In over 20 years of Italian study, this is BY FAR, the BEST explanation of the Italian tenses in (perfect) English! I wish that I had seen this years ago. Thank you!!!
It is clear that Italian grammar tenses are build and associated with the mood of the speaker. Which, if you think about it, that is what communication is all about. Great Lesson!!!
Actually, most languages I'm aware of have a concept of mood - even Japanese and to some extent, Chinese. We have it in English too - it's just that most native speakers don't notice because we learned it intuitively through many years of intensive immersion.
I newly moved to Italy. Its been like 3 months I was unable to understand where should I have to start. Now after a long struggle, you came to rescue me. Thanks for your simple and to the point videos. Bravo
Ti faccio i comimenti per la chiarezza. Io sono italiano ed ho vissuto per 15 anni a Londra, quindi capisco bene l'inglese. Finalmente dopo tanti anni sento spiegare più dettagliatamente il motivo per cui ho sempre trovato difficile capire quel concetto di azione iniziata che continua nel tempo, e altre cose simili, che tanto mi mettono in difficoltà nella scelta del giusto tempo passato in inglese. Ovviamente col tempo ho imparato ad usare i tenses giusti nelle varie tipologie di frasi, ma a me piace capire il perché delle cose, per poter avere più autonomia comunicativa. Tu ti starai chiedendo: ma io insegno italiano, non inglese! Vabbè, a me piace imparare un po' tutto quello che ritengo interessante, e mi piacciono tanto le lingue e i dialetti. Ritengo anche che sia importante capire la grammatica, per padroneggiare una lingua. Cosa che spesso viene ritenuta inutile. Poi a scuola spesso si perdeva più tempo ad imparare a memoria le varie coniugazioni, piuttosto che capire perché se ne dovesse usare una oppure un'altra. Alcuni dettagli della nostra grammatica li ho imparati grazie ai libri sui quali mia moglie studiava l'italiano anni fa. Le cose spiegate per farle capire ai madrelingua inglesi, mi hanno aperto un mondo. Anche la fonetica è interessante.
As a native french speaker it’s much easier for me to understand everything since we have the exact same tense in french it’s so similar !! I had fun finding every equivalents haha Presente->présent passato prossimo->passé composé imperfetto->imparfait future->futur condizionale->conditionnel congiuntivo->subjonctif imperativo->impératif
Video's like this help tie up loose ends from the book study. Verbs and their conjugations and proper usage, for me, have been the most challenging part of learning Italian. You are a very good teacher.
I’m native Dutch and the tenses are used quite the same way. So when I’m translating in mij head , most of the time the outcome would be correct. We don’t have the ‘ have been etc’ in the first place 😂🎉
Bellissima spiegazione, non riesco a capire come mai questo video non abbia più "Mi piace", vale assolutamente la pena guardarlo almeno per chi parla l'inglese abbastanza bene (sono tedesco). Lo condivido, sperando che ottenga qualche pollice in su di più.
I wanted to say, that this concept of “the past doesn’t influence the present” has completely broken my American 🇺🇸 mind. 😂. I’m stuck in a deep philosophical hole of how my culture functions based on a simple grammar rule
It's always good to learn new things . All knowledge is contextual. This video puts it all together in a package that gives tenses and moods a context. This enables language learners and others to better achieve a level of Italian language. Complimenti !
Thank you for this clear explanation of the difference between tenses and moods. I learned Spanish many years ago, and I use the subjunctive (congiuntivo) and conditional a lot. I always thought of them as different tenses. Now I see the difference. Grazie!
Great! I know basic Italian and can make some simple, short conversations but lack grammar knowledge and vocabulary. It was a very good and clear way of explaining. Greetings from Slovenia.
Grazie mille per questo. I've no idea why so few teachers of Italian to English speakers explain what, for me, is fundamental. The verb table and what it consists of. Knowing what moods and tenses are helps so much. The other part I liked is comparing Italian tenses to English ones. I was always thinking ' It must be more complicated than simply using the Present tense '. Now I know that sometimes it is just as basic as that.
@~0:50 actually, the present tense is NOT the first tense that is always (or typically) learned/taught in "every" language. Your declaration is certainly correct for the vast majority of languages; and (as far as I know) for all Indo-European languages this is true. But some notable exceptions are certain Semitic languages (in the Afro-Asiatic family). In both Atabic & Amharic dictionaries you won't find the infinitive forms of verbs as an entry. To look up a verb one must search for the 3rd person (singular) past tense conjugation. And it is the past tense that is learned first. I realize & understand that this really has nothing to do with Italian. Although it is an interesting matter of fact that Amharic was the official working language of Ethiopia while Italy was attending to colonize it, and until the 1991 revolution, and it remains the primary language of the federal government. It is wise to avoid the use of absolutes in most contexts (words such as: all, every, none, always, never and so on). It is almost certain that there will be some exception in almost any context. You should at least realize that if you do choose to use absolutes, this will probably be taken as an invitation to correct you by anyone familiar with a specific exception.
