Dixi gets a bad case of the hiccups, but Tribo has a tried-and-true remedy. Attenzione! In Italian, hiccups appear in the singular: il singhiozzo!

Dixi meets Cumo, a flying piglet, in the cloudy sky. At first he worries, but then enjoys it.

Dixi is a sweet little flying elephant who faces his adventures with optimism and innocence. It's party time.

In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.

Here's one of the most famous fairy tales of all, "Cinderella." The Italian, "La Cenerentola" comes from the noun la cenere (ash, ashes, cinder). See how much you can understand without the English subtitles!

Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!

There's plenty of new vocabulary in the well-known story of "Sleeping Beauty". And since there are both a king and a queen, and twelve fairies, many verbs are in the third person plural of the passato remoto! Make the most of it!

Many of us know how this story ends. That's why it will be easy to understand. And there are still plenty of verbs to learn in the passato remoto!

"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.

A cartoon in which two aquarium fish worry about the kids of the house who are going on a school trip.

Somehow Pippo and Palla get kidnapped and they begin to worry about ending up in a can!

The parents are arguing and Palla worries that it will end in divorce, and this could mean being flushed down the toilet. Luckily, the parents patch things up.

This time our little Minivip is transformed into an antenna technician, when trying to help a lady in distress. He also gets taken for a garden dwarf!

Summer heat brings on unnerved parents, a power failure, chaos, and amused fish.

This time Minivip meets up with an opera singer/pianist, who goes a just little too far.