Food is serious business in Italy... and so are food related verbs!

With this new video you will learn how to use verbs that are related to food and eating out! 

These are the verbs that you will see in this video:

• ANDARE
• FARE
• PRENDERE
• COMPRARE

Learn their conjugation and download a free chart to study them on the go! 

Need to review Irregular Italian verbs?

Check out these videos:

• Learn Irregular Verbs that end with ARE
• Learn Irregular Verbs that end with ERE
• Learn Irregular Verbs that end with IRE

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Today I want to talk about a verb that for sure you use quite commonly also in your own language! What am I talking about? Well it's the verb that you will use to express preferences…so what you like and dislike.

In this video I want to show you the Italian verb PIACERE.

I think that this is an important verb that you might immediately use if you are learning a language from scratch!

Towards the end of the video you will also find a quick exercise to practice immediately what you learn here… and after the exercise I will reveal a fun fact about this verb! Don't miss out!

The verb PIACERE means to like and it is a conjugated like this:

• a me / piace // Mi piace
• a te piace // ti piace
• a lui / lei piace // gli piace , le piace
• a noi piace // ci piace
• a voi piace // vi piace
• a loro piace // gli piace

So if I want to say that "I like pizza"… I will say "Mi piace la pizza"

If I want to say that "you like to swim"... I will say "Ti piace nuotare"  

Or if I...

Ciao! In this lesson you will learn how to use correctly "C’e’ " anche "ci sono".

You will use them when you want to say that something or somebody is physically in a place. So you are stating that something is present so it’s physically there.

Let’s look at some examples to make this more clear:

If I want to talk about the weather I will say

• Oggi ci sono le nuvole — (to say that it’s cloudy)
• Oggi c’è il sole — (to say that it is sunny)

In these two examples you are specifically saying that there are clouds in the sky (ci sono le nuvole) or that there is a sun in the sky (c’è il sole).

As you can see the difference from using one or the other is linked to the subject.

"Oggi ci sono le nuvole"

Let's break it down:

• nuvole means clouds ---> clouds is plural so you will need to use the form CI SONO

On the other hand you have "oggi c'e' il sole"

--> sole means sun --> sun is a singular word...

Watch the video to learn about the Italian possessive adjectives!

You can also find a fun exercise at the end of the video and a nice FREE downloadable flashcard with all the adjectives! Click here for the free download!

Here is a list of the possessive adjectives:

Singular masculine form:

• Il mio
• il tuo
• il suo
• il nostro
• il vostro
• il loro

Plural masculine form:

• i mei
• i tuoi
• i suoi
• i nostri
• i vostri
• i loro

Now… the femminine options are these:

Singular femminine form:

• la mia
• la tua
• la sua
• la nostra
• la vostra
• la loro

and the plural form is

• le mie
• le tue
• le sue
• le nostre
• le vostre
• le loro

You do need to remember a SUPER important rule that deals with possessive adjectives and the article that you see in front of them.

The rule is that when the possessive adjective is indicating a relationship (and by relationship I mean a family noun… like mamma, nonno, zio, sorella etc…) 

in this case you will NOT use an article when it is in the SINGULAR 

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In this new YouTube video lesson you will learn how to describe a person in Italian. You will learn lots of Italian adjectives that are very useful when describing a person's looks.

You can follow the video also with a handy PDF file of the lesson and an extra free flashcard that you can print out if you need to review on the go!

Click here to download the materials for free!

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Descrivere una persona (aspetto fisico) - Describing a person (physical appearance)

The first thing that you need to remember when you are describing a person is that you need to use the verbs ESSERE (to be) and the verb AVERE (to have)

let’s review them quickly:

Essere (to be)

• Io sono
• tu sei
• lui lei è
• noi siamo
• voi siete
• loro sono

Avere (to have)

• Io ho
• tu hai
• lui lei ha
• noi abbiamo
• voi avete
• loro hanno

Remember that for the negative sentences you need to ad NON … look at these sample sentences…

• Io non sono alto…...

