Marika takes us to Venice where we have a look around through her "eyes." We start out near the Doge's Palace.

This time Magic Box produces a ragdoll. The friends have to invent some games, but not everyone wants to play nicely, and things get out of hand.

This time Mirò and his friends want to make music. Magic Box furnishes some everyday objects and the friends need to figure out how to transform them into musical instruments.

Mirò and his friends want to have a party. All they get from Magic Box are some paper bags, but they figure out how to have fun and be creative with them.

Marika explains what partitive articles are all about and gives us some helpful examples.

Mirò and his friends find wonderful clothing and fabrics from the olden days in the magic box. They use these for their games of make believe.

Articoli partitivi, or partitive articles look like articoli articolati because they are formed with a preposition plus an article. But their function is different. Most of the time they are a way to say “some.” This lesson is about how to form them, and in future lessons, we will learn how to use them.

Marika adds the preposition con (with) to the list of prepositions that combine with definite articles.

A charming cat called Mirò and his many animal friends are featured in this beautiful animation for kids. The circle of friends get caught in a rainstorm and use colorful umbrellas to keep themselves dry.

Marika concentrates on the preposition su [on] in combination with various articles to form the very useful sul, sui, sugli, sulla, sulle and sull'.

We look at the preposition in [in, to, at] and how it combines with the various definite articles.

Dafne and her father are waiting for her mother. When Dafne goes looking for her mother, she gets an ugly surprise.

In this video, the preposition we combine with a definite article is da. It can mean "from," but also "to" and "at." So, combined with the different definite articles, it's going to mean "from the," "to the," or "at the."

We look at the preposition a combined with different definite articles. This preposizione articolata is used, for example, in talking about the time: alle otto (at eight o'clock); about a manner or style: alla francese (French-style), al dente (not too cooked).

After looking at simple prepositions, Marika talks about a special kind of preposition called una preposizione articolata. It just means that the preposition has a definite article attached to it. In this segment, she covers the ways the preposition di (of) combines with different articles to become a new complex preposition. For example, di + il = del.