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Greeting Your New Friends with Perfect Italian

Absolute Beginner Season 1

Learn basic Italian greetings, including how to say "hello"

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Absolute Beginner

Greetings, Tenses, and More: Absolute Beginner Italian

Learn the basics like introducing yourself, greeting people, and more with these lessons!

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Contents

50 Audio Lessons

1

Greeting Your New Friends with Perfect Italian

Learn basic Italian greetings, including how to say "hello"

2

You're Not from Italy, Are You?

Learn how to tell someone where you're from using Italian

3

Of Course You're Doing Well If You're in Italy!

Learn how to ask someone how he or she is doing

4

By Chance, You Aren't Italian, Are You?

Learn the Italian adjectives that you can use to refer to various ethnicities

5

I Can't Believe You Just Asked How Old She Is in Italian!

Learn how to ask someone's age and how to answer

6

Would You Describe Me As Clumsy in Italian?

Learn how to determine the gender and number of Italian nouns

7

Italian Sandwiches Free to a Good Home

Learn how to use Italian definite articles

8

How Much Does That Italian Accessory Cost?

Learn how to ask the cost of items

9

If It's Made in Italy, It's Gotta Be Good!

Learn how to use the second conjugation of Italian verbs

10

How to Pass the Time in Italy

Learn how to form the present tense of the third conjugation of Italian verbs

11

Could Anything Be Better Than THIS Italian Lesson!

Learn how to use the various forms of the Italian word meaning "this"

12

Why Don't We Do This, THAT, and the Other in Italy!

Learn how to use the singular form of the Italian word meaning "that"

13

How Can You Be on a Diet in Italy?

Learn how to use the plural demonstrative adjective that means "these"

14

Can You Eat Those Desserts First in Italy?

Learn how to use the plural demonstrative adjective that means "those"

15

Do You Come to This Italian Place Often?

Learn how to use the Italian adverbs of frequency, such as "often" and "usually"

16

That's It! There Is No More Italian Ice Cream for You!

Learn how to say the Italian equivalents of "there is" and "there are"

17

I Haven't Exercised Enough to Eat This Much Italian Food!

Learn how to form the present perfect tense of first conjugation verbs

18

I Haven't Been on Time in Italy Yet!

Learn how to form the present perfect tense of second conjugation verbs

19

Haven't You Done Enough Italian Work Today?

Learn how to form the present perfect tense of third conjugation Italian verbs

20

I Haven't Struck Out Yet in Italian!

Learn how to form the present perfect tense of two of the most important Italian verbs: the verbs that mean "to be" and "to have"

21

You Can Count on These Italian Words

Learn the Italian ordinal numbers from one to twenty

22

How to Finish First in Italy

Learn how to say the ordinal numbers from one through thirty

23

Don't Worry About Your Future in Italy!

Learn how to form the simple future tense for first conjugation Italian verbs

24

Together, We Will Choose What to Do in Italy

Learn how to form the simple future tense of second conjugation Italian verbs

25

Will You Be an Italian-Speaking Fool?

Learn how to form the simple future tense of third conjugation Italian verbs

26

Are You Able to Use Your Hands in Italian Football?

Learn the first of three modal verbs, potere

27

You Must Try This Italian Wine!

Learn the next in our series of three Italian modal verbs

28

Do You Want an Italian Coffee Break?

Learn the third Italian modal verb, volere, which means "to want" or "to wish"

29

Don't Distract Yourself from This Italian Lesson!

Learn about reflexive Italian verbs

30

I Always Love Learning New Italian Dances

Learn the Italian adverbs of frequency

31

Have You Prepared Yourself for This Italian Lesson?

Learn how to use Italian reflexive verbs in the past tense

32

Are You Flirting with Me in Italian?

Learn the vocabulary for body parts

33

Well, This Is Certainly a Big Italian Mess!

Learn the many ways you can use the Italian adjective bello

34

Are You the Object of Italian Desire?

Learn the singular direct object pronouns

35

Do You Want Them to Join Us for Our Italian Picnic?

Learn the plural versions of Italian direct object pronouns

36

What Are You Listening to in Italian?

Learn how to form the gerundio, which is the present progressive tense of first conjugation Italian verbs

37

Burning Italian Food Is a Surefire Dating Disaster!

Learn how to form the gerundio, the present progressive tense for second and third conjugation Italian verbs

38

Do You Believe in Italian Aliens?

Learn the many ways you can use the multipurpose Italian particle ci

39

I Don't Like Anything But Italian Food!

Learn the Italian verb piacere, which means "to like"

40

Do You Know What This Means in Italian?

Learn two Italian words that mean "to know"

41

Let's Give Him an Italian Surprise!

Learn the Italian singular indirect object pronouns

42

That Italian Performance Left Us Speechless!

Learn the plural indirect object pronouns

43

Do You Need an Italian Rescue?

Learn when and how to use Italian partitive articles

44

Why Are You Ruining That Italian Dish?

Learn how to use the Italian pronoun ne

45

I Was Planning Ahead for This Italian Occasion…

Learn how to form the imperfect tense of Italian verbs

46

My Italian Relatives Used to Teach Me Well…

Learn how to use the imperfect tense of Italian verbs to refer to past habits, past actions in progress, and series of events

47

How Can You Ever Get Tired of Italian Food?

Learn how to use the imperfect tense of Italian verbs to describe a physical, mental, or emotional state

48

Last Night I Dreamed in Italian

Learn two more ways you can use the imperfect verb tense in Italian as a substitute for other tenses and when you're relaying what happened in a dream

49

Italian Has Given Me So Many Reasons to Be Happy!

Learn whether to use the imperfetto or the passato prossimo tense

50

I'm Better at Italian Than You Are!

Learn how to use the different kinds of comparative forms that exist