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Marika spiega - Il troncamento - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Dopo aver parlato di elisione, bisogna parlare di troncamento per avere una visione completa di come si usano le parole troncate ed elise. Buona lezione.

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Marika spiega - Adottare dei gatti - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Un oggetto indispensabile che bisogna acquistare prima di adottare dei gatti è il "trasportino", che però non è molto amato da questi animali. E se i gatti decidono di fare pipì sul tappetto di casa? Marika vi parla anche dei cosiddetti "disabituanti".

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Marika spiega - Il pronto soccorso

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

With the term pronto soccorso, what's usually meant is the emergency room of a hospital. Marika takes us through who to call if you have an accident, and how an emergency room works in Italy.

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Caption 63 [it]: non bisogna pagare nulla, è gratuito.
Caption 63 [en]: you don't have to pay anything. It's free.

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Marika spiega - Adottare dei gatti - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Adopting a dog means going through several steps. Marika describes what she and her family went through in attempting to realize their dream of having a puppy.

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Caption 38 [it]: e, poi, è varia, bisogna cambiare,
Caption 38 [en]: and besides that, varied — you have to change —

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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 3 [it]: Quindi, bisogna sempre mantenere un certo distacco
Caption 3 [en]: So, you always have to maintain a certain distance

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Modi Indefiniti - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Daniela gives us some more examples of gerunds used in subordinate clauses. Asking ourselves what questions the gerund answers can help us understand its role in a sentence.

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Caption 28 [it]: bisogna rintracciare la sua forma esplicita.
Caption 28 [en]: you have to trace its explicit form.

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COVID-19 - Domande frequenti - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika talks about how one can contract coronavirus, the symptoms, and the guidelines to avoid getting infected.

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Caption 31 [it]: bisogna rimanere in casa isolati.
Caption 31 [en]: you have to stay home, isolated.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi indefiniti - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Listen carefully to this lesson because the rules for these indefinite adjectives are a little quirky. These are about totality — all or nothing — and work differently from English, especially when they're in the negative. We're talking about tutto, nessuno, and alcuno.

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Caption 16 [it]: "Bisogna lavorare tutta la settimana."
Caption 16 [en]: "We have to work all week."

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi e pronomi dimostrativi - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

To finish up about demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, Daniela gives us some more examples and a summary.

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Caption 10 [it]: "Bisogna dare da mangiare a questi bambini
Caption 10 [en]: "We have to serve a meal to these children,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Forma negativa - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela explains how to turn a positive statement into a negative one, and how to form a negative question and its negative answer. The magic word is non (not).

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Caption 8 [it]: Bisogna prendere l'avverbio "non"
Caption 8 [en]: We have to take the adverb "non" [not]

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Concetto di "bisogno" - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues her lesson on necessity or need, providing examples with an impersonal subject. In English the impersonal can be expressed with "one" in the third person: "one needs," or by using the passive voice:"Something needs to be done." And in informal speech, we might use "you" or "we.": "you need to..."

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Caption 5 [it]: è "bisogna" più infinito.
Caption 5 [en]: is "one needs" plus an infinitive.

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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi di modo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.

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Caption 20 [it]: "La vita bisogna prenderla filosoficamente".
Caption 20 [en]: "You have to take life philosophically."

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Il congiuntivo - Part 11

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela talks about a special case scenario in which a verb in the infinitive may replace the subjunctive form in the subordinate clause. Learning this rule can make using certain verbs easier. She goes on to talk about impersonal forms of verbs where we need the subjunctive. This scenario is quite different from English, so we need to pay close attention.

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Caption 44 [it]: "basta che"... oppure, "bisogna che"
Caption 44 [en]: “as long as”... or else, “must”

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Marika spiega - L'insalata di pasta - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Here's a summer recipe that uses simple but good ingredients.

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Caption 41 [it]: e per togliere questo sapore molto forte, bisogna sciacquarli bene sotto l'acqua.
Caption 41 [en]: and to remove this very strong taste, you have to rinse them well in water.

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Marika spiega - Il Verbo Mettere - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika, in her lesson on the verb mettere (to put, to set) includes some commonly used expressions.

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Caption 12 [it]: introdurre: per aprire la porta bisogna introdurre la chiave nella serratura
Caption 12 [en]: "to introduce": "To open the door you need to introduce the key into lock

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