Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Whenever you entertain for your Italian friends, you like to make one Italian dish in particular. Without fail, before your parties, your friends always ask you in Italian, “Are you making your special meatball sauce for us? We love it!” You hate to disappoint them, so you always tell them in Italian, “Of course!” It’s a ton of work, but you don’t mind (and you secretly appreciate all the Italian praise you get from your friends, who are food snobs!). One night, as a new acquaintance samples your sauce, he exclaims in Italian, “This sauce is delicious! It’s the best I’ve ever had!” You respond in Italian, “Thank you. I’ve been making it for years, and I’ve got it down to a science.” He inquires in Italian, “Oh yeah? I’d like to make it myself. What do you think about giving me the recipe?” You tell him in Italian, “No way! I can’t have just anyone making my trademark dish!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Lower Intermediate lesson will show you how to use impersonal Italian expressions to offer suggestions. We’ll also tell you about an Italian comedian whose hilarious Italian videos you can find on YouTube. 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 ask your friend in Italian, “Since you don’t want to get ice cream after your date, what do you usually do?” Your friend responds in Italian, “If it’s a nice night, I’ll suggest going for a walk or going to an art show-something where we can watch people or study something else but also talk.” You ponder this for a moment and then inquire further in Italian, “And what do you do if your date says that she is hungry?” Your friend tells you in Italian, “I offer her a few suggestions for late-night snacks.” You ask in Italian, “Such as?” Your friend advises in Italian, “I tell her about a great Italian ice place, and then I also offer up the one surefire place she’ll love. If she loves pastries, and most people do, then you can’t go wrong here!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Lower Intermediate lesson considers an alternative way to form the hypothetical period in Italian by using a gerundio (”gerund”) in the subordinate clause. We’ll also tell you about a popular Italian songwriter and musician who has developed a new style of Italian jazz. 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! After your date tells you in Italian, “We need to go meet up with my friend now,” you decide things are going to go downhill quickly. You’ve met this Italian friend once or twice before, but she always likes to boss people around. You imagine she’ll be telling you what to do in Italian as soon as you arrive. You say to your date in Italian, “Sure, no problem,” but you’re already worried about how her friend will interfere with your plans. As you get into the car, you find yourself daydreaming about how to get out of this mess, and your date says in Italian, “If you’re too tired to drive, I would be happy to drive your car.” You laugh and say in Italian, “No, I’m not too tired. Why do you ask?” Your date says in Italian, “I just noticed that you seemed to be a bit quieter than on the way over here.” You respond in Italian, “Oh, I was just thinking about how much fun dinner was. That’s all.” Smooth move!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Lower Intermediate lesson will teach you how to construct polite requests using both the type I and II Italian hypothetical periods. We’ll also tell you about one of the greatest Italian (and worldwide) soccer players of all time. 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!
Let’s see where they are going to go from there. 
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Your date told you in Italian, “Please excuse me for a moment,” and she headed for the back of the restaurant. Presuming she had to powder her nose (you have had several bottles of Italian wine during dinner, after all), you respond in Italian, “Of course.” However, now you’re starting to worry. You have no idea what might be taking so long…it’s been at least fifteen minutes since she excused herself in Italian. You’ve long drained your wineglass, so the waiter comes to the table and inquires in Italian, “Can I offer you another beverage?” You politely decline in Italian, fully expecting your date to return any second, and you wouldn’t want to presume to order another round if she were ready to leave. You start to wonder to yourself in Italian, “Does this restaurant has a back door that would permit her to escape unseen?” Finally, your date returns to the table, and you tell her in Italian, “I was starting to be concerned that you’d left without me! If you’d been gone any longer, I would have sent a search party!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Lower Intermediate lesson will continue our practice with the Italian hypothetical period, and we’ll also examine how we use the Italian particle ci.
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! While you’re on the way to the Italian restaurant for your date, a number of things run through your mind. First, as your date drives and prattles on endlessly in Italian, you worry to yourself in Italian, “I hope he doesn’t park far from the restaurant. If we have to walk for a while, I’ll freeze and I’ll never warm up again.” While he’s still talking, you continue to tune him out and say to yourself in Italian, “And if I have to walk very far in these new heels, I might get blisters!” When your date parks the car, he says in Italian, “We shouldn’t have to walk very far. It’s only about six blocks from here.” You think to yourself in Italian, “Six blocks! If he had let me out in front of the restaurant, I wouldn’t have to worry about my shoes. And I would have thought he was a gentleman!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Lower Intermediate lesson will teach about fixed expressions that we commonly use in Italian. We’ll also tell you about another use for the Italian hypothetical period and how the two main types of these “if” clauses differ. You’ll also learn about an influential and prolific Italian painter. 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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