Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip gets taken for a plumber and is challenged by a broken washing machine.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip is called in by a lady in distress over a mouse. He also masters the doctor's line on eighty euros.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip's session involves his being present at a bank holdup, and his crushed fantasy of saving the day.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip's good deed of saving a dog is rewarded with multiple tickets from a traffic cop. His big brother, once again, saves the day.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip tells his doctor of getting stuck in an elevator, a fear many of us share. It is surprising that Italy, about the size of Arizona, has as many elevators as the US.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip gets real close to saving a circus lady but is hindered by trained circus fleas.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip in a dream has superhero powers, while his brother Supervip is powerless. However, it isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip is none too happy when he meets his namesake, a dog.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip, in this segment entitled Fatal Regressions, recalls a playground scene in which he misinterprets some baby talk.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Psicovip dreams of aliens from a planet called Pallara, where they have a thing for shoes. You could call it a fetish.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip is back on the couch, recounting an inadequacy dream to the shrink. He gets his portrait painted, the offer of a taste of a plastic banana, and an introduction to the shrink's brothers. All for €80.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Piccolo Coro Antoniano sing a Christmas song with quotes from English and German favorites.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The children's choir sing Una notte senza età [A Night Without Age], composed by Gianfranco Fasano, with lyrics by Mario Gardini.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The Bologna-based children's choir, the Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano, sings a Christmas song.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Dixieland is left in the dark because Mister Sun has overslept. It's up to Dixi to go and wake him up. The vocabulary review features third person verbs in the passato remoto tense.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Dixi toys with the idea of being a bear. That's before he realizes that it would mean missing out on his daily breakfast cookies.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
La luna di traverso (the moon on its side) is a way of saying "bad mood." Dixi got up on the wrong side of the bed, but being a magical little elephant, he has the actual sidelong moon on his hands. What to do?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi needs to tinkle and Tribo works some fun magic to give Dixi the space and time he needs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi and his friends play hide-and-seek. To decide whose turn it is, Tribo recites the Italian equivalent to "eenie, meenie, miny, moe."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi, with a little help from his friends, learns how to ride his bicycle without using the training wheels.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Dixi goes to a party to celebrate spring, where his hungry little tummy gets plenty of attention. In Italian, a hungry tummy growls, using the verb "brontolare." Both a "growl" and a "brontolio" are onomatopoeic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Dixieland airborne emergency squad rescues a comet and Dixi receives a wonderful ride through the sky as thanks.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi and his friends compete in an art competition using the colors of the rainbow. The prize is a mouth-watering Chocolate Trophy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi gets himself in another pickle, but Tribo comes to the rescue with a very simple solution to the problem of retrieving breakfast biscuits from the dark basement pantry.
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