TEST DI ITALIANO - Grammatica LIVE

[00:00:08]Uno prima.

[00:00:33]Let's see first what a woman would say and then we also understand why the English translation of this sentence will be yesterday I registered to the new course of Italian okay to the new Italian program and you are a woman talking.

[00:00:57]Hello in Oh, we don't see the top part. What do you mean, Carlos? You don't see the top part. Which part you don't see?

[00:01:09]Okay.

[00:01:15]Registered in the feminine. Remember guys, I I give you a quick explanation of something in italiano.

[00:01:28]In Italian, we have two type of adjectives. Okay? When it talk when we talk about gender and number, we have two options. We either have adjectives adjectives with four forms. Okay? There will be for example isto masculine singular masculine singular and then would be is masculine plural then it will be isa feminine singular and is feminine plural. This is option one adjectives with four forms. Okay, we also have adjectives with adjectives with two forms. Okay, these would be adjectives such as important.

[00:02:26]You see, whenever an adjectives end in e in the singular, it could be masculine or feminine singular and then it will be in the plural important.

[00:02:39]This could also be masculine or feminine plural. We have two options. Now, how do you know if an adjectives if an adjective behave as option one or as option two? You simply don't know. You can guess looking at the ending. Okay?

[00:02:58]For example, if you see is it ends in a it has to be of group one because you see in group two we don't have any form that ends in a. You get my point? Okay.

[00:03:11]In this case is isto is group one. Of course, that's why we have isa. Oh, actually let's keep this word file.

[00:03:19]Maybe I will do some more notes in the in for other exercises if you guys like it. Okay, why do we need to change the gender? Because this is a reflexive verb. Okay.

[00:03:43]This happens always with reflexive verbs. Whenever we have a reflexive verb in the past, we will use the verb to be as auxiliary. And every time we have the verb to be as auxiliary, we need to agree in gender and number. Okay.

[00:04:23]Okay. You could have a case of that never changes gender. You can. This is for example if you use the verb instead of now you're not using a reflexive verb anymore. You're just using a verb with a direct object.

[00:04:46]For example, I register Marco to the course. Now I have a direct object. That means that if I use a a past, I will not agree in gender and number because the auxiliary it will be a and not.

[00:05:03]Guys, if you want more explanation on this what I just said real quick, tell me in the chat because I can do it all again in a word file and I will do it broken down into very easy in in points that are very easy to understand. It's actually not super complicated. You just need to understand which one is the auxiliary verb. If the auxiliary verb is a, you never agree in gender and number.

[00:05:29]If the auxiliary verb is, you do agree in gender and number.

[00:05:36]Okay, let's do a little bit another explanation because this is really important for everyone for everybody.

[00:05:44]If the auxiliary verb is a you never agree in gender and number for example it doesn't matter if I'm a boy or a girl I will always say oh sorry sorry in the pasta it doesn't matter If I am a boy or a girl, I will always say I don't say y this is wrong. Why is it wrong? Because a is the auxiliary verb. Look at this.

[00:06:26]I'm using a to form the past. But if I have if the auxiliary verb is you agree.

[00:06:38]So for example, This is a movement to go out. There is no direct object. The auxiliary verb is here. And that means that you will have to agree in gender and number. If you are a lady, for example, I I am a woman.

[00:07:07]Okay. I will say if we are a group of women, group of women, we will say we are a group of women. You see why do you do this?

[00:07:25]Because that is the auxiliary. But if you have a ver doesn't matter even if you are a group of women, you will say no.

[00:07:35]You won't say no you only say so with look at this with you agree you agree this one which is called past participle this always changes but with a it never changes look if we use a so or no this is all a and the past participle is always the same look mato doesn't matter Okay, good.

[00:08:09]In the example here we have is versus if we use isto you never change because as auxiliary verb. Okay.

[00:08:35]But if you have is you have auxiliary verb. Okay.

[00:08:54]You see the difference? In the first case we have a as auxiliary verb and in the second case you have as auxiliary verb. Why do you have here a and why do you have here? Here you have a ver because you have a ver because there is a direct object. This is the rule. If you have a direct object you use a ver.

[00:09:20]Okay.

[00:09:23]Here you use use because it is reflexive.

[00:09:32]Okay?

[00:09:33]I put it here on top. Here you use because it's a reflexive. This is the rule guys. If you have a reflexive verb, you use always as auxiliary. If you have a direct object, you always use a as auxiliary verb.

[00:09:52]Good. I hope you guys enjoyed my explanation. Tell me in the chat if you enjoy the explanation or if this is boring. You guys me, okay? I do this for you. I'm here one hour just working for you because I want you to be clear with every exercise that we do. So for me, it's no problem to go deeper into explanations, but you tell me if that's what you want or if you want me to go faster. Okay.

