The verb vocabolare and its first-person plural, vocaboliamo (the title of this program), do not exist, but the noun vocabolo does, and it means "term" or "word." This new series aims to help you enrich your vocabulary, focusing on words related to a certain topic. Perfect your Italian with Marika.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Who doesn't love pasta? Marika talks about this extremely popular Italian food: the history, where it's produced, and how to cook it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika divides the types of pasta into different categories and explains their characteristics, ranging from ingredients to shelf life, to cooking time, and consistency.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are different kinds of flour used to make pasta. "Flour" is a generic term but it's not always accurate. Marika explains it all.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There is an amazing variety of fresh and dried pasta shapes and sizes in Italy, referred to as formati (shapes and sizes). Their names have to do with their surface (smooth, rough, grooved), their size, expressed with a suffix, such as -one, -etto, -ino, etc, and/or what they resemble. Marika makes some sense of the vast assortment of pasta found in Italian supermarkets.
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