Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
If you know the rules regarding masculine and feminine articles, word endings, and plurals in Italian, you'll get it right most of the time. But there are some important exceptions which Daniela addresses in this lesson. They just have to get memorized!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
It can be challenging for non-native Italian speakers to really understand the difference between these three common words: bello (beautiful, nice, pretty), buono (good) and bene (well, fine). In this first part of three, Daniela explains the difference between bello and buono.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela goes into more detail about the difference between bello (beautiful) and buono (good) and clears up any doubts you may have.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This lesson is about bene (well, fine). An important difference between bene and bello (beautiful) and buono (good) is that it's an adverb, and therefore doesn't have to agree with nouns. It always stays the same.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us the difference between two questions: "Where are you from?" and "Where do you live?" She goes on to explain that, depending on whether we're talking about cities and towns, or countries, regions, and continents, the preposition in the response will change. Don't miss this important lesson!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It's important in speaking Italian, to address people using the right form of "you." Tu (you) is for people you know, and Lei (you) is for people you don't know, or people you address with respect. Daniela explains how to use these forms.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you're getting to know someone, you ask them their name and where they're from. Join Daniela's class as her students ask their first questions in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela takes us through the conjugation of verbs ending in "ere," and explains how easy it can be if we remember some simple rules.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It's important to know how to talk about what you like and what you don't like. Daniela explains how in this lesson, and if you remember that when you like something, it pleases you, you'll get it!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela shows us how to ask people if they like something. And don't forget: the thing you like is the subject of the sentence and will govern the conjugation of the verb "piacere."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela teaches us how to talk about liking something in each of the persons, using the verb piacere (to please, to be pleasing). Don't miss this very important lesson! And don't forget that spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto. Spago means string, so spaghetti are little strands of string! Italians will use the plural when talking about spaghetti.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela teaches us something very important! When you have two verbs in the infinitive, one after another, they get connected by the preposition "a" (to). Most of the time one of those verbs is andare (to go). She gives us some examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
What are the words we use in Italian to talk about regular actions? Daniela takes you through them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela explains some very important rules about conjugating verbs. There are three types of endings. "are," "ire," and "ere."
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