[00:10:27]second Kelly Grande Kelly Stasia Joe Anna Bonnie Barb Lopez Leela Cindy This is a great explanation. Graci, can you put your notes in the comments?

[00:11:13]Okay, all Mary what I can do if this is okay with you I will upload the notes inside the school. So what we can do here when I complete the live show you know we have this amazing school community I will just upload it here in class notes okay queen in class notes where all the teachers upload the notes of our classes. I will also upload these ones and look at this for example Aliche guys this is like wow wow what is this look at the type of notes that our professors prepare this is 10 out of 10 I mean if you are an intermediate student you want to do the conditional look at this present.

[00:12:23]Okay.

[00:12:28]Okay.

[00:12:31]The perfect explanation. Thumbs up.

[00:12:34]Great explanation. Smith aspect aspect. The aspect.

[00:13:10]for italiano.

[00:13:33]The English translation of this sentence will be Mr. Rosi, wait for a moment. The director will take care of you immediately. Okay.

[00:13:50]It means it will receive you immediately. Subito is immediately.

[00:13:57]Subito is pretty fast. Immediately. And now if you look at the exercise you can notice that the person who's speaking doesn't say that will be the informal way to address someone but here he's saying so he's using the le form. This is a good indication.

[00:14:24]Yes, it's a formal imperative as Lisa Dun is saying, but the formal imperative is not asa if you are using the coesy form. Remember here we are trying to be polite. Okay, how do I know that I want to be polite? I know it from here from che.

[00:14:53]person who's speaking is using the kesy form. But actually in general every time you just say some you just call someone or something like that like you don't call someone by name.

[00:15:35]How do you create the courtesy form in the imperative?

[00:15:40]You use the conjunctiv. you will use the subjunctive in the present tense. Okay?

[00:15:48]That will make your imperative sound formal. Basically, instead of aspect, you will use aspect. All right, let's do it here real quick. Let's do it here because I I guess you guys like this format. We can say Mario.

[00:16:08]If we're talking to someone by first name, Mario.

[00:16:12]Let's do it bigger. Okay. Mario.

[00:16:25]Okay. This one is n like informal.

[00:16:31]In h where is it? Informal.

[00:16:38]This is informal. How do I know? How do I know inform that this is informal?

[00:16:43]Look, you have many indications. You have t, then you have Mario. So, you are calling someone by first name. And then you have this one in the imperative form. Like the verb is in the imperative form. But if you're talking about someone in in the purchase in inform if you are talking with someone formally then you would say senor like basically what you have in the in the sentence there.

[00:17:20]This is formal. Sometimes in the formal sense or in the formal sentences, you might find these pronouns with the capital L. This is more like a tra a traditional thing. It looks really good.

[00:17:34]Many people still do it and it's totally fine. It looks amazing. But nowadays like the young people, they just use the minuscola. They just use the small they just write la like this. But if you want to be traditional, you can write with a capital L. And it's uh better or you see the verb how it change you will use the present that's a subjective in the present tense it will be Okay, if this is too complicated, probably because you haven't done the subjunctive yet, then you can just forget about this one. You'll see in the future. Okay. But if you want to know the conjugations, that's something also I recommend to everyone. You can just go to Google and just say, okay, just write verbosion.

[00:18:56]Open open whatever website. Normally, there is this website that pops up. I don't know what website it is. I'm not promoting it. I I don't care. It's just whatever website. But they have here all the conjugations. You see, you can go here to basically you see that this is exactly what I wrote. Let's see if I was correct. I should be good, Carlo. 10 out of 10.

[00:19:29]Congratulations. You are Italian.

[00:19:31][laughter] Okay.

[00:19:37]for Mariana.

[00:20:08]We have a difficult one and then we have a nice game.

[00:20:13]I was using the present and used leeta.

[00:20:17]So I'm confused. Yes, Anna, you are using the present. But in this case, in this sentence here, you should not use the present because you're giving an order. Okay? So you use the present whenever you are talking about a fact. Okay?

[00:20:39]But if you're giving an order, you use something called imperative. Now for the imperative doesn't have a coesy form. Look, I I show you if you if you go back to aspect, we open the same website that we opened before. You go to the imperative. This is what you use when you give an order.

[00:21:02]You see this is the imperative. You don't have a first person for the imperative because you're not giving orders to yourself.

[00:21:10]You give orders to others and you have aspect and for the that's for you. And for le the third person you have aspect.

[00:21:21]Now, lane is also what you use if you want to be polite or if you're using the curtesy form, you know, basically if you want to be formal in Italian, you just switch from to to lay, you know.

[00:21:37]So, you should not use the present. Why?

[00:21:41]Because you are giving an order. When you give an order, a command, you are using the imperative. Got it? Okay.

