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Learn how to use the past tense (passato prossimo) in Italian

In Italian, if you look in a grammar book, there are a lot of tenses to talk about the past.
Here we are going to look at the most important and most used - the passato prossimo (near past).
This tense can be used in most situations, whether recently or quite a long time ago.
An example using [...]

Learn how to use the future tense in Italian

First of all we should take a look at our own language - English has many ways of expressing the future.
Some examples are I will do, I am doing or I am going to do.
Italian is a lot simpler.
Italians either use the present tense (to talk about the very near future) or the future tense [...]

Learn how to use adjectives in Italian

To learn how to use adjectives in Italian, it’s important to not follow rules as they are in English.
First of all you should remember that adjectives nearly always follow the noun that they are describing, e.g. una casa vecchia (”a house old”) not una vecchia casa (an old house).
Secondly, adjectives have to ‘agree’ with the [...]