Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
"The Frog Prince" is a famous fairy tale—nothing new! But what an opportunity to learn and practice the passato remoto! In everyday conversations this tense is rare in much of Italy, but when we're talking about "once upon a time..." it's a mainstay.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here are the last three signs of the Zodiac, with new expressions and new vocabulary. The signs Marika talks about are Capricorno (Capricorn), Acquario (Aquarius), and Pesci (Pisces).
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara is all excited about going home to Catania for a week of vacation, but do we really believe that he'll be allowed to leave?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela finishes showing us how to conjugate verbs that end in "ire," like "finire." Get the whole story!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francesca and Daniela have fun demonstrating the different conjugations of the verb mangiare (to eat) in context. You'll have fun learning them!
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Gualtiero's friends continue telling the story of the 1970s, when he finally opened his restaurant, on the via Bonvesin de la Riva in Milan. It was rough.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Just as in English, you would never say "I and you," there are rules in Italian, too for using these personal pronouns (io (I), tu (you-subject), me (me), te (you-object). Marika explains it all and gives you examples!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Neffa sings about how things are going to change. "Cambierà" (It will change) is a single from his 2006 album Alla fine della notte. Great opportunity to practice the future tense!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This episode comes to a close with a pizza party at sunset among Lara's colleagues. Certain people are able to see a beautiful green ray in that sunset, making the famous legend come true.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This time Marika talks about Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. There's lots of good vocabulary having to do with personality!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela makes it easy to learn how to conjugate verbs ending in "ire," such as dormire (to sleep).
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi recounts how he transformed some dark basement rooms in Milan into a modern style restaurant that eventually made history.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Piedmontese
See how Alessandra Obert creatively decorates a table for a country lunch. Her clear speech is easy to follow. Presented by uChef.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Alessio shows us how, now that we have the clefs, we can read music intuitively. And he explains why three different clefs are used in music.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara and Luca try to follow protocol, but when that doesn't work, they barge ahead with their investigation, and get into an extremely dangerous situation. Fortunately for everyone, Lara doesn't lose her cool...
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
In the previous two segments, both the masculine and feminine indefinite articles were introduced. In this segment, Daniela has her students supply the correct indefinite article for a series of nouns.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mothers Day is approaching. Four mothers (including our Marika!) give us their thoughts on what it means to be a mother.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains the next three signs of the zodiac, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. Learn plenty of adjectives that describe people's personalities.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Here we are at the last part of the story of this unique restaurant. Anna and Marika relax over coffee, and tease each other about being just a bit fuori (nuts).
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara is all excited about something she found out, but when she goes looking for Luca, she gets an unexpected and unpleasant surprise. Catching herself, she "gets over it" and the two of them start in on a late night search. All they need is a warrant.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
How does Eva's operation "Robin Hood" end up? Tune in to this last segment and find out!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Whether or not you take stock in astrology, Marika gives you plenty of new vocabulary for talking about personality, while describing the characteristics attributed to the first three signs of the zodiac: Aries, Taurus and Gemini.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna explains, in simple Italian, and step by step, her own personal recipe for a pasta dish: Farfalle Primavera. Farfalle is a type of pasta shaped like a farfalla (butterfly). Primavera is the season between winter and summer.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
After lots of searching, Gualtiero Marchesi finally finds a place that could work as the restaurant of his dreams.
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