[00:21:49]Fantastico.

[00:21:52]Okay.

[00:22:05]Difficult. This is difficult.

[00:22:17]Option A.

[00:22:24]Option A B.

[00:22:47]In English, this will be after I will have obtained my Italian citizenship, I will finally live and work in Europe.

[00:23:02]Okay? or I will be able to finally live and work in Europe. Listen to what we have here. We have two actions. Okay.

[00:23:23]to think a little bit. We have two actions.

[00:23:28]Okay. Action one will be obtaining Italian citizenship or whatever you write. I don't know if that's English, but anyway, I should stick to Italian probably.

[00:23:45]Option action two is be able or being able to live and work in Europe.

[00:23:57]Okay.

[00:24:00]Now, action two. Action two is in the future.

[00:24:13]Okay.

[00:24:16]Queen this this is all what we know. This is what we know from the exercise. We have two action two actions. Action one is obtaining Italian citizenship. Action two is being able to live and work in Europe. And we know that action two is in the future.

[00:24:35]Now what do we use for action one?

[00:24:39]Action one happens before action two.

[00:24:45]Okay. So the question is what tense do we have in Italian that is that is in the future but before another future action.

[00:25:07]But it happens before another future action.

[00:25:12]Which tense do we have? Tell me in the chat.

[00:25:27]What's the name? Tell me in the chat.

[00:25:29]Tell me in the chat.

[00:25:33]What's the name of this future tense?

[00:25:38]Granda.

[00:25:45]Yes.

[00:25:55]Brava compliment m compliment Tom compliment Marilyn. Okay. I learned this last night with Gabriela.

[00:26:13]Okay.

[00:26:24]Okay.

[00:26:35]Basically, using this type of tense combination will help you understand what happens first and what happens next. Ah, Gabriella and Senato. Oh, look at this.

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[00:34:05]That means if you are a advanced beginner or if you are an intermediate, don't go to the absolute beginner and start to speak Italian fast and so on because you will make the absolute beginners feel overwhelmed. Okay? If you are an intermediate and you want to go to absolute beginner because you want to review the fundamentals, you can absolutely 100% do that. But I ask you as a personal favor, please be an observer. Anyway, I offer so many group classes now, 19 per week and I keep on adding. So, probably next month we will have 22 23 per week. You pick the ones at your level. If you're not sure about what your level is, that's the reason why I give you a per a personal professor. You have your own professor that can guide you. They are all trained to explain how to approach the course.

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[00:35:48]Benn said today just in 40 minutes if you are an absolute beginner join Andrea Baji for his first group class for absolute beginner. Okay, he's nervous. I know he's nervous. Make his [clears throat] life easy, please.

[00:36:13]I ask only because I'm a first timer. Am I showing up in this chat? I've been trying to get on for an hour. Yes. Yes, Andrew. Yes, we see you. Uh, and you see all the friends, they they tell you they see you. Yes, you're there. I see you.

[00:36:31]Also, there will be, if you go to the full schedule, you'll see Nicolet and Felicia. Now they will also start to do cultural classes on Italian cities for absolute beginners and beginners and for intermediate and advanced you still have the amazing Filipo and Gabriel that do very complicated classes. Okay, let's continue.

[00:37:08]Let's continue with the grammar.

[00:37:12]Uno by bisto English translation. Have you seen Luca yesterday? No, I haven't seen him.

[00:37:43][clears throat] How do we say him in Italian? This topic is called direct pronouns. Okay.

[00:37:57]Queen pronomi directive direct pronouns.

[00:38:07]They are used to substitute objects that are already mentioned.

[00:38:19]Okay.

[00:38:21]Into we would use law because we are substituting a third person but we have after law we have the verb a in the first person singular.

[00:38:51]When we have O that H behaves as a vowel. So we will not use the full law but we will remove the O and we will add an apostrophe. Okay. This is something that we do a lot in Italian when we want to improve the when we want to make the pronunciation easier. We don't really like in Italian to have that many vowels all together.

[00:39:22]So normally if possible like for example we do it with the direct pronouns we do with the articles we will just remove one vowel and put an apostrophe. Okay.

[00:39:45]That's exactly what they said, but in Italian. Oh, there is the the World Cup today. Argentina World Cup. Okay. What?

[00:39:53]But then I get I guess Andrea didn't notice that because Andrea lives in Argentina. So, is he skipping the World Cup because of Peta Square? I feel bad now.

[00:40:06]Geez. I gave him a group class like exactly when the World Cup What time is the World Cup?

[00:40:27]Let me see what time is italia Argentina Aluna.

[00:40:41]NO, I'M skipping BA square for the World Cup. No, [screaming] no, no.

