Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Before you leave your friend’s birthday party, the girl who bent your ear for more than an hour about her ex-boyfriend tells you in Italian, “Thanks for listening to me and for offering me advice. I appreciate it.” You tell her in Italian, “It’s no problem. I just hope you find a solution to your problem.” As you finish uttering your statement, you see her ex-boyfriend cross the room with the girl in question. Your acquaintance hides behind you and asks you in Italian, “I know they’re going back to his place for a nightcap and who knows what else.” You tell her in Italian, “You’ve got to stop worrying about this. You’re making yourself crazy. Why don’t you go to the bar and maybe you’ll end up finding someone nice to go home with too!” And you think to yourself in Italian, “And at the very least, I’ll be able to get out of here!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will show you the limitations of the present progressive tense in Italian and teach you how to use it in tandem with the simple future tense. We’ll also describe an Italian military hero who dominated his opponents during the Renaissance. 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! Your younger brother plops down on the couch next to you and asks in Italian, “Hey, bro, what are you reading?” You respond in Italian, “It’s a book about the art of war…I think it will help me with the ladies.” Your brother asks in Italian, “How does that work? I don’t see anything similar between war and girls.” You explain to your brother in Italian, “When you get older, you’ll understand. For now, just know that women are complicated, and it’s like going to war.” Your brother then looks at the other books around you and says in Italian, “What’s this book about? It’s got the longest title I’ve ever seen!” You reply in Italian, “That, little brother, is a book about dueling. I thought it might impress the ladies if I learned how to fight for their honor. What do you think?” Your little brother tells you in Italian, “I think it’s time for you to come outside and start playing games with me!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will show you how to form and use the present progressive tense in Italian. In addition, we’ll describe the elaborate rules an Italian author developed for fencing. 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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You’re walking to a restaurant in Florence, when you see a kindly old lady pushing a shopping cart across the road. She’s having trouble walking, and out of kindness you run over to and try to help her. She pulls a small handbag out of the cart, clubs you over the head with it and calls screams for the police. You can’t blame her. As you take blows to the head, you realise that if you had called out “Let me help you!” before approaching her, she might have realised that you only meant to help, and weren’t a young thief looking to steal something. Luckily in today’s Italian language lesson, we will be discussing the courtesy forms employed in Italy related to helping people when they perform an ongoing action at the present time. Usually, this type of dialogue is meant to be started by the person who notices his friend in need of assistance, but might also be used to reassure old ladies that you are just trying to help. 
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