The final segment on truncation covers imperative mood verbs that take apostrophes, as well as expressions concerning maladies.

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

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

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

What in English is called a tongue-twister, in Italian is a scioglilingua, or tongue loosener. The Trentine one, with the alliterated Ts, is the most successful in English translation.

Marika, in her lesson on the verb mettere (to put, to set) includes some commonly used expressions.

Marika provides more useful expressions that employ the verb mettere [to put]. Mettere a posto [to put in order, to tidy up] is one that is used on a daily basis.

Marika relates some expressions using the verb chiudere [to close, to shut]. A number of these are very close to English expressions.

Marika focuses on the verbs cavare and togliere, both of which mean to remove. She also provides some expressions for both verbs.

Marika shows us her balcony, highlighting its utilitarian and pleasure sides. Washing machines are often placed on balconies. This is because Rome's climate is mild and there is little danger of frozen pipes.

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

Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.

Marika's lesson is on the all important verb andare [to go]. She includes a number of common expressions using this irregular verb.

Marika starts off her 3-part series on particles, otherwise known as function words. In this segment, she mostly concentrates on the locative function of the particle ci.

Marika's lesson concentrates on how the pronouns: mi [me], ti [you], vi [you, plural] are used in conjunction with the particle "ci."