Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Daniela continues with conditional verbs. This time she focuses on the key verbs: essere [to be], avere [to have], stare [to stay], rimanere [to remain], and dare [to give].
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The narrator reads some moving passages from the letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet and near contemporary to Keats and Shelley, also lived in Piazza di Spagna.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us her balcony, highlighting its utilitarian and pleasure sides. Washing machines are often placed on balconies. This is because Rome's climate is mild and there is little danger of frozen pipes.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Anna shows the baby changing area that she's set up in her apartment. She talks about many baby care products, and the segment provides a great lesson in diminutives.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Daniela's fourth segment on the present conditional tense covers the important, and irregular, verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, & avere.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The segment touches on Byron and Shelley, but is mostly about Keats and his time in Rome. It also includes part of a beautiful love letter to Fanny Brawne. The narrator speaks of Keats living on the second floor. The Italian way of counting stories is to call the first floor, the ground floor, and the numbering starts above.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika relates some expressions using the verb chiudere [to close, to shut]. A number of these are very close to English expressions.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Natale tends his vegetable garden and tries to save his strawberry plants from the neighbor's chickens.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Daniela discusses the irregular conjugation of the conditional tense for these verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, and avere.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
More dreamy interiors of the Coppedè complex and an introduction to the Keats–Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika's video on the flu also includes a lot of useful vocabulary on first aid kits.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Anna, and her very charming baby, show us an Italian modular transport system and some fun developmental toys.
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