One longer dialogue featuring idiomatic expressions, set phrases, and some typically Italian sour humor. You don't learn Italian through abridged, dumbed-down, unrealistic sentences written in poor Italian; you learn it through dialogues written in high-quality, realistic Italian. You learn it through entertaining stories, well-developed characters, wit, and humor.

Humor, figures of speech, pronouns, idioms, and a touch of melancholy open the gates to let the fall season in.

Three dialogues featuring the hypotheses and conditions with imperfect subjunctive.

When learning a language, your brain must team up with your body for the most effective practice. Find out what exercises you could--and should--include weekly in your language drills.

Conjugating verbs and learning verb conjugations in Italian is always done wrong. If it weren't, everybody would know every tense and every verb inside and out. Here's how it's done.

I bet you know all the theory about the subjunctive mood in Italian, but you still can't use it comfortably in speech. That's because you were taught theory, and theory doesn't work for speech. Only speech works for speech.

This is how many classes or lessons per week one should take as a learner of Italian (or in general any western languages).