sure to practice saying the words out loud too; it can be the hardest part of language learning, but this will really help…
La Leggenda di Lucida Mansi Posted by Geoff on Oct 22, 2012
It seems that every town in Italy has more than its fair share of legends, and Lucca is no exception. Here’s one of my favourites. Like all legends, it has several popular variations. My version contains an amalgam of the most common elements. The Legend of Lucida Mansi Lucida Samminiati, figlia di nobili Lucchesi (daughter…
Grammar Quiz: Trapassato Prossimo e Passato Prossimo – the solutions Posted by Geoff on Oct 19, 2012
Here are the solutions to our quiz about the use of the Trapassato Prossimo and the Passato Prossimo as explained in our recent blogs Trapassato Prossimo e Passato Prossimo and e finì tutto a tarallucci e vino I asked you to complete the following sentences using either the trapassato prossimo or the passato prossimo. Let’s…
Grammar Quiz: Trapassato Prossimo e Passato Prossimo Posted by Geoff on Oct 17, 2012
Here’s a quiz to help you check your knowledge of the use of the Trapassato Prossimo and the Passato Prossimo. If you haven’t already done so you should read our recent blogs Trapassato Prossimo e Passato Prossimo and e finì tutto a tarallucci e vino Complete the following sentences using either the trapassato prossimo or…
e finì tutto a tarallucci e vino Posted by Serena on Oct 16, 2012
In our previous blog we wrote about il Trapassato Prossimo and il Passato . Here’s a little story recounting an event that happened a few days ago. I have highlighted il Trapassato Prossimo in blue, and il Passato Prossimo in red. Sabato mattina dovevamo andare giù a Pontremoli a fare un po’ di spesa, e…
Trapassato Prossimo e Passato Prossimo Posted by Serena on Oct 12, 2012
Il trapassato prossimo (the pluperfect or past perfect tense) describes something that had happened or we had done in the past, for example: era partito (he had left), non ti avevo sentito (I hadn’t heard you). Technically speaking, as you can see from the examples, it’s constructed using the auxiliary verbs essere (to be) or…
Annalisa Posted by Geoff on Oct 9, 2012
Regular readers of our blog will probably have realised that I have una predilezione per le cantanti Italiane (a predilection for Italian female singers). Here’s a great singer that I discovered recently: Annalisa Scarrone, better known simply as Annalisa. Annalisa, who was born in Savona, Liguria, in 1985, became well known last year following her…