Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela recaps the modal verbs: potere [can], volere [want], and dovere [must], which are placed immediately before infinitive verbs. Modal verbs are also known as auxiliary verbs or helping verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela continues with the conditional, showing how it's used to express a desire, provide advice, or express possibility.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In today's lesson on the conditional tense, Daniela covers the verbs: tenere [to keep], venire [to come], and sentire [to feel], among others. Modal verbs, as in volere [to want, would like] in the conditional are also discussed.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika focuses on the verbs cavare and togliere, both of which mean to remove. She also provides some expressions for both verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela continues with conditional verbs. This time she focuses on the key verbs: essere [to be], avere [to have], stare [to stay], rimanere [to remain], and dare [to give].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela's fourth segment on the present conditional tense covers the important, and irregular, verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, & avere.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika relates some expressions using the verb chiudere [to close, to shut]. A number of these are very close to English expressions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela discusses the irregular conjugation of the conditional tense for these verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, and avere.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this first segment on the conditional mood, Daniela shows us how to conjugate -are verbs, focusing on parlare [to speak].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson involves the use of the particles ce and ne when they are side by side in a sentence.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."
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