Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! You enthusiastically tell your friend in Italian, “The shopping in Italy is just fantastic!” Your friend responds in Italian, “It’s a little too fantastic. My credit card is almost maxed out.” You tell her in Italian, “Well, it’s a good thing you have several others to choose from when you max out that one.” She laughs and says, “I guess that’s one way to look at it! There’s one more shop here; let’s see if I can’t polish it off.” You walk into the shop and are struck by the impeccable tailoring of the Italian suits. You tell your friend in Italian, “You have to buy one of these. Look how perfect they are!” She responds in Italian, “You’ve got to be kidding me. Look at that price tag.” You try to convince your friend by telling her in Italian, “Well, you have to pay for high quality. You’ll wear this a lifetime. And see, the label says it’s ‘Made in Italy.’ You can’t beat that.” Your friend seems to relent and says in Italian, “Let’s see if we can’t haggle a bit over the price at least.”

Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Absolute Beginner lesson will show you how to use the second conjugation of Italian verbs. We’ll also let you in on a little secret about goods made in Italy. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Before you board your flight to Italy, you confide in your friend in Italian, “I am petrified of flying!” Your friend inquires in Italian, “Why is that?” You respond in Italian, “Because I think every second that the plane might fall out of the sky.” Your friend tells you in Italian, “You’re much more likely to die when riding in a car…and especially when you’re driving it!” You tell your friend in Italian, “That’s not nice! Besides, I witnessed some traumatic news footage of a plane crash when I was five years old, and it’s stayed with me ever since.” Your friend replies in Italian, “That was twenty years ago! You should be over that by now!” You tell your friend in Italian, “Well, I’m not. Can you help me?” You respond in Italian, “Why don’t you chat with the flight attendant? Isn’t this type of thing what they’re for?”

Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Upper Intermediate Italian lesson will teach you how to form the passato remoto (”preterit”) tense for first conjugation Italian verbs. We’ll also teach you some common Italian phrases you’ll need to know if you’re traveling on an Italian airplane. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more great Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! You never seem to be lucky in love, but you can diagnose your Italian friends’ relationships without any trouble. At lunch with your girlfriends, the Italian chatter inevitably turns the topic of trying to understand Italian men. Your friend tells you in Italian, “He was calling me every day, but I haven’t heard from him in a week. You’re the relationship expert. What do you think?” You respond in Italian, “I don’t know whether you want to hear it, but I think that means you need to forget about him and find someone else to date.” Your friend responds in Italian, “Really? I thought maybe he was busy at work.” You reply in Italian, “Who is too busy for a phone call or an e-mail? He has no excuse for not getting in touch, and soon you won’t have an excuse for not moving on!”

Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Upper Intermediate Italian lesson will teach you about the Italian pronominal verbs that mean “to take advantage” of someone or something and “to be an expert.” We’ll also teach you how to toast in Italian and a less pleasant Italian word that means “to suffer.” We wish you nothing but the best in Italian, however! Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more great Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! You’re attending your first Italian opera, and you have discovered that Italian operas are good for just one thing: putting you to sleep. During the intermission, while your Italian friends discuss the intricacies of the actors’ costumes and staging, you nod along and agree in Italian with what they’re saying. But, truthfully, you can’t wait for this first Italian opera to be your last Italian opera!

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the condizionale passato. This conversation takes place among friends in a theater hall during a break. Because the speakers are co-workers and friends, they will be speaking informal Italian. We’ll also tell you about more Gioacchino Rossini, a famous Italian composer, including facts not widely known about his life in Italy. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com, where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Welcome to ItalianPod101.com, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Italian! You are about to try a new, fun way to learn Italian. The core of this new approach is a radio talk show format, which is fun, new, and entertaining, while at the same time effective in getting you speaking Italian from the very first lesson! With our revolutionary “breakdown” approach, you will be speaking Italian, with proper pronunciation, from the very first lesson! When you throw out the books on the old way of learning a language, there will be a bunch of pieces that need to be filled. Well, where the pieces were missing, we developed them, from custom software to things like digital flashcards, to personal vocabulary folders and many other things you won’t find anywhere else. Here at ItalianPod101.com we’re all about giving you a fun and fast way to start speaking Italian from the very first lesson! You are about to find out what millions already know; our system is the best way to get started and stick with studying Italian. Now don’t just take our word for it, start studying now. Buona fortuna! (Good luck!)

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