Ciao a tutti! Sono Taras. È voi? – Greetings all! I’m Taras. And you?
As usual we skipped noi (we) pronoun. By the parliamo ending the actor is clear – we. See Lesson 3 for the forms of parlare (to speak) verb.
We learned stress rules, and we gonna add some spelling today. And we’ll pick up few new words – name of different languages in Italian.
Ciao a tutti! Sono Taras.
Note: Chi pronounces as [ki]. Ch before vowel sounds as [k]. C before vowel sounds as [ch]
Okay, as we know from Lesson 1, Italian verbs are used in different forms for different pronouns. Happily there are only 3 types of verbs (we skip special cases for now) – ending on -are, -ere and -ire.
Today we gonna learn the conjunction rules for the first type of the verbs. First example will be parlare – to speak verb:
Ciao a tutti! Hi everybody!
Last time we learned pronouns and essere (to be) verb. Let’s try to make statements, questions and answers with them.
In English we generally need both pronoun + verb in a sentence:
In Italian (Italiano), pronouns are often skipped. Of course, you can say:
But, as a rule, you just use verbs – by the form of a verb it’s clear who are you talking about:
Howdy, all?
I decided to move some of my handwritten notes on Italian studies to the blog, in case I lose my papers. There will be 15-20 short lessons – the very essence of Italian grammar, absolute minimum you should know to start speaking. I know, it’s not easy to start. But if you reach Lesson 7 (modal verbs), you’ll be able to build really a lot of phrases yourself.
We’re starting from pronouns and to be verb.
In the world of big screens and full-screen browsers, pages with too few content can look awful:
Saw that, ha? Blank page bottom with a footer dangling in the middle of a page. Horrible!
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Good day for canoe ride. September, but quite cold already. #photo
