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.
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].
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