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Adv Beginner
Italy
Fiorella Mannoia sings her 1987 hit song about women. It's a recent live performance and the audience sings along with Mannoia.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
In the last part of this miniseries, Michela works on verbs ending in ire with her class. She also spends time on the all-important irregular verb essere (to be).
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Michela shows us how to conjugate verbs in the imperfetto (imperfect past tense). She covers -are verbs and -ere verbs. It's easy once you get the idea.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Niccolò Fabi's road song, Lontano da me ["Far from Myself"] came out in 2012.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Marika tells us more about the use of elisions in Italian.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
The imperfect tense is one of several past tenses in Italian. It can be tricky to use correctly because it doesn't always match up with one specific tense in English. Depending on the context, it is translated differently. Michela uses a timeline to help you understand.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Ligabue wrote the love song Tu sei lei (You're Her) for his wife. The video was filmed largely along the Tiber in Rome.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Michela talks about adjectives that describe a person's personality.
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Adv 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.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
The verb fare (to do, to make) is used in lots of expressions. Marika talks about some of the most common ones.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Michela goes over some common personal adjectives. In English adjectives generally don't change according to gender, but with blond (m), blonde (f), brown-haired (m), brunette (f) they do change.
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Adv 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.
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Adv Beginner
Italy
Michele Zarrillo sings L'elefante e la farfalla [The Elephant and the Butterfly] at Rome's Auditorium in 2014. It was in 1996 that Zarrillo first sang this beautiful ballad.
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