Welcome to www.italiantutorial.com
This is a free on line tutorial concerning the Italian language. The Italian language is
directly derived from Latin, from which other languages such as French and Spanish are derived.
Actually it is
spoken by about 60 millions people in Italy and Southern Switzerland, and by the little Italian community
around the world (Argentina and US for example).
But there're a lot of people who study it for work or for pleasure.
I hope this site will help them in their study of this marvellous, though difficult, language.
Everything here is for free. You will find a complete
grammatical reference (I should
better say "which aims to be complete") to
help you deal with the most important grammatical concepts.
You will find a
vocabulary section,
some lessons, to help you learn words and expressions
useful in the everyday life and an
exercise section.
There's a section concerning other resources which
can be useful to an Italian learner,like textbooks and
penpals you can practise Italian with.
Main features of Italian language
- 2 genders nouns system:
- As all other romance languages, in Italian nouns are divided into two genders: masculine and feminine.
For nouns of different genders have
different endings
in the singular and in the plural, it is quite
easy to find out what gender a noun belongs to.
Articles, adjectives and past participles have different endings for the two genders, similar to those of nouns. - A verb system based upon three class of verbs with a complex but fairly regular conjugation:
- Italian verbs divide into three categories, depending on the ending of the infinitive form. These categories have some slight difference of conjugation. Compared to English, Italian verbs have different endings for every person, while English has the -s of the third person only. Italian language makes a big use of the subjunctive mode, therefore it is very important. There are a lot of irregular verbs in Italian, but in the most extent they're irregular in a few tenses only, and in all the other are regular. More, even if irregular, they usually follow regular patterns of irregularity (yes, i know what I'm saying) so they're easy to remember.
- Easy pronunciation:
- The Italian alphabet is like the English one, but the sounds (especially vowels) are different. Unlike English, vowels have always the same pronunciation, and words are written the same way they're pronounced.
Who I am
Hi everyone. My name is Boris and I'm Italian (well...it was obvious, I guess). I'm a student of Veterinary Medicine
and I like studying languages too. I know a lot of foreign people who like Italian but they find this language a bit
difficult. I decided to write this site to help them. But for my help to be effective, I need your help too. I've never
taught a foreign language before, and I don't know what a foreigner might find difficult.
So, feel free to contact me for suggestion,
advices, grammar mistakes, insults and everything you want. Thank you in advance (to those who are planning
to send insults too.)
www.italiantutorial.com Copyright Boris Zugolaro 2006
Updates
June 20th, 2006: Lesson 3 on line, six more verbs, and the software page in the Resources section!
May 2nd, 2006: I corrected some mistakes. Thanks, Kevin! (^^)
April 28th, 2006: I added the Resources section.
April 20th, 2006: I started to build the exercise section.
April 10th, 2006: I added the 2nd lesson, the adverbs page and three more useful verbs. Enjoy!
March 17, 2006: I added the 1st lesson, the verb's list and corrected some mistakes. Have fun!
March 8, 2006: Best wishes to all the women out there.
March 7, 2006: Small updates in the site layout.
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