Natale is proud of his fava beans, which he plans to harvest in time for the holiday family gathering on May first. Other featured produce includes artichokes and wild asparagus.

Daniela continues with conditional verbs. This time she focuses on the key verbs: essere [to be], avere [to have], stare [to stay], rimanere [to remain], and dare [to give].

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.

Daniela's fourth segment on the present conditional tense covers the important, and irregular, verbs: dovere, potere, sapere, vedere, & avere.

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."