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Building Structures in Italian - Structure 5

Learn to talk about what was happening, and what used to happen with Structure 5.
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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! 😊
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Master the imperfect tense and speak about the past confidently!

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Building Structures in Italian - Structure 5

Discover how to talk about the past in Italian with Structure 5!

This course focuses on the imperfect tense, allowing you to describe habitual actions, set the scene in stories, and share details about the past with ease.

Through fun and engaging lessons, you’ll learn to form sentences that flow naturally in conversation.

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