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Lesson LibraryThe Future and Irregular Past: Upper Intermediate Italian

Upper Intermediate

The Future and Irregular Past: Upper Intermediate Italian

Learn how to speak intelligent, nuanced Italian with these lessons.

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Contents

50 Audio Lessons

1

How Can I Get Over My Fear of Flying in Italy?

Learn how to form the passato remoto ("preterit") tense for first conjugation Italian verbs

2

Will Your Italian Professor Give You the Highest Score?

Learn how to form the passato remoto of first conjugation irregular Italian verbs

3

What's That Name You Used to Call Me in Italian?

Learn how to form the passato remoto tense for second conjugation Italian verbs

4

You Interrupted My Favorite Italian Television Show!

Learn how to form the passato prossimo for second conjugation irregular Italian verbs

5

I Know Not of What You Speak in Italian

Learn the Italian proper preposition di, which means "of"

6

Every Week, It's the Same Old Thing with You in Italy

Learn the preposition and its usage

7

You Should Have Used Your Inside Italian Voice!

Learn how to form the passato remoto tense of third conjugation Italian verbs

8

Who Knows Whether the Italian News Is Real?

Learn the conjugations of the Italian auxiliary verbs essere and avere at the passato remoto

9

Don't Go Home Yet: The Italian Night Is Just Getting Started!

Learn how to use the Italian preposition a, meaning "at," "to," or "in"

10

I Needed More Time to Tidy Up My Italian Apartment Before You Arrived

Learn how to form and use the trapassato remoto ("preterit perfect") tense

11

I'll Only Forgive You After You Will Have Told Me Everything in Italian

Learn how to form the futuro anteriore ("future perfect") tense of Italian verbs

12

I Might Have Had Time to Call, But I Had Too Much to Do in Italy

Learn how to use the Italian futuro anteriore verb tense to express the future of probability

13

Do You Want to Buy It from the Italian Store or Do It Yourself?

Learn how to use the Italian preposition da

14

Keep All Your Secrets by Not Speaking Italian at the Salon

Learn about Italian indefinite adjectives that mean "each," "every," and "all"

15

At Least I Speak Better Italian Than Some People

Learn about the Italian indefinite adjectives that mean "some," "any," or "a few"

16

Someone's Italian Words Might Get Him in Trouble!

Learn about Italian indefinite pronouns

17

Is Something Italian Driving You Crazy?

Learn when to use some additional Italian indefinite pronouns, including the Italian words for "something" and "everything"

18

Don't Be Stingy with Your Italian Money!

Learn about the preposition "in"

19

Do You Like to Complain in Italian?

Learn the negative Italian pronouns that mean "nobody," "nothing," and "anything"

20

How Long Will It Take You to Learn to Respond in Italian?

Learn about pronominal Italian verbs that mean "take" and "employ"

21

No Mere Mortal Should Try to Handle This Italian Situation

Learn about the pronominal Italian verbs that mean "to take care," "to think about something," and "to try something"

22

I Just Realized I Didn't Set the Italian Alarm Clock!

Learn about two verbs that use the Italian pronominal particle sene meaning "to realize" and "to go away"

23

Are You an Expert on Italian Love?

Learn about the Italian pronominal verbs that mean "to take advantage" of someone or something and "to be an expert"

24

What's Better Than Winning the Italian Lottery?

Learn about the Italian preposition su, which means "on," "over," and "about"

25

Count on Breaking Out the Italian Champagne to Celebrate This!

Learn about the preposition 'su'

26

When Are You Getting a Haircut in Italy?

Learn how to use the future tense using an informal conversation as an example

27

How Would You Like Your Hair Cut in Italy?

Learn how to use the present conditional using a formal conversation as an example

28

Show Your Gratitude With Italian Focaccia

Learn how to use the past conditional tense to talk about events that might have happened in the past

29

Can You Take A Tip Back in Italy?

Learn about the conditional using an informal conversation as an example

30

Where Should You Spend Your Italian Summer?

Learn how to use the present subjective case from an informal conversation between two friends in Italy

31

We’re On the Road to Nowhere in Italy

Learn about the past subjunctive case

32

Your Crazy Italian Hat is Blocking My View!

Learn how to use conditional sentences for possible situations using an informal conversation as an example

33

Is This Italian Beach Too Crowded?

Learn how to use conditional sentences related to impossible or unreal situations

34

That’s A Weird Italian Food to Have For Breakfast!

Learn how to use conditional sentences to talk about situations which are impossible because they are either related to the past or otherwise impossible

35

Solving An Italian Holiday Dilemma

Learn about using the passive present tense

36

Follow Your Nose To Get Where You’re Going in Italy

Learn how to use the gerund

37

Which Italian Meal Do You Recommend?

Learn how to use the passive voice with the verbs andare and venire instead of essere as the auxiliary verb

38

A Secret Vegetarian in Italy

Learn how to use the subjunctive with the passive voice using an informal conversation between friends as an example

39

What A Boring Italian Palace!

Learn how to use reflexive verbs

40

Too Much Italian Wine Could Make You Miss Your Boat!

Learn about the so-called improper reflexive verbs

41

Getting the VIP Treatment in Italy

Learn about intransitive reflexive verbs

42

Having Fun on an Italian Island

Learn about reciprocal reflexive verbs

43

Why Is Your Italian Boss Calling You On Your Vacation?

Learn about using the Italian word ci as both an indirect object and a demonstrative pronoun

44

Dying of Hunger in Italy

Learn how to use the Italian word ci as a place adverb

45

Seeing the Sights in a Picturesque Italian Town

Learn how to use the Italian particle ne, which can function in some different ways in a sentence

46

Seeing is Believing in Italy

Learn some tips to help you start speaking with someone you've never met before

47

An Italian Summer in the City

Learn about the impersonal form

48

Meeting Your Italian Comic Book Heroes

Learn about reported speech and how to express disinterest in something

49

Who's That Mysterious Italian Girl?

Learn how to use reported speech, how to express surprise, and how to express something you have deduced

50

Enjoy the Italian Summer While it Lasts!

Learn how to use reported speech with the Italian verb chiedere