🎙 Podcast Episode Four: Impariamo l’italiano piano piano - Un impegno quotidiano
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In this episode, we take our first deep dive into the passato prossimo, the Italian past tense used for completed actions. Whether you’re still a novice in the realm of italian past tenses or if you've been practicing for a while, this tense helps you share past experiences with clarity and precision.
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🌟 Highlights:
✔️ What makes passato prossimo different from imperfetto? A snapshot vs. a looping video!
✔️ How to form passato prossimo using avere + the past participle.
✔️ Practical examples drawn from Mariella’s story as she takes the first steps toward a life-changing discovery.
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🎯 Practice Makes Perfect:
Listen, pause, and say the Italian before I do! With structured exercises, you’ll get hands-on experience forming sentences and internalizing this key tense. Plus, an assignment awaits to help you actively mettere in pratica (put into practice) what you've learned.
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🎧 Take it slow, embrace the process, and immerse yourself in Italian—piano piano!
⏳ CHAPTERS Â
0:00 Passato Prossimo Examples
6:40 Examples with Italian translation
7:38 Episode intro
11:16 Formation of passato prossimo
12:24 Conjugation of avere
17:02 Formation of the participio passato
19:59 Avere or essere?
21:22 Vocabulary for practice exercise
22:10 Practice putting it all together
26:46 Assignment explained
30:20 First playback of Part 3
33:26 Second playback of part 3
35:42 Wrap up
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