One of the more popular lessons in Italian, particularly with children, is the lesson on Italian colors.
Italian Lesson 15 – Telling Time
How to tell time in Italian? This is obviously an important lesson, which will go over the 24-hour clock (aka military time), which is important for airport schedules, bus tickets, etc. It will also discuss the normal 12-hour clock using AM and PM.
Italian Lesson 16 – The Weather
Here is a lesson on the weather in Italian. Phrases such as it’s windy, it’s rainy, it’s foggy, etc. will be discussed. Talking about the weather is a good ice breaker to meet new people. And of course, hopefully you will encounter good weather during your trip.
Italian Lesson 17 – Family and Animals
In the Italian culture, family plays a very important part. And most Italians have a love for animals, especially cats and dogs. This lesson will describe some vocabulary pertaining to those two topics.
Italian Lesson 18 – To Know Facts and People – Conoscere Verb
Here is a miscellaneous Italian lesson dealing with facts and people going over the verb conoscere, which means to know.
Italian Lesson 19 – How to Form Plural Nouns
Forming plural nouns in Italian involves memorizing a few rules. It is not as simple as English, for the most part, where you just add an “s” to the end of the noun. This section also deals with possessive adjectives.
Here are the basic rules in Italian when it comes to forming the plural.
Nouns that end in:
a – the “a” changes to an “e”
o – the “o” changes to an “i”
e – the “e” changes to an “i”
The following lessons below will delve further into the topic:
Part I
Part II
Possessive Adjectives, Italian
Italian Lesson 20 – The Verb Fare – to do or to make
In a previous lesson we talked about the verbs “avere” and “essere” as being the most important verbs to master in Italian. The next most important verb that you should memorize is the verb “fare”, which means to do or to make.
Here is the conjugation of fare in the present tense:
io faccio
tu fai
lui / lei / Lei fa
noi facciamo
voi fate
loro / Loro fanno