Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
While providing us with some Christmas vocabulary, Marika explains a bit about how Christmas works in Italy.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Adverbs davanti and di fronte have to do with a position in relation to something or someone. In contrast, avanti [forward], discussed in part 1, is primarily about motion.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika answers a question about some tricky adverbs of place: avanti, davanti, and difronte. She begins, in this segment, with avanti (forward), an adverb that is mostly used with verbs of motion, such as andare (to go) and venire (to come)
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika finishes up with two more expressions related to seafaring. The first one is very similar in meaning to an expression Marika mentioned in an earlier video. Perhaps you will recognize it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains some super common expressions Italians use all the time. After watching the video, try using them to describe a situation in your life.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika discusses two final expressions linked to the nautical world. One of the two is more of an Italian proverb, and a very important one.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here are some more expressions having to do with seafaring. In general, they are used figuratively, in a similar way to how they're used in English.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you pull your oars back in the boat, you stop rowing and sometimes this means you are giving up. Italians have an expression for this: Tirare i remi in barca. Marika explains this and other expressions using nautical terms.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italia's peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides, so the topic of the sea creeps into the conversation easily. Marika explains some expressions inspired by the sea and the nautical world.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
To take a break from the hustle and bustle of Rome, there is a place waiting for you, just 40 minutes away, where horses and cows graze in the wild, and where there is plenty of interesting flora and fauna to observe: The Sorbo Valley.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa gets curious about a yellow spot in the daytime sky. She goes to find out, and who does she meet up with at the observatory? Somebody very reminiscent of the astrophysicist, Margarita Hack. Check out our documentary about her.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Why is Armando wearing a pink suit? Pimpa does some research. She and Armando make up some words at the end of the episode.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa goes to the beach with Olivia the duck. Olivia gets lost but is helped by the shrimp Onin.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains about the risks of global warming, fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect and what we can do to lessen the damage being caused.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika talks about the difference between normal climactic events and extreme climactic events such as flooding, storms, and droughts.
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