Continue Learning Italian

By Michael San Filippo, About.com Guide to Italian Language

Continue learning Italian with in-depth information on verbs and linguistics. Use hand gestures to get your point across. Review parts of speech including nouns, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, articles, and interrogatives.

1. Hand Gestures
2. Linguistics
3. Italian Nouns
4. Italian Pronouns
5. Italian Verbs

6. Italian Adjectives
7. Italian Articles
8. Italian Prepositions
9. Italian Interrogatives

Hand Gestures

Italians use body language and hand gestures to punctuate an expression and give it a shading that the word or phrase itself lacks.

• Speaking Italian With Your Hands
• Italian Hand Gestures Index

Linguistics

Italian linguistics is the scientific study of the Italian language. Italian linquistics includes such topics as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

• Introduction to Italian Linguistics
• Italian Phonology
• Italian Morphology
• Italian Syntax
• Italian Semantics
• The Letter S in Italian

• Erre Moscia
• Double Italian Consonants
• You're In Italy, Speak Italian!
• Dante as Poet, Dante as Linguist
• All In The (Language) Family
• The Meaning of Sound

Italian Nouns

Nouns are words that describe a person, place, thing, animal or abstract idea.

• Nouns
• Plural Nouns

Italian Pronouns

Pronouns are those little words that make a big difference.

• Subject Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Direct Object Pronouns

• Indirect Object Pronouns
• Italian Pronoun Ne
• Combining Direct and Indirect Italian Pronouns

Italian Verbs

Essential information on Italian verb formation, mood, tenses, conjugation charts, and usage.

• 1001 Italian Verbs
• Lessons On Italian Verbs
• Table of Italian Verb Endings: Part One
• Table of Italian Verb Endings: Part Two
• First Conjugation Verbs
• Second Conjugation Verbs
• Third Conjugation Verbs

• Conjugate Italian Verbs Like A Native
• Indicative
• Subjunctive
• Conditional
• Imperative
• Compound Tenses

Italian Adjectives

An adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

• Adjectives
• Possessive Adjectives
• Bello e Quello
• Italian Adjective Order

Italian Articles

An article is a word that, combined with a noun, indicates the type of reference being made by the noun. The three main articles in the English language are the, an and a.

• Italian Definite Article
• Italian Indefinite Article
• Italian Partitive Article
• Use of Italian Definite Articles with Possessive Adjectives

Italian Prepositions

Prepositions links nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words in a sentence.

• Simple Prepositions
• Italian Preposition A
• Italian Preposition Da
• Italian Preposition Di

• Italian Preposition In
• Italian Prepositions Per, Su, Con, Fra, and Tra
• Italian Prepositional Articles

Italian Interrogatives

An interrogative word is used to ask a question. In Italian there are several ways to ask a question.

• Interrogatives
• Interrogative Pronouns
• Interrogative Adjectives

• Interrogative Adverbs
• Asking Questions in Italian
• Making Italian Verbs Interrogative