Regular Verbs Conjugations in Italian (Present Tense)
Hi there!
We have finally finished the second free Italian video lesson. It took us awhile. I know… many of you were asking via e-mail, some even by phone, when the next video lesson was going to be online.
First, I would like to thank David, Sina, Alexandra, Susa, Wing and Eva for publicly commenting and advising us on many issues that they noticed about the format of the previous video (Reflexive Verbs in Italian). We also took at heart the suggestions that arrived by e-mail from other ex-students of Torre di Babele and certainly those of the growing community of Italian language learners.
By a show of hands! In this case a show of e-mails, we decided to take it down to the basics. So here it’s the Conjugations of Regular Verbs in the Present Tense. If you want to speak Italian you have to know the verbs very well. Without verbs our sentences will have no meaning, usually end up being fragments. In Italian there are three groups of verbs. You can distinguish them from their forms in infinitive: -are, -ere, -ire.
First Conjugation – e.g.: PARLARE.
Second Conjugation – e.g.: PRENDERE
Third Conjugation – e.g.: DORMIRE
What will you learn in this Italian video lesson?
Alvise will show you how you can conjugate regular verbs in the simple present tense. Afterwards you can download the PDF file. We have included two different exercises that deal with the conjugation of regular verbs, plus the respective key to those exercises so that you can track your progress.
Buon lavoro!!
Video Production by: Sven Ilgner // www.svenilgner.com
You can download the exercise and solution file for this video with the following link:
Regular Verbs in Italian
Exercise and Key
Finally, if you like what you have learned, use the share buttons at the bottom of this post to tell your friends about these free video series. There are direct links the most known social networks. As usual, please use the comment section to let us know your thoughts. If you have a particular suggestion, please use the online suggestion form that we have published on the learn italian online page of this blog.
Regards from the Eternal City,
J
Blog Editor
JD
First of all, thank you for your efforts. Good luck on your project.
Your “lighting and sound improvement ” , as suggested by David in his blog, were quite evident.
I did not have Alvisse as a teacher when I attended classes at Torre di Babele in 2006; I think that his presentations are very clear and creative.
Please tell Viola Laett that I have no plans on using the voucher this year and thanks to her, too, for contacting me initially.
JB
Hi Jim…
Well thanks for your reply… actually it’s not just my project. None of this wouldn’t be possible if TDB board of directors wouldn’t have engaged Sven Ilgner. He’s a great Camera Man, Movie Director, Audio Specialist, Lighting Specialist… somehow when we get down to say action, it all seems like a one man show behind the scenes! Besides… without Loredana’s Italian teaching skills (Academic Coordinator), it wouldn’t have been possible to realize the vision of giving back to the community.
I must confess I’m truly excited about the next ones… I hope we keep hearing back from everyone! Help us make this videos better… after all… they are for you!
very nice, well done … superb for the beginners, I’ll share it with my friends
and now is maybe time for something for advanced students
I hope and look forward …
Cari saluti a Roma, amici!
hey eva… thanks for your comments! I promise… we are working on some advance stuff too! Hang in there. There request for basic topics were substantially higher, thus, we had to organize the materials and do these basic video first.
The audio is much better. My wife is sitting on this lesson and I am also sending to my son who was in Italy with me.
Joe Nolan
I’m happy the video is up to everyone’s standards. Thanks for those words Joe. Keep the suggestions coming. Again, we just want to make these videos better for you. By the way, feel free to send it to all your friends that may be interested in learning a new language. I personally know so many that just a month and a week ago made “learning a new language” a New year’s resolution. I interact faster on Facebook. Thus, I thought it would be easier for you guys to use the social networks link we put on the bottom of each post.
Enjoy! And please let us know what your wife and son think!
Ciao a tutti!!! purtroppo questo secondo video nn lo posso vedere.
Nn so cosa sia? Cosa devo fare?
Il primo l’ ho visto con difficoltà, ma stavolta soltanto si vedono qualche immagini.
