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In Your call is important to us, we begin looking at l’imperativo – one of the four formal verbal moods in Italian. The imperative is used to issue direct commands: you tell someone to do (or not to do) something. When you address someone formally in Italian, you use the third-person subjunctive, and that’s a rather indirect method. In this episode, we’re looking at the ‘true’ imperative, for first and second person. Let’s listen as Antonella phones home from the Villa Borghese in Italy …

PODCAST LINK: Episode 8

In Someone’s in the kitchen with Pulcinella, we conclude our discussion of the subjunctive with a summary of all the rules. Remember the WHEIRDO verbs? We’ll review all the tenses of the subjunctive: the presente, passato, imperfetto, and trapassato and contrast these with the use of the formal imperative.

Pulcinella will get down with the imperative as he cooks up a delicious spaghetti frittata! Gnam, gnam, gnam. Let’s listen …

PODCAST LINK: Episode 7