Songs are a great way to learn Italian! Listening to a song and singing along allows us to practice Italian pronunciation while committing to memory new vocabulary through repetition. Italian songs are also a window into Italian culture. Song after song you will familiarize yourself with famous Italian singers and songwriters from the last 40 years and their greatest hits, songs that virtually all Italians know.
Listen to the song by clicking on the YouTube video and use the text below to read and sing along. Download the printable PDF lesson for a side-by-side translation and a mini lessons. Enjoy!
October is Italian American Heritage month. This songs speaks of those who left behind their native towns in search of a better future. Not surprisingly, the song uses mostly verbs in the future tense.
How do you say: I like, you like, he likes, she likes… in Italian?
The verb PIACERE (to like) may seem a bit confusing at first, but hopefully you will have a better understanding on how to use it after this short lesson based on the song by Dente.
The lesson includes: a listening comprehension exercise, the text of the song with the English translation side by side, and a grammar explanation of how the verb PIACERE is used in Italian.
This 2011 song by the Italian group MODà is perfect for practicing listening comprehension and for learning the colors in Italian. The downloadable PDF lesson contains the side by side translation and two practice exercises.
In Italian there are two verbs that translate the English verb To Know, sapere (to know something or to know how to do something) and conoscere (to know someone, to be acquainted with someone or some place). With this blog post, we will focus on the uses and meanings of the verb sapere in the present tense.
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This 2011 song by the Italian group MODà is perfect for practicing listening comprehension and for learning the colors in Italian. The downloadable PDF lesson contains the side by side translation and two practice exercises.
Se ti è piaciuta questa canzone, scarica la lezione per fare un po' più di pratica!
If you liked this song, download the lesson to practice a bit more!
Who is Vasco Rossi? He is an Italian musician with a distinctive "rocking" style. He has been famous since the late 70s and is loved by the older and the newer generations alike.
Albachiara (1979) is one of his most famous songs. It is a good song for learning or reviewing the Italian present tense of regular verbs, including common Italian reflexive verbs, and some useful vocabulary to talk about the different parts of a day, such as alba (dawn) and tramonto (sunset), mattina (morning) and sera (evening).
Listen to the song while reading the text below and sing along! See if you can figure out the meaning of words you don't know.
Download the free, printable PDF lesson and listen again, this time following the text of the song with the blanks and filling in the blanks as you listen. The PDF also includes vocabulary lists, grammar explanations, and practice exercises.
Buon ascolto e buono studio!
DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF LESSON: LEARN ITALIAN PRESENT TENSE WITH A SONG BY VASCO ROSSI
Respiri piano per non far rumore
ti addormenti di sera
ti risvegli con il sole
sei chiara come un'alba
sei fresca come l'aria.
Diventi rossa se qualcuno ti guarda
e sei fantastica quando sei assorta
nei tuoi problemi
nei tuoi pensieri.
Ti vesti svogliatamente
non metti mai niente
che possa attirare attenzione
un particolare
solo per farti guardare.
Respiri piano per non far rumore
ti addormenti di sera
ti risvegli con il sole
sei chiara come un'alba
sei fresca come l'aria.
Diventi rossa se qualcuno ti guarda
e sei fantastica
quando sei assorta
nei tuoi problemi
nei tuoi pensieri.
Ti vesti svogliatamente J
non metti mai niente
che possa attirare attenzione
un particolare
solo per farti guardare.
E con la faccia pulita
cammini per strada mangiando una
mela coi libri di scuola
ti piace studiare
non te ne devi vergognare
E quando guardi con quegli occhi grandi
forse un po' troppo sinceri, sinceri
si vede quello che pensi,
quello che sogni....
Qualche volta fai pensieri strani
con una mano, una mano, ti sfiori,
tu sola dentro la stanza
e tutto il mondo fuori
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First, practice some listening comprehension; then, review some irregular participles, the future tense of ESSERE and some idiomatic expressions with this catchy song by Malika Ayane. Download the printable PDF lesson for the complete text with translation and for grammar exercises.