Italian Verbs For Dummies
Chapter One
Jumping into Action with Italian Verbs
In This Chapter
* Running through the breakdown of Italian verbs
* Factoring pronouns into the verb picture
* Classifying verb categories by tense and mood
Welcome to the world of Italian verbs! I recently noticed, while reading an Italian children's story to my young daughter, that we expose young people at a very early age to all the verbs and tenses of a language. Evidently, when we learn a language naturally, from a young age, we don't learn to speak and master one tense and then move to another and another and so on; rather, we learn all the tenses together. Alas, you, the reader, are probably not a youngster. Therefore, I generally throw one tense at a time at you, but you should note that in authentic language construction, you may very well have several tenses going on at the same time.
One of the goals of this book is to help you feel at ease in all the tenses and constructions (individually and collectively) so that you can pass easily from one to the other wit ... read full excerpt from Italian Verbs For Dummies ebook
