Welcome to my first lesson! You have no idea how excited I am to start this adventure and I hope you'll like everything I will post.
I don't know any of you and I don't know if you ever had an Italian lesson before today or which part of the world you're from, I just know that if you're here now, it means that you like it, or maybe you're going to move there or you're just curious.
Without curiosity nothing would exist, right?
When I first joined the Russian course I had no idea how the language sounded like, I was just wondering 'could I learn such a different language?'. When the rest of my class was describing how Russian literature has been so inspiring for them I was actually thinking how good Anastasia was and realising for the first time that Anya was the short name for Anastasia.
Then, the fact that you want to learn this fantastic language really cheers me up, especially now that languages are slowly disappearing and we shouldn't allow this to happen.

Remember that learning is easy if you don't take it too seriously. Have fun!

Essere e avere. They're going to be your two new friends.
Let's start by saying what they are: they are infinitive, not conjugated, and they both end with the suffix -ere. In Italian suffixes are quite important because they will help you with conjugating a verb and there are three of them: 
- First conjugation -are
- Second conjugation -ere
- Third conjugation -ire

However I already have to warn you: Italian verbs and grammar are often irregular and we can already see it from our very first steps. In fact, both verbs that we are going to look at today are irregular.

ESSERE (to be)

• ​Io sono = I am
• Tu sei = you (singular) are
• Lui / Lei è = he / she is
• Noi siamo = we are
• Voi siete = you (plural) are
• Loro sono = they are