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Anna just came back home after a Saturday evening watching a soccer match with Peter and she is having a conversation about Peter with Elena. Anna jokingly asked about Peter’s brother again, and he didn’t seem too pleased about it.
Boys are always a topic of conversation when tra ragazze…
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Dear teacher: I’m sorry, but I haven’t done my homework. Before you punish me, please listen. I have an excuse. Now, I won’t lie to you, my dog didn’t eat it. My house hasn’t burnt down. I wasn’t taken to the emergency room with an acute disease that affected my ability to complete homework assignments. You see, you wrote our homework questions entirely in Italian. I can’t be expected to answer questions written in Italian, can I? So that’s why I didn’t do my homework.
Dear student: You didn’t listen when I explained in class, did you? Your homework is to sign up for a free 7 day trial at ItalianPod101.com, then answer the questions. Detention for you!
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Bologna in Northern Italy, the home of the oldest spaghetti bolognese recipe, and the university of Bologna, the oldest university in the western world. In more recent times, it has been the home of Steve, John’s friend, who moved there from Rome.
In today’s Italian lesson, we will be analyzing the passato prossimo tense of the third conjugation regular verbs. Listen carefully for this important aspect of the Italian language! This tense is easy and useful: the explanation regarding the correct choice of auxiliary verbs presented in lesson 23 fully applies to all three conjugations, including the third one.
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There are many reasons for studying Italian. Maybe Italian ancestry. Italian friends, or marrying into an Italian family. But if you want to impress someone, and don’t mind telling a white lie, try doing some name dropping: “I have always been fascinated with Eugenio Montale’s poetry, and Italo Calvino’s novels. And they’re much better in the original language.” You’ll be guaranteed to impress literary Italians.
In today’s lesson, we will be analyzing the passato prossimo tense of the second conjugation regular verbs. Please, note that the explanation regarding the correct choice of auxiliary verbs presented in lesson 23 fully applies to all three conjugations, including the second one.
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As return home from the supermarket it hits you. You forgot the focacce! Your Italian roommate will be furious. He told you so many times, wrote it down for you and even said pronounced it extra slowly for you. But you completely forgot. What to do?
In today’s lesson, Laura tells John that “I didn’t find your focacce”. We will be analyzing the first conjugation in the passato prossimo tense. Additionally, we will analyze essential guidelines regarding the correct choice of auxiliary verbs for Italian compound tenses.
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Function: using passato prossimo | Topic: passato prossimo, talking about boys | Politeness Level: informal
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