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- Ways to practise French conversation, and the gap each one fills.
- Ways to practise Spanish conversation, and the gap each one fills.
- Parla or a language exchange: who owes whom a reply.
- Where German conversation stalls, and the kind of tool for each place.
- What language apps cost: the shapes a bill can take.
- Is Parla worth 99 euro a year?
- Parla or a course app: which gap are you filling.
- Parla or a drill app: name what you are missing, then pick what supplies it.
- Parla or a tutor.
- Parla or an AI chatbot: can you practise a language with a general assistant.
- Ways to practise Italian conversation, and the gap each one fills.
- What Parla is, and how a companion on Telegram actually works.
- What a streak counts, and what daily contact counts instead.
- “Ich bin gegangen” not “ich habe gegangen”: which verbs take sein in the past.
- “In den Park” or “in dem Park”: the prepositions that take two cases.
- “Mir ist kalt” not “ich bin kalt”: the sentences where you are not the subject.
- “Nicht” or “kein”: which word says no, and where you put it.
- “Seit zwei Jahren” or “vor zwei Jahren”: how long, and how long ago.
- “Wenn” or “als”: which “when” a German sentence wants.
- “C’è” or “ci sono”: the verb that agrees with whatever comes after it.
- “Cerco di” or “provo a”: the preposition belongs to the verb, not to the meaning.
- “Ci” or “ne”: the two small words that stand in for a whole phrase.
- “Era” or “è stato”: how to describe the past without telling a story.
- “Glielo” not “gli lo”: two pronouns in a row, in the right order.
- “Penso che sia” or “penso che è”: when Italian wants the congiuntivo.
- “Sono andato” or “ho andato”: which auxiliary a verb takes in the past.
- “Sto bene” or “sono buono”: good, well, and the verb in between.
- Five ways to practise a language when nobody is around to talk to.
- Practising Italian conversation alone, and what the alone part costs.
- “A Roma” or “in Italia”: which preposition a place takes.
- “Amici” not “amichi”: why the h comes and goes in Italian plurals.
- “Da due anni” or “per due anni”: how long you have been doing something.
- “Ho mangiata” or “ho mangiato”: when the past participle agrees, and when it does not.
- “Ho saputo” or “sapevo”: the verbs that change meaning when you change the tense.
- “Il” or “lo”: the article that changes in front of s, z and gn.
- “Mi piace” or “mi piacciono”: the verb that works backwards.
- “Mia sorella” or “la mia sorella”: the article that disappears in front of family.
- A Tuesday at the Mercato di Mezzo.
- Why you forget a language, and the ten minutes that stop it.
- “Molto” or “molti”: the agreement mistake every intermediate makes.
Giulia
Bologna
la giornata sta volando, non so neanche io dove. tu che fai di bello?
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Ways to practise French conversation, and the gap each one fills.
Practising conversation
Ways to practise Spanish conversation, and the gap each one fills.
Practising conversation
Parla or a language exchange: who owes whom a reply.
Choosing a language app
Where German conversation stalls, and the kind of tool for each place.
Practising conversation
What language apps cost: the shapes a bill can take.
Choosing a language app
Is Parla worth 99 euro a year?
Choosing a language app
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