After you have filled your shopping cart, it's time to go to the checkout counter. Marika describes the different registers and the various ways to pay.

Marika provides the terminology you'll need if you shop online using an Italian website.

Who doesn't love pasta? Marika talks about this extremely popular Italian food: the history, where it's produced, and how to cook it.

Marika divides the types of pasta into different categories and explains their characteristics, ranging from ingredients to shelf life, to cooking time, and consistency.

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.

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.

Marika explains some terms related to the world of economics. In this first part, we learn terms like "demand" and "supply," as well as concepts such as "surplus" and "deficit."

In this second part, Marika teaches us more terms related to the world of economics. This time she provides a text that encompasses the words learned so far on this important topic.

In this first part dedicated to finance, we begin to familiarize ourselves with terms related to this topic. We will see that in Italian financial language, there are also some Anglicisms present.

In this video, we explore the most common terms related to international politics and relations between nations. Words like "diplomacy," "treaty," "sovereignty," and "alliance" will be explained with practical examples to help you easily incorporate them into your Italian conversations.

In this video, you'll discover terms such as conflitto armato, crisi umanitaria, embargo, and minaccia nucleare, to name a few. These will help you better understand international politics.

In this final part about the vocabulary dedicated to international politics, Marika provides two texts that give context to all the previously discussed words. She takes the opportunity of sending us all a message of peace and hope.

Luca Zingaretti, known for his playing Salvo Montalbano in the TV series based on Camilleri's detective novels, makes an appeal to prevent drilling in the Mediterranean. The World Wildlife Fund message was prepared for the 2016 referendum. Voters chose to ban drilling.

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