Marika goes over the verbs andare [to go] and venire [to come], verbs that are often mistakenly interchanged. She also highlights the expression, va bene, which can indicate that things are going nicely or can be used to voice agreement.

Marika continues with her lesson on the crucial verbs, andare [to go] and venire [to come], and provides many useful examples.

Here's a summer recipe that uses simple but good ingredients.

Marika finishes explaining how to make a delicious pasta salad, so you'll be ready to give it a try in your own kitchen. Buon appetito!

Marika, in response to Yabla user requests, begins her 3-part lesson on those pesky little words (Me plus lo, la, li, le, and ne, together with Ti plus lo, la, li, le, and ne), otherwise known as combined pronouns or double pronouns.

Marika covers these super tricky combined pronouns: glielo, gliela, glieli, gliene, and gliele.

Marika wraps up her lessons on combined pronouns in which ci acts as a stand in for places.

Marika begins a five-part series on the five different types of adverbs in Italian. Location adverbs, which would be termed more “prepositions” in English, are the focus of this segment. In Italian, the difference between adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions is often blurry.

Marika discusses adverbs of time, including: subito [immediately], mai [never], and talvolta [sometimes].

It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.

How much is too much? Marika explains about quantity, and shares some common idioms about quantity and degree that can come in very handy.

Marika shows us what materials she uses in her small home office. Whether you work or go to school, these terms will come in handy.

The noun biancheria (linens) comes from bianco, the Italian word for "white." Marika tells us why that is, and takes us around the house to look at the different kinds we use.

Greeting people is the first thing we do when we meet up with someone, so it's important to know how to do it right, especially when you don't know the person. Marika shows us how.

The word cosa (thing) in Italian is an extremely useful word, especially when you don't know the real word for something. Marika tells us about how it's used in Italian everyday conversation.