This post may be dull to most people... I am pretty unlucky when it comes to Italian class. I was unable to be in the Polimi Italian class last semester, due to administrative difficulties. Those got worked out, so I was supposed to be taking it this semester, but I am here in the US for the first few weeks of the class. I went to the first session of the class, then got on a plane the next day! While I am here in the US, there's a tutorial run at MIT once a week that is for people who have taken Italian 1 and want to practice more. I went last week, and it was pretty cool. We chatted a little (which is exactly the sort of practice I need) and watched a video in Italian, then reviewed the script and discussed it a bit. It was a pretty good experience. Unfortunately, this week there is no class since it's spring break... But I will get to go one more time next week. We asked for homework, and Walter (the prof) suggested doing some studying on the simple future tense. I spent some time yesterday and today doing some research into the simple future and writing up a short sheet on it, including a few exercises I found on about.com (a surprisingly good resource for basic language study) and a paragraph set in the simple future. This technical stuff is not so hard for me... it's the speaking I fear!
Anyway, the future tense is relatively simple. Not as simple as the basic past tense, but hey, what can you do. It's a tense where you create a stem and add endings. The stem typically looks like the original verb minus the trailing -e. So for correre, correr-. Then you tack on the endings:
Io correrò
Tu correrai
Lei/Lui correrà
Noi correremo
Voi correrete
Loro correranno
All the irregularities come in forming stems, so it could be a lot worse...
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