Notice to foreigners studying Italian. Do not worry; when I was a student and the Italian teacher asked for a test, a massacre occurred with the grades. It's something you learn with practice by hanging out with people who speak correctly. Once you learn it, if you get it wrong you will realize that it sounds bad.
Me: "Ugh, do I really want to do Italian after learning all my Spanish tenses?" Italian: "You've got to be careful, you see we'd say 'la casa era grande e luminosa.'" Spanish: "La casa era grande y luminosa."
LOL! When you started speaking I almost clicked off of your video because I was looking for a native Italian speaker to explain some grammar. Wow, the Italian accent (which always sounds cool to Americans btw) is almost non-existent when you speak English. I figured you for a fellow Yankee. Very impressive and inspiring. Excellent material and well presented. 👍
Ciao Martina, prima di tutto, bel capo lavoro in questa puntata🥇 , hai fatto un bel riassunto dei diversi tempi verbali "in a nutshell (in poche parole)", qualche tempo fa avevo spiegato il congiuntivo con lo stesso esempio che hai usato: 'if I were you..." credo che questo faccia capire l'essenza del congiuntivo per un madrelingua inglese purtroppo non ci sono tanti esempi nell'inglese. (*) Mi è piaciuto molto la tua didattica, chiara e semplice 👍 (**) Complimenti per la tua pronuncia in inglese, devo dire che sentivo l'accento italiano solo quando parlarvi in italiano 🙂.
Ciao Faustino!! Grazie per il tuo bel commento, mi ha fatta arrossire! :) E hai proprio ragione, credo che spiegare il "concetto" del congiuntivo sia piuttosto difficile se non si ha niente su cui appoggiarsi in un'altra lingua!
Ciao, Can you explain to me how to use imperfectto congiuntivo I mean mettessi for the verb matter because it is the hardest one, but I still do not understand why and for what purpose the Italians use it. Thanks
i’m unable to get the download for the worksheets to work, do you have them together on a separate website?? im learning italian to move to italy with my nonno 😊
I have done Italian Beginners Course before.I do not understand the Grammar or anything else,Etc. I would say I got one or two out of ten.I shall be starting Italian again next month.I doubt if I get more than two.I have done Spanish,French and German.I would say I got one to two out of ten. Let’s see what happens when I start my Italian Course again next month .I can only do my best,but my best is not good enough.English is my home language,and I can fully understand it.
Martina, eccellentissima super video. For all of the conjugation charts I'm studying, I'm not finding these categories of words, I'll provide the examples: (Group 1) parcheggialo = park him/it mangiami = eat me attaccaci = attack us giudicala = judge her parcheggiarlo = to park him/it mangiarmi / mangiarti = to eat me or to eat you attaccarci = to attack us giudicarla = to judge her I don't think I would've discovered that these words exist if never I used the Google Translator. What is the name of these two groups they're called?
Hi Dylan! I think that the reason why you haven’t been able to find them anywhere is because they don’t have their own category! They are all belonging in the “pronouns” category, if you need a general label - however the ones in “group 1” are imperative tense (giving orders, which requires a pronoun - e.g. “lo” to be displaced from its original before-verb position, to be attached at the end of the imperative verb), the “group 2” instead are in the infinitive form (usually are combined with modal verbs such as dovere, potere, volere, or another conjugated verb - e.g. sono andata a parcheggiarlo in quella strada lì - which also require to displace the pronoun, but could also be “lo sono andata a parcheggiare” following the regular structure) this would require a longer explanation, but I hope this offers a good place to start!
Grazie mille!! I do have a question/request about passato prossimo. Many sources give different answers about when to use essere or avere (+verb), for example: hanno detto and sono detti/e. This is very confusing. Do you have any site or file that I can look at when I need to use Passato Prossimo?
I am planning to make a video about the passato prossimo because this is a point that confuses many students! But in terms of (free) resources, I often use the Mondadori for education website italianoperstranieri.mondadorieducation.it/passato-prossimo/ I hoe this is helpful!
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Notice to foreigners studying Italian. Do not worry; when I was a student and the Italian teacher asked for a test, a massacre occurred with the grades. It's something you learn with practice by hanging out with people who speak correctly. Once you learn it, if you get it wrong you will realize that it sounds bad.
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