Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Biagio Antonacci wrote the song "Vivimi" for Laura Pausini in 2004. "Vivimi" is tricky to translate, as it can mean "share life with me" or "experience me" or "live me."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
The important theme for today is "adjectives." In this first part, Daniela will teach you about "positive" adjectives. Find out what she means by that!
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika explains when to use the prepositions: in (to), da (from), di (of, from), and per (for, to, by). There's no need to learn them all at once!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Annalisa's "Una Finestra tra le Stelle" [A Window Among the Stars] was one of the top songs at the 2015 Sanremo Festival. The video was filmed at a famed Veneto villa, Villa Mosconi Bertani, where Valpolicella wine is produced.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues explaining how to use adjectives in Italian. This time she focuses on so-called neutral adjectives.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Nek sings a simple song about how people are made to love one another, despite everything. The song came in second at the Sanremo Festival.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
To conclude this three-part lesson on positive and neutral adjectives, Daniela talks about neutral adjectives in the plural.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
The third person "impersonal" has mostly gone out of fashion in English, but in Italian it's used all the time. Although in English it's common to use "you" or the passive voice, we've used the impersonal "one" here, in order to understand better how it works.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This is part of a film, Capriccio all'italiana shot in 1967-1968. This episode was directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The singer is Domenico Modugno, and you'll also see Totò. This was Totò's last film appearance.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela works on reflexive verbs, the verbs distinguished by their si ending. The si lets us know that the action involves the self. For clarity, the English translation is also given in a reflexive form, to aid in the understanding, even though English doesn't use it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Elisa covers Luciano Ligabue's 2014 song "A modo tuo" (In Your Own Way). Ligabue's song describes his concerns about his own daughter's growing up. Elisa's "A modo tuo" has been a huge hit.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela shows us how to conjugate reflexive verbs. It's not really any different than conjugating normal verbs, so don't worry!
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika gives us an overview on how to use direct object pronouns, which take the place of direct objects when the object has already been referred to. Here's an example of this in English:
"Do you know the answer [direct object noun]?" "Yes I know it [direct object pronoun]."
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