Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The series on Umbria ends with amazing landscape shots of Castelluccio, including fields of poppies, cornflowers, and lentil flowers. Castelluccio's lentils are justly renowned.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
In this first segment on the conditional mood, Daniela shows us how to conjugate -are verbs, focusing on parlare [to speak].
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Rome's Coppedè Quarter is the focus of the segment. Its eclectic style is difficult to characterize, but the narrator talks of the liberty style, which stems from the Liberty department store in London. In English, we know this style by the French term, Art Nouveau.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson involves the use of the particles ce and ne when they are side by side in a sentence.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
In this segment, we see some swordfish harpoon fishing, and hear an old Sicilian legend about a boy named Nicola who could stay underwater for a very long time.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Cascia and Visso are explored in this segment. The narrator makes the point that Umbria is the land of saints, naming: Saints Francis, Clare, Benedict, and Rita.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The alternative tourism video starts by showing some of Rome's iconic sites, but will focus on less well-known quarters, such as the Salario-Trieste neighborhood in north Rome.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Anna describes her delivery, from the first contractions to that magic moment when nothing else matters.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.
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