To understand better how to speak in Italian, I always did a comparison between Italian and English. Even with the verbs, there will be no exception. In English we have only 5 forms, and these are:

Present Simple - Present Continuous
Past simple - Present Perfect
Future Simple

Or, so it says my textbook XD Anyway, there are 7 forms of the verb in ( Read more... )

The pronouns - who are you? (Canada dayo~)
Now we know how to indicate a noun with an article. Before going deeply in the grammar, we will study verbs. So we can make simple phrases.
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Articles. Aaaaah... Like I said, everything is male or female. Our penna (pen) is a female. Tavolo (table) is male noun. The is the definite article in English. In Italian...
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Before we start talking about articles, verbs, names, and so on, we need to make clear a thing: every noun in Italian is male or female.
You really should know if a word is male or female before you can say something about it. "this is a pen", like England said to Japan! XD
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First lesson! OMG. I'm a bit nervous.
Let's begin with the "abc", literally. Italian uses the basic occidental alphabet like in English, but without the letters J, K, W, X, Y (that are used for foreign words or some proper name). We have two types of accent. Since this is a basic guide, I will not be too stubborn about it. Let's say all you need is ( Read more... )