Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this second part, you will master using come (how) in questions and exclamations.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Holiday greetings from Yabla Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela introduces the topic of indefinite adjectives and starts with quantitative adjectives (think: some, several, etc.). In Italian, not only do we need to think about singular and plural, but also masculine and feminine, just as with other adjectives, so put on your seat belts!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Come is an important question word that means "how," but it also fulfills plenty of other roles. Marika spells out the ways...
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Andromeda, a true animal lover, tells us another story of an abandoned animal, this time a very unlucky cat.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Andromeda tells us about rescuing an old dog who was destined for the dog pound. Now he's a member of the family, but it wasn't easy.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
To finish up about demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, Daniela gives us some more examples and a summary.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Demonstrative adjectives can also be used as demonstrative pronouns. Daniela explains how that works, and also discusses how to use an apostrophe when the noun following the demonstrative adjective starts with a vowel.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela explains how to use the demonstrative adjectives questo and quello [this and that]. She also tells us about a third demonstrative adjective that, these days, is used only in Tuscany: codesto.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna explains what a casbah is, and she and Simone take us around to the Tunisian consulate and the old washhouse.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We visit some of the narrow alleys with names that have special significance. Arianna and Simone tell the stories of these names and show us some of the beautiful ceramic pots placed around the town.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna and Simone take us through the narrow lanes of Mazara to the little theater, built from leftover materials from ships, and on to the Casbah, full of ceramic artwork.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this last segment, Daniela focuses on when the past participle of a verb in the present perfect has to agree (in number and gender) with the direct object pronoun when using compound pronouns. It's a bit tricky.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna and Simone show us the historic center of this city on Sicily's west coast. Points of interest include its Casbah, where ceramic tile artworks tell of the city's Arab history, an unusual central-plan church; and the Satyr Museum.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela focuses on the partitive ne when joined to combined pronouns in the third person singular, masculine or feminine. In this case, the indirect pronoun aspect stays the same in both the masculine and feminine, singular and plural.
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