Marika's last segment on accents covers some fun homographs. She also provides advice on learning the correct pronunciation of words.

Daniela moves on to some naughty irregular verbs that are also very common, verbs such as andare (to go) and avere (to have).

Marika covers the grave and acute accents, providing examples of words that have entirely different meanings because of their accentuation.

Daniela's lesson on future tense verbs ending in: -are, -ere, and -ire.

Marika's opening segment on accents and accentuation in Italian.

The first of Daniela's four segments on the future tense. She explains when it's used and how the present tense is sometimes used in its place.

For more on using the future tense for probability, see this lesson.

Fiorella Mannoia sings her 1987 hit song about women. It's a recent live performance and the audience sings along with Mannoia.

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).

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.

Niccolò Fabi's road song, Lontano da me ["Far from Myself"] came out in 2012.

In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.

Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.

Marika tells us more about the use of elisions in Italian.

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.

Ligabue wrote the love song Tu sei lei (You're Her) for his wife. The video was filmed largely along the Tiber in Rome.