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Marika introduces us to an area where Italian and English have some important differences: reflexive and reciprocal verbs. For extra help, see: Reflections on the Reflexive and Ci Gets Around: Part 1
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Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues to address the very sticky subject of possessive adjectives, and explains some very important rules. Little by little, you'll get it.
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Italy
Marika explains how to form adjectives from nouns, by using various suffixes.
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Italy Neapolitan
After having covered the possessive adjectives in the masculine and feminine singular, Daniela goes on to explain how the masculine plural works.
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Italy
To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.
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Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.
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Italy
There are lots of ways to form compound nouns, and lots of different ways to form their plurals. Marika fills us in.
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Italy Neapolitan
This is the beginning of a very important series of lessons because possessive pronouns or adjectives work a little differently in Italian. You need to add an article before the possessive pronoun. Daniela will explain it all.
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Italy
Just as in English, Italian has a great many compound nouns. Marika explains the different types. A proposito, this time she greets us a new way, saying buondì. It's simply another way of saying buongiorno. Dì is another way of saying giorno (day). Diurno is its relative adjective, meaning "daytime."
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Italy
In this final video on colors as adjectives, Daniela's students practice using all three types (static, positive and neutral) in sentences. As you'll see, it can be tough putting all the pieces together, but little by little, you'll get it!
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Italy
Marika tells us more about suffixes, and this time explains how to form nouns from adjectives. There's homework to do, too!
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Italy Neapolitan
We've gotten to the third category of colors, where they behave like positive adjectives. Attenzione! These colors have four different possible endings.
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Italy
Many nouns are formed by adding suffixes to another word. If you know the original word, you can guess the noun. If you know the noun, you can guess the original word. Marika shows you how!
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Italy
Daniela teaches us the colors and how to use them as adjectives. There are three different categories, so pay close attention!
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Italy
Here are the last three signs of the Zodiac, with new expressions and new vocabulary. The signs Marika talks about are Capricorno (Capricorn), Acquario (Aquarius), and Pesci (Pisces).
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