Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Enjoy another walk through the fields with pig brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time Piggeldy wants to know how one gets to Swinebridge.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Just as there are many ways of saying "Yes" without saying sì, there are plenty of ways of saying "No" without saying no. Check them all out!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
After the recap from the previous episode, the kids get to work on the cake they have to make in order to beat Davide and gain permission to use his kitchen for practice.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika describes some situations, asks a related question, and provides us with various ways to answer in the affirmative. 18 ways to say sì (yes).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The 3 highschool kids tell us more about their types of schools and the subjects they are taking. Two of them give younger students some advice.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The Villa San Marco is an amazingly well-preserved luxury villa from the Augustan period, with a wonderful panoramic view of Vesuvius and the gulf of Naples. Marika shows us around the four nuclei of the villa.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A triple interview of 3 teenagers who answer some basic questions about themselves. Are there more similarities or differences among them? Let's find out.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In 1749, King Charles of Bourbon (Charles III of Spain) or Carlo Terzo di Borbone, who was King of Naples at the time, commissioned an important campaign of archeological digs in an area near that city. Marika tells us the story.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's the last segment about the verb tenere where Marika provides several expressions using the verb. In some cases, we can use "to keep" and "to hold" when translating, but not always.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We learn in this segment that the verb tenere can mean not only "to hold," but also "to keep" or "to have."
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: Beginner
Italy
In Italy, August is the warmest month, and most Italians try to go on vacation for at least part of the month. The most important vacation day is August 15th, called Ferragosto.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Piggeldy and Frederick take a walk on a path they'd been on before, but they are in for some surprises. They discover that "tidying up" doesn't always mean the same thing.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Piggeldy and his big brother Frederick are out and about, discovering and learning about the world. This time they set out to find where the sky begins.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This story teaches us how important it is to accept those who might not look like us and to be patient about finding our place in the world. And sometimes something that seems like a defect, can be a gift.
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