intermediate-eng

I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) is a work written by Alessandro Manzoni and released for the first time in 1827 and it’s formed by 38 chapters. Manzoni, in order to give his work more depth and realism, he didn’t took the credit for its writing but only for the discovery of an ancient manuscript including real-life stories dating back to the 17th century when a great part of Italy was under Spanish rule.

When we interact with a friend, a relative or a person we are familiar with, we tend to be as brief as possible. In fact, we wold never use complex constructs to ask a parent to pass us some water, but simple and short sentences. By the way, most of times Italians use so short that may sound like noises, but actually they have a lot meanings.

In this lesson we go back to talk about grammar, more precisely about very delicate subject that creates many problems, both to foreigners and Italians, that is, the use of conjunctions “finché”, “fin quando”, “fino a quando”, “fino a che”, “fintantoché” and “fino a”.

Smartphones are devices that are present in everybody’s lives and that are used a lot throughout the day.  For this reason, we decided to show you several apps of different types (and most of them are free) that will help you a lot in learning Italian and more.

A common problem among foreign people studying Italian is the inability to understand perfectly what they’re told, even though they can read and write in a perfect Italian or they know the grammar. For this reason, in the this lesson, we are going to test your oral listening skills!

In this article we are not going to talk about Italian grammar or culture… we are going to talk about something really important, the tragic situation that’s afflicting our country and elsewhere: the spreading of the virus COVID-19.