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Lezione Uno
Pagina Uno

Pagina 1

Pagina 2

 

Venere by Sandro Botticelli (To view "Galleria degli Uffizi" click on Venus) (Will open in a new window)

David by Michelangelo (To view "Galleria dell'Accademia" click on David) (Will open in a new window)

Click the icons to hear the dialogue.

	Buongiorno		Buongiorno
	Io mi chiamo Venere.		Io mi chiamo David.
	Io sono italiana.		Io sono italiano.
	Io sono una donna molto bella e famosa.		Io sono un uomo molto bello e famoso.
	Io abito in Italia.		Anch'io abito in Italia.
	Io lavoro a Firenze.		Anch'io lavoro a Firenze.

Listen to the soundfiles and type the text in the text line Write (in Italian) what Venere says	Write the translation in the spaces below
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Write (in Italian) what David says	Write the translation in the spaces below
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The Alphabet: Pronunciation (Will open in a new window)

RECORD your own soundfiles and compare them with the examples.


Click on Instructions
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Write your Autobiography in Italian

My name is
I live in
I work in

Rewrite the sentences you wrote in the space below, read them outloud and confront your pronunciation with the soundfiles at the beginning of the lesson

io sono = I am

io non sono = I am not

Io sono	? una donna un uomo
Io	? sono non sono ? italiano italiana
Io	? sono non sono ? bella bello e ? famosa famoso

Rewrite the sentences you wrote in the space below, read them outloud and confront your pronunciation with the soundfiles.

Click on the gears for the full "grammar lesson".
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MASCHILE E FEMMINILE  (Masculine and Feminine)

In Italian, NOUNS are either Masculine of Feminine. 

Typically, nouns ending with -O are masculine, while nouns ending with -A are feminine.

UOMO ("man" ) is a MASCULINE noun
DONNA ("woman") is a FEMININE noun

ARTICLES and ADJECTIVES must agree in gender (masculine or feminine) with the NOUN they are associated with.

--- UN UOMO ITALIANO 
--- UNA DONNA ITALIANA

UN  ("a") is the masculine form of the indefinite article
UNA ("a") is the feminine form of the indefinite article

ITALIANO / ITALIANA are respectively the masculine and the feminine form of the adjective.

Web activity

NATIONALITIES

Nothing is more international than the Web.
Learn how to use its resources.
Your compito (homework) is to find the Italian translation of adjectives of nationality.

Click on the button below to start.


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Rewrite the sentences above