Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This year's holiday greetings from the Yabla Italian team include a short poem by Gianni Rodari. He asks a soothsayer to see into the future. Let's see what the soothsayer says! Heartfelt thanks to all who are honing their Italian skills with Yabla.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Adriano shows us the place where the reception will take place. It will include dining and dancing, complete with deejay.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Holiday greetings from Yabla Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Christmas greetings from Italy by way of a Christmas poem by Alda Merini.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Laura joins Carlo in questioning the contestants about animal traits in this elimination round.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna is quizzed on Sardinia and can easily identify the capital and its major cities, its nuraghes (characteristic low towers), its cantu a tenore (traditional singing), but comes up short on providing the name of a typical Sardinian dish.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The contestants face another round robin of questions, this time regarding four specific years. It's a great chance to practice those long, one-word numbers Italians use.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Season's greetings from Yabla Italian. A personal message from the faces and voices you know so well.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Adriano tells us about the famous southern Italian folk dance, la tarantella. He also tries dancing it himself.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's video on the flu also includes a lot of useful vocabulary on first aid kits.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna, and her very charming baby, show us an Italian modular transport system and some fun developmental toys.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The vain queen's wickedness has its limits.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with some fun changes in Italian. The wicked queen's rhyme for the mirror is different, and when one of the dwarfs beholds Snow White, he exclaims, "Mamma mia."
The vocabulary review is dedicated to passato remoto verbs in the third person singular!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In many languages, animals are used to describe human characteristics, but not every language uses the same animal for the same characteristic! Marika shares with us the Italian point of view.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us her children's cozy bedroom. You may notice that there is an emphasis on drawing and coloring. Italian students are graded on their drawings.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We continue getting acquainted with Marika's apartment. This time she shows us the hall with its furnishings.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika shows us the entryway of her apartment, from the intercom to the coat rack.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's one of the most famous fairy tales of all, "Cinderella." The Italian, "La Cenerentola" comes from the noun la cenere (ash, ashes, cinder). See how much you can understand without the English subtitles!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There's plenty of new vocabulary in the well-known story of "Sleeping Beauty". And since there are both a king and a queen, and twelve fairies, many verbs are in the third person plural of the passato remoto! Make the most of it!
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