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Corso di italiano con Daniela - I colori - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

La lezione sui colori continua e oggi parliamo della terza lista, quella dei colori che si comportano come gli aggettivi positivi. Questo significa che il colore può avere tutti e quattro i casi in base al sostantivo che segue. I ragazzi si esercitano un po' in classe e Daniela addirittura canta. Buona lezione!

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sul Molise

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Nobody in the class volunteers to talk about the Molise region, but by chance, Anna gets called on. And we get to learn all about this small region.

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Caption 66 [it]: Addirittura.
Caption 66 [en]: Is that so?

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JAMS - S1 EP 10 - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The JAMS arrive at school in a rush, where the awards ceremony is already underway. Chef Borghese has just awarded the trophy but asks the winners if they would rather win by challenging the JAMS. Oscar, as captain, decides to continue the competition and they begin.

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Caption 13 [it]: Fighissime. -{Addirittura} le casacche.
Caption 13 [en]: Very cool. -Even the jackets.

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Vocaboliamo - La pasta - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika divides the types of pasta into different categories and explains their characteristics, ranging from ingredients to shelf life, to cooking time, and consistency.

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Caption 73 [it]: o addirittura anni se tenuta in un luogo fresco e asciutto.
Caption 73 [en]: or even years if held in a cool, dry place.

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Marika spiega - Espressioni legate al mare e al mondo nautico - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Here are some more expressions having to do with seafaring. In general, they are used figuratively, in a similar way to how they're used in English.

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Caption 45 [it]: un gruppo di amici o, addirittura, una città.
Caption 45 [en]: a group of friends, or even a city.

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Marika spiega - Espressioni con la parola lingua

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

You will find out in this video that there are really a lot of expressions using la lingua (the tongue). The tongue can be lunga (long), sciolta (loose), biforcuta (forked) and more. We use the tongue when we speak, so lots of these expressions involve speaking.

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Caption 87 [it]: Addirittura, mi è capitato di trovare qualcuno
Caption 87 [en]: As a matter of fact, it would happen that I would find someone

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 2) Proposizioni subordinate causali - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela talks about explicit and implicit causal subordinate clauses.

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Caption 3 [it]: o addirittura con il condizionale.
Caption 3 [en]: or even with the conditional.

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Marika spiega - Le bollette - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

If you don't check your meters and tell the electric and gas companies how much you have consumed, they make an estimate. Sometimes this means you get a nasty surprise at the end of the year, when they work things out, and figure out how much you owe in order to square accounts. This is called il conguaglio.

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Caption 24 [it]: in alcune tabaccherie e addirittura in qualche supermercato.
Caption 24 [en]: in some tobacconists, and even in some supermarkets.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Lettera informale - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

If you're not sure how to write a letter to your new Italian friend, Daniela is here to help. She tells us the parts of a letter and some options for the greeting and the salutation.

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Caption 39 [it]: o addirittura semplicemente con un saluto:
Caption 39 [en]: or even simply with an opening greeting:

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Affatto

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Just as infatti (in fact) has become one word made up of in and fatti, so also has affatti (totally) succumbed to the same fate. But here, there's a catch. It can have two opposing meanings, so you have to be careful. Daniela explains.

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Caption 58 [it]: perché "affatto" potrebbe addirittura avere un significato positivo
Caption 58 [en]: because [just] "affatto" could even have a positive meaning

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Marika spiega - Gli insetti

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Let's learn the names of common insects in Italian. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Caption 56 [it]: che può addirittura causare la morte.
Caption 56 [en]: which can even cause death.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Ora - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela looks at the various contexts for using the adverb ora (now) and its synonyms and variants.

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Caption 41 [it]: o addirittura per dei mesi.
Caption 41 [en]: or even for months.

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Marika spiega - Conversazione - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika and Daniela continue their conversation about making conversation in Italian. They even talk a little bit about baby talk, Italian style, including the vezzeggiativo (affectionate) form of adjectives.

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Caption 64 [it]: O addirittura ripetere la parola "ciao" e dire: "Ciao ciao".
Caption 64 [en]: Or even to repeat the word "bye" and say, "Bye-bye."

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Marika spiega - Conversazione - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela and Marika show us the basics of making conversation between 2 people who know each other as well as between strangers, or people of different ages.

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Caption 66 [it]: In alcuni posti del Sud, vero, si usa addirittura il "Voi".
Caption 66 [en]: In some places in the south, they even use "Voi," right?

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Forma negativa - Part 5

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela concludes this lesson about double negatives explaining that in some cases, when using double negatives with compound verbs — in other words, auxiliary verbs with past participles — there are some exceptions to be aware of.

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Caption 21 [it]: addirittura dopo il tempo coniugato [sic: participio],
Caption 21 [en]: even after the conjugated tense [sic: past participle],

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