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Both of the Italian verbs 'stare' and 'essere' can be translated into English as 'to be' in certain contexts. 'Essere' means 'to be' or 'to exist' whilst 'stare' usually means 'to stay.' 'Essere' is most com...

When building a compound tense it is necessary to use the auxiliar "essere" when the verb is a reflexive verb, and/or when the verb is intransitive ( it cannot take a direct object). It is instead ...

In Italian when you have to show respect to a person (somebody you don't know, an older person, a colleague, a teacher... basically everybody who's not a friend) you don't address him a "tu" (you) ...

As I am myself a student of a foreign language, I can provide a method that has surely helped me a lot. You will start actually learn the proper Italian when you will sink yourselves in the real language. St...

The passato remoto is not a very common tense in the italian language. It is only really used when referring to something in the historical past, without much relevance to the now. This means that it is comm...