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Just as with everything else with learning Italian, it turns out that using the conditional tense isn't hard at all, and it's certainly not the complicated matter that people make it out to be.
For anyone looking for an easy and fun language to really get you interested in learning a new language, you can't really go wrong with Tagalog.
Learning a Germanic language if you already know another Germanic language is much easier than learning a language within a completely different branch or family.
Each language feels different when it hits your ear, and feels strange as it exits your mouth — often leaving your tongue twisted into a new, uncomfortable shape.
We've learned about the reflexive pronouns ci and vi, and the partitive pronoun ne, but the Italian pronouns ci, vi, and ne all have secret powers that other pronouns don't have.
The Italian partitive is a special kind of pronoun which functions as a back-reference. It refers back to a direct object specified in a previous sentence - or possibly later in the current sentence.
The bottom line is that grammar is important. It's not something you can just ignore, and hope to 'pick up along the way'.
Today, we'll look at a few more useful Italian word patterns I've found.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a basic introduction to Catalan, having never heard it spoken before. Here are my new impressions.
Here are some essential Italian word patterns that every learner of the language will encounter.