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🛠️ Bonus Episode 04 – Passato Prossimo: Your Practice Power-Up! 🏋️‍♀️

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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  
00:00 Intro  
01:08 Recap – Forming Passato Prossimo  
01:37 Quick Tip – “And” vs “Is” in Italian  
03:01 Mixed Practice – *Essere* & *Avere*  
06:37 Formation of Past Participles  
10:02 Irregular Past Participles  
13:26 Conjugate *Avere* in Passato Prossimo  
13:59 *Avere* – Sample Sentences  
14:36 Conjugate *Essere* in Passato Prossimo  
15:58 *Essere* – Example Sentences  
17:34 “TTO” Family of Irregular Verbs  
19:45 “SO” Family of Irregular Verbs  
21:16 “RTO” Family of Irregular Verbs  
23:31 Transitivity & *Avere* or *Essere*  
25:30 Mini Quiz – Round 1 (*Avere* Sentences)  
27:06 Mini Quiz – Round 2 (*Essere* Sentences)  
28:00 Mini Quiz – Round 3 (Mixed *Essere* & *Avere*)  
29:02 Wrap Up

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