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Today Cristina is going to tell us about San Marino. Today’s advanced Italian Audio Blog is entirely in Italian. For the lesson transcript and translation, stop by ItalianPod101.com. Also stop by for more learning materials, easy lessons for beginners and online review questions. And be sure to leave us a post! Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload MonologueDownload Review [...]

The much-awaited day has arrived. Manuel ha gone to Giulia’s place. They are about to go out to dinner. And the restaurant is the much hyped Girasoli (Sunflower) restaurant. But wait Giulia is saying something that makes Manuel edgy! In today’s lesson we are going to focus on using the hypothetical period. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Looks like a little flattery will get you everywhere. Ana said exactly what she needed to say and the official bought it! Join Natalia and Carlos for their explanation of how to relate to someone what someone else told you, in this case, in order to support your claim. What? It [...]

Elena and Luca haven’t seen each other in a while. Let us see what they are going to talk about. What Italian words can we use to translate the English “some”, “any”, “a few”, a lot of”, and so on? Today we will be studying the so called partitivo and its different usages. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue [...]

In today’s lesson, we will be analyzing the Futuro Semplice tense of the verbs essere (to be) and avere (to have). The explanation regarding the usage notes, along with the analysis of the similarities and differences between Futuro Semplice and the English equivalent Simple Future, provided in a future lessons. John and Laura are talking about [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Do you believe that people can change? Well, it looks like Jaime is actually taking some steps in the right direction. This is the lesson for anyone who has good intentions, only to find out later that the work has already been done! Join Carlos and Natalia as they share a [...]

Another Thursday, another Beginner Lesson and a lot of fun and exciting things to learn: Today we will cover reflexive verbs, German bathroom habits and how they differ from American ones, what kind of bathroom items you might want to bring with you but at the same time might not be able to get past airport [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Who is your favorite author from Spain? Learn about literature and Spanish with Spanishpod101.com’s upper echelon team, Kathy and Ana. Not only will you learn about some specific authors, they also manage to throw in an explanation of the Subjunctive mood. How is it characterized? You are going to have to [...]

Learn JapanesePod101.com You “have to” do this. You “have to” do that. Everyone is always talking about what you “have to” do. But what about things you don’t have to do? Think about it. Talking about what “you don’t have to” do is just and critical as discussing what you do. Think about how often [...]

Roberto Benigni. He doesn’t need any introductions, but if you don’t know who he is start listening to today’s audio blog! Ciao Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload MonologueDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

In today’s lesson, we will be studying certain expressions and words that, due to their graphic similarity to other English terms, might mislead students as to recognize their proper meaning. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Today we have a dialogue full of idiomatic expressions, we are going to study how to use the preposition di, see the Italian word giro and its different usages and the corresponding English translation. So why did Anna spend the night in and didn’t hang around with Luca and Peter? In today’s dialogue Peter asks [...]

Lena and Michael are saying goodbye. After 25 lessons, you can no longer be called a newbie, and so this series is making space for a new upper-beginner or lower-intermediate series that will lead you further. Today though, join us for a review of a lot of things that you learned in German! Download AudioDownload Dialog [...]

I am sure you have seen the beautiful Venetian masks in many Hollywood movies. Today at italianpod101 we are going to take a detailed look at how and when they were used in real life! In this series, we’ll use all Italian blogs to explore the people and places of Italy. Today immerse yourself in Italian, [...]

What’s next? That’s exactly the question John and Michaela are going to tackle in todays lesson. The two are planning the next day. Will they finally get to the sightseeing? Just in case we are going to give 6 useful tips on sightseeing in Germany. Among them are going to be as valuable informations as to how [...]

In today’s lesson, we will review the Italian periodo ipotetico, the theoretical functioning of its three main types, along with their tense agreement structure. Moreover, we will provide you with useful usage notes and learning tips. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Your friend was supposed to be here ages ago. You wait and wait and wait, getting more annoyed by the minute, but there is still no sign of him. Finally he shows up and explains that first his wife wouldn’t let him go, then the dog stole the car keys, the car was out of [...]

In today’s lesson we will see how to translate an English negative sentence in Italian, how to use the clauses nonand niente, and the usage of the word magari to express wishes and desires. We will also study another interrogative adverb we use in Italian in place of perché. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review [...]

In today’s class, we shall study the imperfetto appropriate contextual usage of the three conjugations regular and irregular verbs. In addition, we will review their inflections, along with the correct stress to employ with the six persons. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! It’s cool to recycle. Scientists tell us that it helps fight global warming and reduces landfill. Nowadays it seems that one can’t throw out anything glass, plastic, paper or organic into the rubbish; it must all be sorted. But the people of Gambettola have been doing this for eons. They have [...]

The well-known German song “Dschinghis Khan” by the group Dschinghis Khan is a bit silly, but it lends itself well to drinking, and you may even find it in Karaoke bars outside of Germany. So join us for a fun German lesson that will teach you a lot of useful colloquial German vocabulary. We will [...]

In today’s lesson, we will be studying the hypothetical period third type, the periodo ipotetico della irrealtà. Moreover, we’ll see the differences between this type of hypothetical period and the two we analyzed in previous classes. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Luca notices Peter’s iPhone and would like to to try it out. When a friend has a piece of new technology, everyone is dying to try it. What would you say if a friend asked: “Lo posso provare?” Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Suppose you’re invited to a German party and you don’t want to waste money, effort and good food by bringing something that people already have. How can you find out what the others are bringing and what is still missing? Find out today, and also learn more about a German specialty: cakes. Germany is the [...]

In today’s lesson, we will be studying the imperfetto tense of the third conjugation verbs. The description regards both irregular and regular verbs belonging to this category, except the verb dire (to say; to tell), which is be analyzed independently. Download AudioDownload Lesson NotesDownload Dialogue - InformalDownload Review TrackDownload Premium Learning Center

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Have you ever been annoyed when someone leaves a mess wherever they go? Well, so has Isabel. Join Carlos and Natalia as they discuss the benefits of cleanliness and the importance of recognizing implicit subject pronouns. How do you recognize this? All you have to do is click the button and [...]

“You’ve never heard of David?” You ask incredulously! You’ve met a young Italian art student in a Florence cafe. You have struck up a conversation with him about Florence, and all of the amazing art that you’ve seen. Florence was, after all, the center of the European Renaissance. And Michelangelo’s David, the most famous sculpture [...]

On any given day, half of the messages from ItalianPod101.com are asking for one thing. What do you think it is? No, not photos of Cinzia and Marco. We’ve had a substantial drop in requests since they revealed their faces on the Meet The Team page. Give up? It’s requests for lessons on food! As [...]

Your boss wants you to work extra hours, your partner complains that you’re not doing enough around the house, you are not making any progress on your personal projects and you haven’t seen your friends in weeks… you need more time! John is suffering from a crowded schedule, but those postcards do need writing, and of [...]

Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! What do you do if you feel sick in Spain? Well, ask Megan and David because they know exactly what to do. Not only do they have practical advice about “farmacias”. What are they? Well, you can take a guess by looking at the word. They also explain the preference toward [...]