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Describing people & places. people & places

Today you learn to describe — a friend's personality, someone's face, your room, your whole city — and then to compare. The engine is adjective agreement: an adjective changes its ending to match the noun's gender and number (simpatico, simpatica, simpatici, simpatiche). Then comparatives let you say 'Milano è più grande di Bologna' (Milan is bigger than Bologna). 'Com'è la tua città?' becomes a question you can answer in three sentences.

Estimated time25 minutesGoalDescribe people and places with agreeing adjectives, and compare them
Day 18 · 4 focused lessons

Your four lessons today

  1. Personality & agreement

    Describe what someone is like — simpatico (nice), gentile (kind), timido (shy), allegro (cheerful), serio (serious) — and get the ending right.

    Start lesson 18–10 min
    Personality & agreement
  2. Appearance — essere and avere8–10 min
  3. Describing places8–10 min
  4. Comparatives8–10 min
India bridge

The soft 'gli' lives in Hindi already

Words like gentile, gli occhi, accogliente and migliore use the soft Italian 'gli' — the 'ly' in 'million', exactly Hindi 'ल्य'. Indian speakers own that tongue position from birth, so these tricky-looking words come out cleanly. The colour-after-the-body-part order also matches Hindi: 'काले बाल' (black hair) → 'capelli neri', same idea. The one English habit to drop: English adjectives don't change for gender ('she is nice'), but Italian ones do — say 'è simpatica' for a woman, not 'è simpatico'.

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