Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Lisetta and Alessio show us how they like to taste their new, freshly pressed olive oil. Since oil can be used uncooked to dress salads, or used as cooking oil, they call the uncooked oil olio crudo (raw oil).
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika shows us around her kitchen, the heart of the household. We can bet it's her favorite room of all!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela has her students practice conjugating a verb of movement in the passato prossimo (present perfect). There are plenty of details to watch out for: plural or singular, masculine or feminine, "to be" or "to have" as helping verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Nino Buonocore, a Neapolitan singer-songwriter, performs his love song, Scrivimi [Write to Me]. Buonocore wrote the song in 1990 and it has had tremendous success ever since.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us her children's cozy bedroom. You may notice that there is an emphasis on drawing and coloring. Italian students are graded on their drawings.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
From the heart of Tuscany, famous for its olive oil, Tuscans Lisetta and Alessio talk about how olive oil is made.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us about conjugating one of the past tenses, the passato prossimo, for action verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Ah, time. So much depends on your point of view.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We continue getting acquainted with Marika's apartment. This time she shows us the hall with its furnishings.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela takes us through the steps to construct the passato prossimo (present perfect) of verbs. Attenzione! Even though it looks similar to the English present perfect tense, the passato prossimo is used for actions completed at a specific time in the past, so in many cases it corresponds to the simple past in English, not the present perfect!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us the entryway of her apartment, from the intercom to the coat rack.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Modal verbs in Italian are potere (to be able to) volere (to want to) and dovere (to have to). Daniela explains how they work!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us the rules about using direct object pronouns. Don't be discouraged if you don't absorb it all at once. It takes plenty of practice, and plenty of trial and error. See first part: Marika spiega - Pronomi diretti
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika gives us an overview on how to use direct object pronouns, which take the place of direct objects when the object has already been referred to. Here's an example of this in English:
"Do you know the answer [direct object noun]?" "Yes I know it [direct object pronoun]."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela shows us how to conjugate reflexive verbs. It's not really any different than conjugating normal verbs, so don't worry!
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