I'm slowly learning italian for some months for now, but I will type this message in english for the sake of simplicity.

How italians speak daily regarding verbal conjugation in informal situations, like meeting someone or going to a club or party? Is there some sort of "language hack" regarding few used or even unused verbal tenses and moods? Or are they always properly used?
Not that they are impossible to learn. In fact, italian is very close to my native language (portuguese), but I feel I'm struggling to learn some things which I don't need to learn, like trapassato Remoto or Trapassato Prossimo.
For example, in the "written" Brazilian Portuguese, a verb can have more or less 60 forms in all tenses and moods, but when it comes to informal situations and "spoken" portuguese, there are a lot of rules which are not used, like:
* We NEVER, under any circumstance, use the second person: We refer to the second person (Tu, Voi) as the third person (Lei/Lui, Loro);
* The imperative form is exchanged for the indicative present form in almost all situations;
* All the future tenses are always used in the infinitive form;
* The "Pretérito Mais-que-perfeito" ("Trapassato Prossimo") is unused, except in novels and books.
Given the examples, you only need to learn around 15 of the 60~64 forms to live and talk without any problem in Brazil. This can speed up ma lot of the learning process, keeping in mind that I don't want to be a Italian language expert nor study italian literature. I just want to talk with natives and make friends!
