Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Find out the various different meanings of these words: campo, squadra, and verso.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Ready for some more Italian words with various different meanings? Marika talks about albero, batteria, and dado.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika talks about three words — piano, credenza, and tempo — that have something important in common. They all have multiple meanings, not just nuances, not just connotations. Technically, they are called polysemous or polysemic words.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains what partitive articles are all about and gives us some helpful examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Articoli partitivi, or partitive articles look like articoli articolati because they are formed with a preposition plus an article. But their function is different. Most of the time they are a way to say “some.” This lesson is about how to form them, and in future lessons, we will learn how to use them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika adds the preposition con (with) to the list of prepositions that combine with definite articles.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika concentrates on the preposition su [on] in combination with various articles to form the very useful sul, sui, sugli, sulla, sulle and sull'.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We look at a few more prepositions and see the contexts in which they are used.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We continue with simple prepositions, starting off with da (from). But da can also mean "to" or "at," so you won't want to miss this. Marika also explains when to use in or a regarding cities, countries, etc.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This video lesson is about simple prepositions, especially di (of, from, about) and a (to, at).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this part of the lesson about subordinate clauses, Daniela talks about analogies or hypothetical situations. The English equivalent would be when we say, "as if..."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela tells us about comparatives used in subordinate clauses. There are three kinds: majority, minority, and equality.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika tells us about the sense of hearing and touch in this final segment. Do you know what the largest sensory organ is?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this second part, we look at the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the sense of taste. What are the receptor organs connected to these senses?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The five senses. We know what they are in English, but let's learn them in Italian. First, though, Marika will talk about the noun senso (sense), itself, which has some meanings beyond its cognate "sense."
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