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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today Cristina will immerse us in one of Central Italy’s finest cities, as she take us on an Italian tour of the Adriatic coast! If you haven’t been to the Adriatic coast yet, here is your chance to learn all about it from a native of this beautiful area. Download AudioDownload Lesson [...]

In today’s lesson the setting is a bakery, where a friendly customer inquires if work is going well. We will be considering the congiuntivo presente tense, an additional meaning of the verb andare, the different syntax of time and frequency adverbs and the most common structures used to refer to a determined subgroup within a totality. [...]

Elena meets her friend Luca who just went to the hairdresser. She particularly appreciates his new style, but Luca seems to be disappointed. Although he likes the hairdresser in general terms, he does not like his cut, since he thinks it is too short. In today’s lesson, we will briefly review the structure of mi [...]

Laura and John are discussing their reading preferences. Laura likes poetry more than prose, while her friend seems to be more interested in novels. Laura advises him to read one of the greatest Italian novelists of all time, Italo Calvino, whose masterpieces have been translated in over thirty languages. In today’s lesson, we will be analyzing [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twentieth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Cinzia talks about a famous Italian musician. This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll use all Italian blogs to [...]

The real Marco and Cinzia are in the office. Marco is having a hard time with some work, so kind Cinzia walks over and offers her help. In today’s lesson, we will be discussing the courtesy forms employed in Italy related to helping people when they perform an ongoing action at the present time. Usually, this [...]

Luca is planning to spend a week end in a farmhouse close to Siena together with Elena, so he thinks it would be nice to plan the leisure activities they could do once there. In today’s lesson, we will be continuing the discussion of the verb piacere and its negative form, along with the functioning of [...]

Laura went out to get groceries. When she comes back, John hopes she purchased some focacce (it is a kind of baked flat bread) he much likes, only to be disappointed. In today’s lesson, we will be analyzing the first conjugation in the passato prossimo tense. Additionally, we will analyze essential guidelines regarding the correct choice [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twenty-second Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Angela will take us for a wolk around the area of Viterbo! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll [...]

Manuel wants to know if Giulia is free the following day. She answers that she “thinks” she will go to the beach. In today’s lesson, we will be taking a look at the the expressions credo di and penso di. Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

It’s Saturday night and Elena and Anna are attending a friend’s party! Elena is really tired and she would like to go back home but Anna doesn’t seem to agree… Will Elena just fall asleep on a sofa??? Today we are going to study ho sonno, I am sleepy. But you’d better not be sleepy while [...]

In today’s lesson, we will be analyzing the passato prossimo tense of essere and avere irregular verbs. Since they follow their own conjugation, they do not belong to any standard conjugation. The complete explanation regarding passato prossimo usage will be provided in the oncoming lessons. The dialog takes place between Paolo, a friend of Laura and [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! In today’s lesson we shall see two proverbs dealing with wine. Do you like drinking wine? Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twenty first Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today we are going to enter a famous Italian church, S. Maria del Popolo, and also talk about Italian art! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Roma from the Italian Cultural [...]

In today’s lesson Elena and Anna are working together in the same bakery when Peter arrives at their shop to buy a loaf of bread. The girls decide to play a joke on him by offering him a grissino (breadstick) and ask him to pay for it with an exaggerate amount of money. He does [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-third lesson; Paolo has been invited for dinner at Martina and Laura’s place, he would like to drink a beer so he asks if there are some in the fridge, but the fridge is empty. Martina has only a bottle of red wine. Will Paolo drink red wine [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn about Italian currency and how to talk money! Don’t miss this lesson! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Premium Learning Center

Manuel likes Giulia and would like to organize a date with her. He gathers up some courage and asks her to go to the movie theater together. She asks him what movie he was thinking about and, after having been told two different options, decides to accept Manuel’s kind invitation. In today’s lesson, we will be [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! In today’s lesson we shall see two more proverbs. One of them concerns “scratching around”! Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Standard PodcastDownload Other Media

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our twentieth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Marco teaches us about Italian soccer! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll use all Italian blogs to explore [...]

Anna is sleeping and her friend Elena decides to wake her up. She goes to Anna’s room and wakes her nicely. She then tells Anna that she has to get ready for a busy day, since she has to pay a visit to the museum. Anna acknowledges what her friend is saying, although she is [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-second lesson, learning Italian at Italianpod101.com is really fun! John desires to see Laura again, after the concert in Santa Maria Novella. So he decides to go and visit her at her home. Will he find her? Will he be able to invite her out? Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Dialogue [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn how to lower the price of things you might want to buy. Asking to lower the price essential phrase to learn! Download AudioDownload [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! In today’s lesson we shall see two proverbs dealing with “opportunity”. Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our nineteenth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Marco teaches us about Italian fashion and “Made in Italy”! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll use all [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today is our 17th lesson in our Italian Beginner Lesson Series. Join Cinzia and Marco for fun, yet educational, Italian lessons. Learning Italian, with podcasts, has never been so fun! In today’s lesson, we will be discussing how to ask about vacations, in this case summer vacations, the proper form to refer [...]

Learn Italian with Italianpod101.com! Today is the twenty-first lesson, learning Italian at Italianpod101.com is really fun! Today Laura and John desire to get to know each other a bit better and inquire about their favored spare time activities. Are they so different as not to find a common ground they could both enjoy or is there [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn how to ask for the price of things you might want to buy. With so many nice things to buy in Italy [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. Learning Italian idioms and proverbs offers better insight into the Italian way of thinking and Italian traditional culture! Today’s proverbs talk about daring. Are you a daredevil? Buon ascolto! Download AudioDownload Lesson notesDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Today, is our eighteenth Advanced Italian Audio Blog. Today Angela will talk to us about history of the area of Viterbo! This blog is all in Italian, with an accompanying vocabulary section. Be sure to learn more about Italy from the Italian Cultural Insight section inside the PDF. In this series, we’ll [...]