The Italian language famously has a large number of verb tenses. But how many of them do you really need to know at first? The number of verb tenses in Italian can be overwhelming to language learners ...

Verbs are words involving doing or being, easy to recognise in English because you can put "to" in front of them - "to live, to be, to speak, to pay, to have". In Italian, verb endings are very ...

The Italian language is under assault from a growing tide of English words, the abandoning of verb tenses and a shrinking vocabulary, and could be driven to extinction altogether, the head of the ...

Whether you're avoiding someone or swerving out of the way of a pothole, there's one verb in Italian that will do the job: schivare (hear it pronounced here). The word has the same root as schifare ...

The Standard Deviants tackle the basics of Italian with lots of vocabulary, definite and indefinite articles and conjugating verbs. Whether you're looking for a refresher or learning Italian for ...