Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues explaining how to use adjectives in Italian. This time she focuses on so-called neutral adjectives.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Nek sings a simple song about how people are made to love one another, despite everything. The song came in second at the Sanremo Festival.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Annalisa's "Una Finestra tra le Stelle" [A Window Among the Stars] was one of the top songs at the 2015 Sanremo Festival. The video was filmed at a famed Veneto villa, Villa Mosconi Bertani, where Valpolicella wine is produced.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
The important theme for today is "adjectives." In this first part, Daniela will teach you about "positive" adjectives. Find out what she means by that!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Gianni is doing some yard work, and shares his thoughts about how plants go wild, or take over when they're not kept in check.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Biagio Antonacci wrote the song "Vivimi" for Laura Pausini in 2004. "Vivimi" is tricky to translate, as it can mean "share life with me" or "experience me" or "live me."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela has her students do some exercises to make sure they've understood the use of articles with possessive adjectives. You'll see that being part of family or not makes quite a difference, as does being just one or more than one!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela explains a very important exception to the rule about possessive adjectives. Don't miss out!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gianni takes a cigarette break from doing some yard work, and tells us something about himself. Like many other European smokers, he rolls his own cigarettes to save money.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues to address the very sticky subject of possessive adjectives, and explains some very important rules. Little by little, you'll get it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
After having covered the possessive adjectives in the masculine and feminine singular, Daniela goes on to explain how the masculine plural works.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
This is the beginning of a very important series of lessons because possessive pronouns or adjectives work a little differently in Italian. You need to add an article before the possessive pronoun. Daniela will explain it all.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This clip is from the 2012 organ donating campaign by Pubblicità Progresso The music is from Tu che sei parte di me by Pacifico, featuring Christina Marocco. Visit: http://www.doniamo.org
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this final video on colors as adjectives, Daniela's students practice using all three types (static, positive and neutral) in sentences. As you'll see, it can be tough putting all the pieces together, but little by little, you'll get it!
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