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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! Don’t miss out! Keep your ears tuned, as we have three dialogs in order to better explain the usage of the passato prossimo! For more Italian language learning material, exercises, grammar, and the accompanying PDF, visit ItalianPod101.com! Learning at italianpod101.com is really fun! 
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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 your interested in your Italian ancestry, making 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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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! One thing you have been anxious to try since you arrived in Italy is a homemade Italian pizza! Your Italian roommate John has so graciously offered to make one tonight. Now the only thing standing between you and your first authentic Italian pizza is groceries! John writes you a grocery list in Italian complete with everything he needs to make you that mouth-watering Italian pie! Minutes later, you rush around the Italian shop down the street gathering items for your dinner. What’s this focacce? You ask the Italian woman at the counter but she can only offer Italian calzoni. After thirty minutes of desperate searching, you return home and sadly tell John in Italian, “All I have found is calzoni!”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson continues our discussion of the passato prossimo tense from the last lesson. We will also learn the rules for choosing the correct Italian auxiliary verbs in compound tenses. Finally, we’ll learn about Vinitaly, the Italian wine trade fair. 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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