Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale, "The Ugly Duckling", is presented in Italian. These fairy tales are so familiar that they allow us to fully concentrate on the words and spare us the worry of not understanding what's happening in the story.

The Ugly Duckling realizes that he isn't so ugly after all.

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" is translated as "La sirenetta" in Italian. The Italian term sirena covers both mermaids (part fish) and sirens (part bird).

"The Little Mermaid" concludes with a happy ending if you're a 19th century poet, as Andersen was. The vocabulary review focuses on verbs in the passato remoto.

In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

Kindness triumphs over looks in this tale of love. The Beast does, however, turn into a handsome Prince.
Practice some passato remoto verbs in the vocabulary review!

The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with some fun changes in Italian. The wicked queen's rhyme for the mirror is different, and when one of the dwarfs beholds Snow White, he exclaims, "Mamma mia."

The vocabulary review is dedicated to passato remoto verbs in the third person singular!

The vain queen's wickedness has its limits.

In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.

Noemi Bossolo, known professionally as Sylia, sings the song that Lucio Battisti made famous. The lyrics to the song were written by Mogol, a frequent collaborator of Battisti, Celentano, and other artists.

Pupia.Tv – The Auction – Referendum commercial Public Water. On June 12th and 13th vote 2 Yesses against the privatization of water. The ad was produced by the commitee for public water of Velletri. Directed and edited by Luca D’Annibale. Idea and script by Astrid Lima. General organization – Annalisa Marroni.

A delightful television commercial with Christian De Sica, for “Parmacotto” ham. De Sica tries to charm a beautiful customer, but his wife shows up and ruins their flirtation.

Elisabetta Canalis, Italian TV hostess par excellence, appears as an inexperienced taxi driver. She asks the police if she can call them if she gets into difficulty, seeing as how she has an economical cellphone plan.