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🎧 Bonus Episode 04 – Passato Prossimo: Your Practice Power-Up! 🏋️‍♀️ – To Reinforce Episodes 04 and 05

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It’s time to roll up your sleeves and flex those Italian grammar muscles! In this bonus episode, we dive deep into the passato prossimo with a full practice session designed to help you recognize regular and irregular past participles, choose the right auxiliary verb, and build confidence one sentence at a time.

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🌟 Highlights:
✔️ Quick reviews of auxiliary verbs, participle endings, and essential grammar tips
✔️ Spotlight on irregular verb families: the dramatic -tto, the slick -so, and the refined -rto
✔️ Full conjugations and examples with avere and essere as main verbs
✔️ Three rounds of practice: transitive (avere), intransitive (essere), and a final mixed challenge
✔️ Bonus sayings, humor, and a link to an interactive quiz to reinforce what you’ve learned

📜 The full transcript (with vocabulary lists, grammar notes, and contextual stories) is available at https://www.welearnitalianstepbystep.com

🎯 Practice with Purpose:
This is your palestra personale—your grammar gym! Listen, respond out loud, and test yourself with real-time recall and sentence formation. And don’t worry—mistakes aren’t just okay, they’re proof you’re growing.

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🎧 Let’s keep building your Italian skills—piano piano—as we prepare to tackle reflexive verbs and the verbs of movement and change in upcoming episodes!

⏳ CHAPTERS  

0:00 Intro
4:53 Recap Forming Passato Prossimo
5:22 Quick Tip About And & Is
6:46 Mixed Practice Essere & Avere
10:22 Formation Of Past Participles
13:47 Irregular Past Participles
17:11 Conjugate Avere In Passato Prossimo
17:44 Avere Sample Sentences
18:21 Conjugate Essere In Passato Prossimo
19:43 Essere Example Sentences
21:19 TTO Family Of Irregular Verbs
23:30 SO Family Of Irregular Verbs
25:01 RTO Family Of Irregular Verbs
27:16 Transitivity & Avere Or Essere
29:15 Mini Quiz Round 1 - Avere Sentences
30:51 Round 2 - Essere Sentences
31:45 Round 3 - Mixed Sentences Essere & Avere
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Never Too Late to Learn
A brief reflection inspired by Bill Monty’s Guide for Getting Older and his episode about Dame Patricia Routledge who, at 96, decided to learn Italian so she could sing an Italian opera. A beautiful reminder that it’s never too late to learn something new, pursue a passion, or follow a dream.

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