Daily Italian For Beginners How To Easily Speak Italian With Only 10 Minutes Of Practice A Day

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Daily Italian For Beginners

How To Easily Speak Italian With Only 10 Minutes Of

Practice A Day

By

Bruno Palermo

Table of Contents

Introduction

Day 1: How To Make Sense Of Italian

The Alphabet, Spelling, And Pronunciation

Day 2: The Accent

Day 3: Greetings In Italian

Day 4: Meeting Someone For The First Time Or Fare La Conoscenza Di
Qualcuno

Day 5: The Sentence Structure In Italian

To Recap

Day 6: To Be Or Not To Be?

The Verb Essere Or To Be

Day 7: Phrases Containing The Verb Essere

Day 8: The Conjugations

Day 9: Nouns And Articles

The Noun
Gender: Masculine And Feminine

Day 10: Exceptions In The Grammatical Gender

Heads Up! Grammatical And Natural Gender

Day 11: The Grammatical Number: Singular And Plural

Day 12: Article 1

Indefinite Articles: Un/ Uno/ Una

Day 13: Article 2

Definite Articles: Il, Lo, La / I, Gli, Le

Day 14: Vocabulary: Jobs, Sports, And Athletes

Names Of Jobs
Names Of Sports
Athletes Of These Sports

Day 15: Adjectives 1

Qualifying Adjectives

Day 16: Adjectives We Use To Describe Things

Day 17: Adjectives We Use To Describe People

Day 18: Adjectives 2

The Inflection

Day 19: Conjunctions 1

The Conjunctions E, O, And Ma

Day 20: The Verb To Have

Day 21: Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

Day 22: Asking Questions: The Interrogative Pronouns Quanto? And Quale?

Heads-Up! Exclamations

Day 23: Adjectives 3

Classifying Adjectives

Day 24: Saying People’s Nationality

Day 25: Quanto?

Day 26: Demonstratives

Demonstrative Adjectives And Pronouns

Day 27: Pronouns

Subject And Object Pronouns

Day 28: Possessive Adjectives

Day 29: Possessive Pronouns

Heads-Up!

Day 30: What Time Is It?

Che Ore Sono?

Day 31: The Verb

Day 32: The Present Indicative

Day 33: Irregular Indicative

Day 34: Prepositions

Day 35: Typical Expressions That Use Prepositions

Day 36: Use Of The Present Indicative

Day 37: Days And Months > Dates

Day 38: The Present Tense For Scientific And Historical Facts

Day 39: Verbs For Sports, School, Business And Free Time

Sports
School
Business

Day 40: Talking About Ongoing Actions: The Gerund

Day 41: Prepositions + Articles > Articulated Prepositions

Day 42: Talking About The Past: Actions That Have Taken Place In A
Recent Past

Day 43: Past Participle

False Friends: Passato Prossimo And Present Perfect

Day 44: Verbs With An Irregular Past Participle

Day 45: Talking About The Past: Continuous Actions

Day 46: Conjunctions 2

Addition And Clarification

Day 47: Conjunctions 3

Cause And Correlation

Day 48: The Subjunctive Mood

Day 49: Irregular Subjunctive

Day 50: Present Conditional For Requests

Day 51: Irregular Conditional

Conclusion

Disclaimer

Introduction

You have picked up a book to learn a new language. This time you have
chosen Italian: maybe the Colosseum encouraged you, or the possibility of
taking a romantic gondola ride through the canals of Venice and going to the
Opera. Learning a new language is never easy, and takes time, effort as well
as a lot of practice. Italian is no exception; in fact, it appears to native
speakers of English as having seemingly overwhelming difficulties: the
sentences that change according to gender and grammatical number, the
many moods and verbal tenses used, its vast vocabulary and so on.

In this book, I am going to show you a way to familiarize yourself with
Italian and successfully master the basics of the language for everyday
communication while devoting only 10 minutes each day to studying.

I studied foreign languages and linguistics myself as part of my academic
subjects as I was driven by curiosity and the chance of traveling and working
in a country where the languages I studied were spoken. As a result, I can
affirm that the time that I spent studying books has no doubt made it easier
for me to interact with people and have a grasp of what they were saying
without having to use a dictionary to look up every single word.

I wished I could work near those monuments and that culture that I had
studied and I eventually managed to find a job in a tourist office in the
historic center of one of the most beautiful cities in Italy for me, Naples.

This book was borne out of the desire to share the experience and knowledge
I acquired, and is designed for those who do not have much time to devote to
a more traditional and longer study. By reading this book, you can find all the
grammar alongside the most common and interesting expressions Italians
widely use, organized in convenient daily lessons. It will take only 10
minutes a day to learn Italian: not only abstractly, but aiming at making it
possible for those who take advantage of what is written in this book to use
the language for practical everyday communication.

In return for the time you spend reading and studying this book, you will
achieve the necessary skills to understand and use one of the most beautiful
and sophisticated languages in the world. Whether for tourism, business or
study: from now on, you will have no problem with the language of the “Bel
Paese”.

Do not delay, or else you will also have to postpone all the possibilities that a
new language has for you: travelling, working, learning a new culture,
making new friends. Let’s get started on speaking Italian RIGHT NOW!

The method used in this book has proven results. Each chapter provides new
insights that will help you get a solid grasp of the language AND, little by
little, get to master more complex grammar and language structures. If you
follow the book in its unfolding, we reveal you a number of hints and tips
that will most likely come in handy to enjoy learning Italian without any
particular difficulties.

Day 1: How To Make Sense Of Italian

The Alphabet, Spelling, And Pronunciation

Before you get to the heart of the language, you need to know how to read
and pronounce the words correctly in Italian.

Currently, the Italian alphabet consists of 26 letters. These comprise 21
traditional letters plus 5 letters only recently added in order to write foreign
words, especially English words.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T U, V, W, X, Y, Z

The Italian alphabet is a phonetic alphabet, with each letter representing a
sound as you pronounce it when reading words.

The alphabet, however, does not represent all the sounds of the Italian
pronunciation. In particular:

The vowels “e” and “o” have two distinct pronunciations:

1. / ɛ / as in earth and in Italian bene, centro, lento, è (third-person

singular of the verb essere/to be) > this is the most common
pronunciation and is sometimes indicated by an accent traced
from top left to the bottom right, called grave. In Italian, we call
this pronunciation aperta (open).