Your roommate has promised to help you practice speaking Italian, especially your masculine and feminine nouns. You have a big test coming up at the university and you don’t want to fail it simply because you cannot remember which Italian nouns are which! “No” she says in Italian, “that one is masculine! It’s too bad that phrase won’t be on the test…you’d pass with flying colors after you’ve heard it a hundred times in Italian just today! She IS trying to help you know! Why can’t you remember which Italian nouns are masculine? You try to explain to her in Italian, “you guys have told me about Italian masculine nouns one hundred times, and I just don’t get it!” What’s that? How can I make Italian guys shorter and what in the world does that have to do with masculine nouns? How are you going to learn anything if she can’t stick to the subject? Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Beginner lesson will teach you that secret! In this lesson, you will learn the second out of four categories of Italian masculine nouns ending in -a. They are abbreviated Italian nouns that originate from longer Italian nouns. Then we will tell you about the Colonna Palace in Italy. Visit ItalianPod101 when you are finished and start you next fantastic Italian lesson or pick up extra Italian learning resources! Don’t forget to leave us a message while you are there!

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