Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Enjoy another walk through the fields with Piggeldy and Frederick. This time Piggeldy wants to learn about proverbs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Luigi's wife reads the consent form. Meanwhile, Luigi gets prepped by different nurses for the operation he will have the next day.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
People often wonder where the name ferragosto comes from, as well as the holiday itself. Marika fills us in with its fascinating history and evolution.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At the police station, Lojacono takes a phone call about a homicide. The team has been instructed expressly not to take on anything other than ordinary business. This is decidedly not ordinary business, but Lojacono is no ordinary policeman, apparently.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
There's a class performance, Camilla is late, and the principal is not happy about it all. Viola and Allegra have a peek at the audience before the curtain goes up, and they each reach some conclusions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele deals with a patient who says she has trouble sleeping. Libero answers an ad from a sleep center.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The prison director refuses Alberto's request for writing materials, so he takes matters into his own hands, and learns a thing or two from his pupils, too.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
As promised, Marika talks about the verb tenere (to keep, to hold), beginning with its conjugation. Let's keep in mind that Italian tenses don't always correspond to the English ones. For example, the passato prossimo is conjugated like the English present perfect tense, but is used differently in expressing events in time. The imperfetto is translated various ways in English. See this lesson about the imperfetto.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
It's the night before Luigi's operation. It's hard to sleep for various reasons, but he is resting, when Doctor Zamagna pays him a visit.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Writer and scholar Fulvio Benelli shows us a part of Rome that tourists always flock to: Piazza Navona. But he tells us the fascinating story of how it came to be.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono has a careful look at the corpse and the surrounding area and draws some conclusions. His superior shows up and naturally wants to put Lojacono in his place, sending him right back to the station house, with the district attorney looking on.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
During the show, Allegra sees that her father is no longer in the audience and runs off the stage. Her mother comes to see her in the dressing room.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Libero goes to the job interview, where his future employer throws around some words in English that Libero has no idea about. He is shown a product with a demonstration of some of its features.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alberto becomes a hero by bringing his kids some pencils. They start to feel the thrill of simply being able to write their own names.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Fulvio shows us one of the most enigmatic monuments of all Rome, the Pantheon. He gives us some history, some interesting facts, and a legend, as well.
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