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Marika spiega - Le parole composte - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

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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Marika spiega - Le pentole e le posate

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Impariamo con Marika a riconoscere ed identificare i diversi tipi di posate, pentole e piatti che coprono ogni giorno le nostre tavole.

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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 3 [it]: Un giorno vidi dei cuccioli di cane davvero meravigliosi,
Caption 3 [en]: One day, I saw some really wonderful puppies,

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Marika spiega - Adottare dei gatti - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika shares some of her childhood with us, specifically, her experience of having a puppy grow up beside her as part of the family. Now she has children of her own, and wants to give them that same special experience.

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Caption 11 [it]: un giorno ci fecero una sorpresa meravigliosa.
Caption 11 [en]: one day they gave us a wonderful surprise.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Piacere - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

The concept of liking and loving is nuanced in a particular way in Italian. Really grasping it takes time, practice, and experience, but this lesson should help to avoid embarrassing mistakes and misunderstandings when talking about relationships in Italian.

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Caption 31 [it]: Ti ringrazio di avermi creato e conservato in questo giorno".
Caption 31 [en]: I give thanks to you for having created me and kept me safe this day."

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Marika spiega - Saluti verbali e a gesti

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Greeting people is the first thing we do when we meet up with someone, so it's important to know how to do it right, especially when you don't know the person. Marika shows us how.

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Caption 9 [it]: "Salve. Buongiorno", se è giorno.
Caption 9 [en]: "Hello. Good morning," if it's the daytime.

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Marika commenta -La Ladra - Espressioni idiomatiche - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Chiudere il cerchio, mancare all'appello, mettercela tutta, and non c'è verso di are the four idomatic expression Marika explains in this video. Let's find out what they mean. The third expression is actually un verbo pronominale.

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Caption 27 [it]: Per concludere, se uno studente è assente, il giorno dopo
Caption 27 [en]: In conclusion, if a student is absent, the following day,

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Marika commenta -La Ladra - Espressioni idiomatiche - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Here are some more idiomatic expressions from La Ladra. They involve music, horses, and sweets.

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Caption 14 [it]: più volte al giorno al cagnolino,
Caption 14 [en]: multiple times a day, to the dog,

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Lombardia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Today the lesson is about Lombardy. Anna is well-prepared, but her maestra seems to be affected by la nebbia (the fog). Is it the Milanese climate? Or could it be something else?

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Caption 85 [it]: con visita, durante il giorno, alla Pinacoteca di Brera di Milano
Caption 85 [en]: with a visit, during the day, to the Brera Art Museum of Milan

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Marika spiega - I pronomi combinati - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika covers these super tricky combined pronouns: glielo, gliela, glieli, gliene, and gliele.

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Caption 44 [it]: "Lucilla si pettina i capelli tre volte al giorno!".
Caption 44 [en]: “Lucilla combs her locks of hair three times a day.”

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Verbo + verbo all'infinito + preposizione A - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela talks about more verbs that take the preposition a (to, in) when followed by a verb in the infinitive: provare (to try), riuscire (to succeed), and abituarsi (to get accustomed).

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Caption 29 [it]: Per esempio, io lavoro tutto il giorno,
Caption 29 [en]: For example, I work all day,

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Marika spiega - I pronomi diretti con participio passato

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika shows us the rules about using direct object pronouns. Don't be discouraged if you don't absorb it all at once. It takes plenty of practice, and plenty of trial and error. See first part: Marika spiega - Pronomi diretti

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Caption 62 [it]: e che un giorno mi scriverai una frase con un pronome che scegli tu.
Caption 62 [en]: and that one day, you'll write a sentence for me with a pronoun that you choose.

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Marika spiega - La formazione degli aggettivi

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika explains how to form adjectives from nouns, by using various suffixes.

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Caption 36 [it]: Oppure... il venticinque aprile in Italia è un giorno festivo
Caption 36 [en]: Or else, April twenty-fifth is a holiday in Italy,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Le parole: bello, buono e bene - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela goes into more detail about the difference between bello (beautiful) and buono (good) and clears up any doubts you may have.

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Caption 19 [it]: Il giorno.
Caption 19 [en]: The day.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Articoli ed eccezioni

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

If you know the rules regarding masculine and feminine articles, word endings, and plurals in Italian, you'll get it right most of the time. But there are some important exceptions which Daniela addresses in this lesson. They just have to get memorized!

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Caption 30 [it]: Un giorno poi, impariamo tutte le parole
Caption 30 [en]: One day, later on, we'll learn all the words

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