Ciao e benvenuto 😊🇮🇹
This is the fifth course in the Building Structures in Italian series. We've learnt four different structures so far, enabling us to talk about the past, the present and how to use infinitive carriers to form useful questions and statements. If you haven't enrolled on the first course yet, you can do so here: Building Structures in Italian - Structure 1.
In this fifth structure, we're going to be looking at a new tense that will enable us to talk about the past. We've already had one way to talk about the past when we learnt about the present perfect tense, but in this course, we're looking at the imperfect tense.
The imperfect tense is a very useful past tense. Whilst the present perfect tense allows us to talk about or ask about what happened at a specific point in time, the imperfect tense lets us talk about what was happening or what used to happen.
We're going to be looking at how to conjugate verbs into the imperfect tense, how to use it with the fifth structure and how to turn it negative, just like we do with other structures. Now that we've amassed quite a few structures, though, we can start to put them together to really improve our communication proficiency in Italian. We're going to look at how we can combine Structure 5 with other structures we've been learning.
As always, all the lessons in this course have been broken down into three-minute chunks. That way, you can listen to one three-minute lesson every day without having to eat into your schedule. Obviously, you can watch more than one lesson per day, if you wish, but I would recommend you stop before you want to.
If you get to the end of a lesson and you're feeling exhausted, then you've gone too far. You want to stop whilst your head still feels fresh enough to focus. By doing this, learning Italian will never become something that you get bored with, and you'll be much more likely to carry on.
So, let's start learning all about Structure 5 in Italian. I hope you enjoy...
🇮🇹 Allora, cominciamo! | So, let's begin! 😊
Get three structures in one bundle
You can save money if you buy three structures courses together in one bundle
Full curriculum (watch the first few lessons for free)
Building Structures 6, 3 Minute Italian and Grammar courses
As well as the Building Structures in Italian series, I've created another series called 3 Minute Italian
Once you have completed this course, if you would like to learn more Italian using the same method, you can find the next courses below:
3 Minute Languages series
3 Minute French - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7 | Course 8 | Course 9 | Course 10 | Course 11 | Course 12 | Course 13 | Course 14 | Course 15 | Course 16
3 Minute Spanish - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7
3 Minute Italian - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6 | Course 7
3 Minute German - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4 | Course 5 | Course 6
3 Minute Portuguese - Course 1 | Course 2 | Course 3 | Course 4
Building Structures series
Building Structures in French - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5 | Structure 6 | Structure 7 | Structure 8 | Structure 9
Building Structures in Spanish - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5
Building Structures in Italian - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4 | Structure 5
Building Structures in German - Structure 1 | Structure 2 | Structure 3 | Structure 4
Building Structures in Portuguese - Structure 1
Quick Guides series
French - Verbs 1
Spanish - Verbs 1
German - Verbs 1
Italian - Verbs 1
Portuguese - Verbs 1
Grammar courses
Essential French grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect
Essential Spanish grammar - Future | Conditional | Imperfect
English courses
Maths courses
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Further learning material
You can find plenty of articles and YouTube videos I've created to help you with your language learning. Find them all here:
YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_W8zw-DxvfU0lF_ojIm2mA
Blog: https://www.3minute.club/blog
I hope you enjoy :-)
Happy learning!
Kieran