A Te by Jovanotti. A beautiful song to learn Italian
This song is, in my opinion, the most beautiful love song of Jovanotti. His lyrics are very easy; listen to the song and read his lyrics, then take a look at the glossary to check your Italian: “A te”: A te che sei l’unica al mondo L’unica ragione per arrivare fino in fondo Ad ogni [...]
How to express the present continuous in Italian
When in English the present continuous expresses an action happens at the moment of speaking, we use in Italian the present tense of the verb stare + the gerund of the verb. The gerund is formed in Italian from the infinitive of the verb.
An example of irregularity for verbs in the present tense: “scegliere”
The verb scegliere (to choose) has a particular irregularity in its conjugation in present tense: I cannot say “io sceglio“, but I have to say “io scelgo”.It means that for the first singular person (io) and the third plural person (loro) there is a reversal of consonats. This is the correct conjugation in the present [...]