If you have been following my channel on YouTube you have now gained some knowledge and vocabulary in Italian… but up to now I hadn’t yet created a video on how to create a simple sentence in Italian. So since many of you are asking for it today I we are going to look at the basic word order.

Do not worry it’s easier than you think! At the end of the video there is a quick exercise to test if you understood everything correctly! Obviously if something is not clear please get in touch with me and I will personally get back with you with more information or extra exercises for you to practice!

Let’s begin with the simple sentences… la frase semplice.

So… what is a simple sentence in Italian… well here is some nice info for you… it’s basically the same as in English but there are a couple of things that you need to be careful with .

What Italians call FRASE SEMPLICE is basically a sentence where you only have one verb plus...

Are you ready to learn some new vocabulary today with me? I hope so… because today’s video talks about body parts.

How will this work… I will show you images of the different body parts and I will pronunce them for you… stop the video if you need to and pronounce them correctly with me!

Take note that I will not add the articles before the nouns… but if you want to you can… and in this way you can add a little extra practice with articles and gender of nouns…

You can also find some useful videos on articles and gender here:

• Click here for a video on Italian Articles
• Click here for a video on Gender of Nouns in Italian
• Click here for a video on Plural Singular in Italian

As always you can download a flashcard with all this information and you can practice with a little exercise at the end… the answers with the articles are in the box below the video!

Click here to download the flashcard

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Learn 7 useful verbs that you will use when you will travel to Italy!

1. PRENOTARE – To book

This verb is obviously very useful because when you are visiting country most likely you will need to book in advance a room in a hotel or b&b or a table at a restaurant or tickets to a museum or a flight or maybe a train!

Let’s now look at this verb inside of a conversation... to see the translation check out the video here above!

• Salve! Chiamo perché vorrei prenotare una camera matrimoniale posso il vostro albergo per tre notti… è possibile?
• Certo! Mi dia le date e controllo subito la disponibilità!
• Vorrei prenotare per le notti del 10-11 e 12 agosto.

Sometimes you plan way ahead of your departure date… and unfortunately you have to cancel a reservation… in this case you will use the verb DISDIRE

2. DISDIRE – to cancel

This verb is very much linked to the first verb that we saw because you need to first make a...

In this video you will learn the rules to correctly conjugate the Present Tense in Italian. We will focus on the rules for the regular verbs.

You can also download here the full lesson with the exercises!

When do you use this verb tense? You use it to talk about actions that:

• are happening now: "Oggi piove" (it's raining today --- today = now)
• a fact: "Io lavoro in banca." (I work in a bank --- fact)
• a habit: "Io gioco a calcio." (I play soccer --- habit) 

You can distinguish verbs by dividing them into 3 groups based on how the infinitive of the verb ends.

To conjugate the verbs you need to remove the last three letters of the infinitive and add the correct ending:

GROUP 1 - Verbs that end with -ARE

ARE: like the verbs lavorare (to work) / studiare (to study) / giocare (to play)

Lavorare (to work)

• io lavoro
• tu lavori
• lui / lei lavora
• noi lavoriamo
• voi lavorate
• loro lavorano

There is a little exception with the verbs that end with -CARE and -GARE

These verbs will need an H...

When you meet somebody one of the first questions that you might ask the person is “where are you from” especially if you are traveling abroad… this could be a question that others might also ask you!

So… How do you say it?

Di dove sei? - where are you from?

Usually you will not simply answer by saying the country or the city where you are from but you will use the nationality.

Here are some examples.

• Di dove sei? (where are you from?)
• Sono italiana. (I'm Italian).
• Sono di Milano. (I'm from Milan).
• E’ americana, di New York. (She is American, from New York).

Da dove vieni? - where do you come from?

• Vengo da Parigi. (I come from Paris).

Now let’s look at the different options for nationality.

Keep in mind that the usual rules for gender and number apply BUT in this case we do have some exceptions. If you need to review the rules on gender and number you can check out my previous video. Here are the direct links to my YouTube Channel: