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

Natale tends his vegetable garden and tries to save his strawberry plants from the neighbor's chickens.

Daniela discusses the irregular conjugation of the conditional tense for these verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, and avere.

Marika's video on the flu also includes a lot of useful vocabulary on first aid kits.

Anna, and her very charming baby, show us an Italian modular transport system and some fun developmental toys.

Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.

Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.

In this first segment on the conditional mood, Daniela shows us how to conjugate -are verbs, focusing on parlare [to speak].

Marika's lesson involves the use of the particles ce and ne when they are side by side in a sentence.

Three greats: Ferzan Özpetek directed this video. Mina and Celentano, two singers beloved by Italians, get together on this song all about love.

Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."

Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.

Daniela talks about more verbs that take the preposition a (to, in) when followed by a verb in the infinitive: provare (to try), riuscire (to succeed), and abituarsi (to get accustomed).

Daniela and her class work on conjugated verbs followed by infinitive verbs that require the preposition a [to] between them.

Marika covers with the pronominal particle ci, this time providing examples as to how it is used with the direct pronouns: lo, la, li, and le.