Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
What are the words we use in Italian to talk about regular actions? Daniela takes you through them.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Double letters are taken very seriously in Italian, so pay careful attention as Marika shows us how they work. You'll see why they're so important!
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika explains some more rules for pronouncing "C" and "G."
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Once you know the rules, pronouncing Italian words correctly is not so hard. Some consonants change their pronunciation depending on what vowel follows them. Marika helps you get started.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Often, when making a phone reservation for a restaurant, theatre, or museum, you'll be asked to spell your name. Marika gives us an example of how it's done in Italian.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
You can't learn a language without knowing its alphabet. Here's Marika to teach you the Italian one. Pay special attention when she gets to J! It's one of the letters that wasn't in the original alphabet of 21 letters.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It's important in speaking Italian, to address people using the right form of "you." Tu (you) is for people you know, and Lei (you) is for people you don't know, or people you address with respect. Daniela explains how to use these forms.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us the difference between two questions: "Where are you from?" and "Where do you live?" She goes on to explain that, depending on whether we're talking about cities and towns, or countries, regions, and continents, the preposition in the response will change. Don't miss this important lesson!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela teaches us how to talk about liking something in each of the persons, using the verb piacere (to please, to be pleasing). Don't miss this very important lesson! And don't forget that spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto. Spago means string, so spaghetti are little strands of string! Italians will use the plural when talking about spaghetti.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela shows us how to ask people if they like something. And don't forget: the thing you like is the subject of the sentence and will govern the conjugation of the verb "piacere."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It's important to know how to talk about what you like and what you don't like. Daniela explains how in this lesson, and if you remember that when you like something, it pleases you, you'll get it!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela takes us through the conjugation of verbs ending in "ere," and explains how easy it can be if we remember some simple rules.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you're getting to know someone, you ask them their name and where they're from. Join Daniela's class as her students ask their first questions in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This lesson is about bene (well, fine). An important difference between bene and bello (beautiful) and buono (good) is that it's an adverb, and therefore doesn't have to agree with nouns. It always stays the same.
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