There are plenty of people—women, actually— to send Luca off on his bus, but he keeps looking around for a certain someone to show up...

In today's lesson on the conditional tense, Daniela covers the verbs: tenere [to keep], venire [to come], and sentire [to feel], among others. Modal verbs, as in volere [to want, would like] in the conditional are also discussed.

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

Monopoly, the board game invented in the US in 1903, is used to explain monetary policies and Italy's current financial woes.

Camilla's normal family dinner with her husband and daughter gets interrupted by an unexpected guest.

We get a taste of what life is like at police headquarters without Luca. We also see that Lara learned some bad habits from Luca, going off on her own on a hunch.

Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.

Manuela and Paolo are trying to get ready for getting approval for adoption from Social Services. They get to know each other better in the process, and Natoli shows his true colors, too.

Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.

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.

The tension is almost unbearable for everyone. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Daniela continues with the conditional, showing how it's used to express a desire, provide advice, or express possibility.

The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.

A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.

At police headquarters things are nice and quiet. But not for long! The officers meet up with Camilla and Sammy at the apartment.