[00:40:52]Oh my god, Paula. I know. Pa. Pa, you are [clears throat] skipping so for the World Cup. You make you hurt my feelings. Pa, no. I have a question for you, Paula. Now, in the in the test, we have a question. I thought about you and it's coming out. It's coming out. Allora special question. I want you already guys. There is special question. Special special quiz now. Are you all ready? I want you all focus for a special quiz.

[00:41:35]This is for all people that love wine. I thought about you. Why? Because every day when we do group classes and so on, you always mention drinking wine. I created a weekly coffee chat for you guys and you told me this should not be weekly coffee chat. It should be weekly wine chat. So apparently you guys don't like coffee, just want wine.

[00:42:12]Let's see how experts are you when it comes to Italian wine. Who's expert about Italian wine in the chat? Esperto in chat.

[00:42:31]But I want to know who's expert of wine in the chat. Anna Annavino Diva diva.

[00:42:38]She's a diva of wine. Okay. Hello. I had a wine company for 10 years. I gave wine testing throughout the UK and led wine tours. Pa, let's see.

[00:42:56]Okay.

[00:42:58]Special question about wine.

[00:43:17]Banti ch a spum d baro which Italian wine is produced in the biggest quantity. We are not talking about price about quality about taste.

[00:43:37]We are only looking at quantity. So do you guys know which Italian wine is produced in the biggest quantity? Qual.

[00:43:47]Okay guys, this is still a Italian grammar class.

[00:43:52]So I want you to take home this word here.

[00:44:01]Let's do this.

[00:44:05]word singular.

[00:44:19]Oh, hold on.

[00:44:24]Okay.

[00:44:34]is a is an adjective of the second group. You remember we did it at the beginning of this live show. We have two groups of adjectives. Uh where where did we do it?

[00:44:45]Yeah, here we do. Here we did it. We have adjectives with four forms and adjectives with two forms. Ch is the second group. It has only two forms.

[00:44:58]What's the meaning of chel? Chel is a synonym is a synonym of famous famos.

[00:45:09]Okay. From the verb from the verb c means to celebrate to celebrate. So, it's a wine that has been celebrated a lot. So, it's famous. Okay.

[00:45:31]It's famous. Bring home this adjective.

[00:45:34]This will make you sound like a pro. Cuz only if you are a pro and only if you learn Italian with Pat Square, you know this. You will not learn this in a book.

[00:45:44]You will not learn this with a app.

[00:45:47]Okay? You learn this only with me and with all my amazing professors.

[00:45:53]Okay. Allora kamichi. I did a research.

[00:45:58]I did a research and the wine that has been produced with the biggest quantity is procco. Look at this. I provide here with the data. I checked it. In 2025, there were two 667 million barrels of procco produced in Italy. And then we have 75 million barrels of Keianti, 49 million barrels of AI and 14 million barrels of barolo. Of course, baro is more expensive also. Probably they don't do that big quantity, right? But procco is like the wine for celebrations. is the wine for parties, is the sparkling wine. You know, you just have fun. You have a birthday or you want to enjoy aivo with your friends.

[00:46:58]Let's see who knew it.

[00:47:18]Grandco.

[00:47:37]Remember guys that sometimes biggest quantity doesn't mean top quality or doesn't mean that is the best. Probably is just producing big quantities because you know it's the wine for parties and it's probably very easy to produce. I don't know. But barolo I guess it's more elite I guess. I'm not that expert of wine but I I like to play around with you [laughter] with this topic. Hey. And now we stay in one. We stay in the same area. We continue to talk about wine.

[00:48:17]Now there is another question still about wine but now it's grammar. Okay.

[00:48:33]A sheron that's a pronoun particle.

[00:48:50]We have two very important particles in Italian. They are she and they have special usage in Italian. That's why normally you learn them together and as a specific topic. N has one important use which is substituting a quantity that has already been mentioned. Okay.

[00:49:16]So or supporting a quantity. Okay. Like these type of questions answering quanto quant and so on. If you now mention the number in the answer then you will use [clears throat] volume. What does n means in English? It means of them.

[00:49:36]Okay. So how many bottles of wine do you want? That's a question. I want I want three of them. N becomes like of them.

[00:49:48]Okay. You don't need to say again. You could if you wanted you could say you could also just repeat in the answer but if you want to sound like a pro and you want to skip the repetition you will say okay. So how many bottles of wine do you want? I want three bottles or I want three of them. Okay.

[00:50:36]Mary, sorry.

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[00:53:12]Argentina Argentalian. So we we have to support Argentina. Sorry. I will support Argentina. [laughter] Let's go.

[00:53:32]I talk to all of you in uh inside our school. All right. Pleasure seeing you.

[00:53:38]Ciao Stefan. Ciao Carlos. Patricia.

[00:53:46][clears throat] Bye-bye.