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Of course grammar and vocabulary is very important but I think that by using idioms and phrases it is easier to achieve apparent fluency in a language. Many elements of the oral and written sections involve ...

A verb is called reflexive when the subject performs an action on the same subject. For example, ‘I wash myself’ (in Italian ‘Mi lavo’) is reflexive because ‘I’ is both the subject and the object of the verb...

The congiuntivo imperfetto may seem daunting but in reality is quite simple to conjugate as follows... -are verbs (e.g. comprare) io comprassi tu comprassi lui/lei comprasse noi comprassimo voi compraste lor...

Relative pronouns are used to connect two clauses by substituting the noun. There are three main relative pronouns used in Italian. These are: che il quale / la quale / i quali / le quale cui Some of these a...

To show respect to the person you are referring to, in Italian it is important to use the third singular form "lei" instead of the second singular one "tu";as a consequence, all the adjec...