Advertisement The number of verb tenses in Italian can be overwhelming to language learners. Italian has a total of 21 tenses (compared to 12 tenses in English) across seven moods (indicative, ...

Verbs are words involving doing or being, easy to recognise in English because you can put "to" in front of them - "to live, to be, to speak, to pay, to have". In Italian, verb endings are very ...

The Italian language is under assault from a growing tide of English words, the abandoning of verb tenses and a shrinking vocabulary, and could be driven to extinction altogether, the head of the ...

If you can't quite remember your verb tables from school or want to improve your conversational skills on holiday, BBC Languages have just the thing with four new-edition Grammar books in French, ...

Editor’s Note: Silvia Marchetti is a Rome-based freelance reporter and writer. She covers finance, economics, travel and culture for a wide range of media. Silvia has a master degree in journalism, ...