Ricarda, a young Apulian singer, sings a love song written by Carlo Palmas. The song involves plucking the petals of a flower.

Francesca has a relaxing day at the beach, buys some cheap earrings from a beach vendor, then tries the water.

Marika and Anna conjugate the verb to be in the simple present, present perfect, and simple past.

Capocotta is the name of the Latium beach where Francesca is spending the last day of summer. This stretch of shore became a nature preserve in the '80s at the behest of President Sandro Pertini.

Anna and Marika give examples of the past tense of the verb to be.

"È l'amore che conta" [It's Love that Counts] is Giorgia's second single. Venice is the backdrop for the video.

Francesco Renga's love song "Angelo" won the 2005 edition of the highly prestigious Festival di San Remo, then in its 55th year.

Marika and Anna go over the future and conditional tenses for the verb essere (to be). The vocabulary review covers the future and the conditional conjugations for this verb.

Marika gets to help a friend in need, and at the same time, show off her skill at using a hammer and nails. She tells us how she put together a chest of drawers and put up a shelf all in a morning's work, and had fun doing it.

A live performance by Gianna Nannini singing the compelling hit, “Meravigliosa Creatura.”

Renzo Rubino made a hit at the Sanremo Festival 2013 in the new talent section, performing his Il Postino (Amami uomo) [The Postman (Love me, Man], about love between two men. It was written by Renzo Rubino and Andrea Rondini.

Anna and Marika take us through the imperative, the subjunctive and the gerund forms of the verb, essere (to be). The subjunctive is used less and less in modern English, so it can be tricky to learn in Italian, but little by little even these forms will become part of your Italian language skills.

Big or small, thick or thin? Marika gives you a jump start to some of the most common opposites used in everyday Italian. You'll get the picture!

Anna and Marika introduce the verb avere (to have) and show us the conjugation in the present, present perfect, simple past and past perfect.

What time is the right time to say "Buongiorno?" Marika explains it and talks about how Italians tell time.