Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Vincenzo, a barman in Mazara del Vallo (a place you will certainly want to visit if you go to Sicily), demonstrates how to make a drink you will find exclusively at his bar, called VintRo'.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We discover an amazing spot in the Italian Alps that overlooks the Chisone valley: an eighteenth-century fortified boundary wall, one of the longest in the world.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Ora, the word for "now" can be combined with a number of other words to means something that has to do with time, but that indicates more precisely when a period begins or ends.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Grinzane Castle houses a Museum of Peasant Civilization. Alberto Angela shows us a huge wine press and explains how it worked.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here is some more about the very useful adverb and conjunction quando (when). It's comforting to know that quando is usually translated with "when," but there are a few exceptions, and above all, there are some new expressions to learn.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This segment is about how the famous wine Barolo came into being. It all started in the Grinzane Castle in the mid-1800s.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela looks at the various contexts for using the adverb ora (now) and its synonyms and variants.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Quando (when) is an important question word. It can be used as either an adverb or a conjunction.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains some of the idiomatic expressions used in the TV series, Commissario Manara. These expressions are ones Italians use every day in dealing with other people, so you won't want to miss this.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We go to the northern part of Italy: Piedmont, and here, in the southern part of the region, called le Langhe, what's worthy of being a World Heritage Site is about the land itself and what it produces, rather than about art and architecture.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Some idiomatic expressions need some explanation and Marika is here to do just that, this time using examples from the popular TV series, Commissario Manara. You'll be speaking Italian like a native in no time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
There are a lot of interesting places to see from the walls, as Arianna rides around on her rental bike: the botanical garden, a tower with trees on it, and the entrance to a pilgrimage route to Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The final segment of this tour of Umbria and Tuscany brings to the walls of Pisa and its famous schools of higher learning. As usual, Alberto Angela gives us some insight into how and why things happened as they did, as Pisa developed into one of the most beautiful and important cities in Italy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In English, the difference between "until" and "as long as" is quite distinct, but in Italian, it's a little blurry because the presence of the negative word non (not) might change the meaning of a phrase or it might not. When the meaning is not altered by its presence, the word, in this case non (not), is "pleonastic." We're talking about finché and finche non.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The fresco depicting the Last Judgement is almost like a photograph of the Middle Ages. Alberto Angela shows us where the sinners ended up and what happened to them in Hell.
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