Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The first of Daniela's four segments on the future tense. She explains when it's used and how the present tense is sometimes used in its place.
For more on using the future tense for probability, see this lesson.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In the last part of this miniseries, Michela works on verbs ending in ire with her class. She also spends time on the all-important irregular verb essere (to be).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Michela shows us how to conjugate verbs in the imperfetto (imperfect past tense). She covers -are verbs and -ere verbs. It's easy once you get the idea.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika tells us more about the use of elisions in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The imperfect tense is one of several past tenses in Italian. It can be tricky to use correctly because it doesn't always match up with one specific tense in English. Depending on the context, it is translated differently. Michela uses a timeline to help you understand.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Michela talks about adjectives that describe a person's personality.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The verb fare (to do, to make) is used in lots of expressions. Marika talks about some of the most common ones.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Michela goes over some common personal adjectives. In English adjectives generally don't change according to gender, but with blond (m), blonde (f), brown-haired (m), brunette (f) they do change.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika has more tips on how to divide syllables and some fun practice words, too.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
By popular request, Marika has a great lesson on dividing words into syllables.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The adjective forms learned in the earlier two lessons are used for a wider selection of nationalities.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika has a nice group of Italian idiomatic expressions using the verb prendere (to take).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Where are you from? Michela explains how to answer the question in Italian, whether you're a man or a woman or in a group.
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