Ciao Silvia…
è strano che tu non sei riuscita a vedere il video. Non abbiamo mai avuto problemi. Hai scaricato il plug-in di Flash? Perche non mi mandi una e-mail con le specificazione tecniche del tuo computer, cioè sistema operativo e browser? Usa il form “Online Suggestion Box” nella pagina “Italian Online”.
Molto buono! Complimenti! Retornero’ a Roma prossimo junio.
One concern: There is a lot of echo in the classroom which affects the sound. Adding something to absorb the sound like a rug, blankets, pillows, will help the acoustics.
Thanks for the tip peggy… we will keep it in mind. We can’t wait to welcome you back this Summer.
Ciao Violetta, penso che sia un’ buon’ idea di proporre esercizi da fare da sola e sopratutto di mettere anche la chiave, che permette un controllo subito. Mi piacerebbe trovare qualche esercizio un po’ più difficile, ma perciò devo pazientare ancora. Sto preparando l’esame CELI 3, che si svolgerà a Lussemburgo il 7 marzo prossimo. A tal fine ho appena comprato il libro “Un giorno in Italia 2″. Purtroppo non posso sapere se le mie risposte sono giuste o no. A voi tutti auguro un gran successo con la vostra inziativa.
Saluti cordiali
Michèle
Ciao Michèle…
Dovresti cercare il libro delle chiave di “Un giorno in Italia 2″. Noi qui in sede lo abbiamo, ti do il ISBN così lo trovi anche su Amazon o altri siti di vendita di libri online.
ISBN 10: 88-7573-393-7
ISBN 13: 978 – 88-7573-393-7
Spero questa informazione ti sia di aiuto per la preparazione del tuo esame. In bocca al lupo! e tanti saluti dalla Torre!
Ciao
I was looking for the book with the ISBN number and I realized I sent you on an impossible quest. I contacted the book editors and they told me they have it for sale on their site. Here’s the link:
http://www.bonacci.it/index.php?action=productsDetails&flag=search&query=Un%20giorno%20in%20italia&cid=&pid=51
Wonderful revision of my original lessons and the classes I attended in May 2008.
Please keep me on the mailing list!
Ok… Jenni, we will keep you on our mailing list!
Tanti saluti da Roma!
Amici di torre di babel, il vostro video su i verbi è bellissimo, perche non fatte la stessa cosa con i verbi irregolari.
Grazie Isabel
Ciao Isabel,
speriamo di poter mettere un nuovo video al più presto. Forse sui verbi irregolari!
Tanti augri per il tuo studio (dei verbi irregolari)
Saluti,
Viola
Well, you are doing a great effort here, I really appreciate your hard work. I myself am a language teacher and I know how difficult it is to teach the concept of verbs in a lesson. Do you have any video for the use of articles?
Hi!
thank you for your comment!
At the moment there are some more videos in production. We hope we can edit them as soon as possible.
Regards,
Viola
thanks a lot they really helped. I was in italy last week for a month and after coming back i now have this urge to speak it. Ive been learning on line and i hope next time i go there I’ll be fluent! Its kinda easy for me because im fluent in french and they are so similar…! thank you.
Hi Patricia,
Thank you for your comment! It is nice to hear that our videos helped you with your Italian!
What’s abut an Italian course here in Rome, at our school? We would be very happy to know you!
Regards,
Viola
Tenho 56 anos, meu idioma e o Portugues do Brasil, aprendi um pouco de Ingles,tambem um pouco de Espanhol,e com muita dificuldade por falta de tempo e oportunidade.( tempo e dinheiro)
Mas foi tudo muito superfial quando vi e ouvi vc explicar a aula de Italiano…verbos percebi e senti que posso aprender a falar e escrever o Italiano pois consigo entender, voce e otimo por favor continue tenha certeza que vc estara ajudando muitos como eu que tem a internet como unica oportunidade de aprender.
Deus te abençoe muito!
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