Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The Bologna-based children's choir, the Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano, sings a Christmas song.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika provides more useful expressions that employ the verb mettere [to put]. Mettere a posto [to put in order, to tidy up] is one that is used on a daily basis.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The children's choir sing Una notte senza età [A Night Without Age], composed by Gianfranco Fasano, with lyrics by Mario Gardini.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about combining verbs in the infinitive with conjugated verbs where no preposition is needed in between them. She also talks about using the conjugated verb "to be" followed by an adjective plus a verb in the infinitive, again, with no need for a preposition in the middle. For more on this, with examples, see this lesson.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about verbs that require the preposition di (to) before another verb in the infinitive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika starts off her 3-part series on particles, otherwise known as function words. In this segment, she mostly concentrates on the locative function of the particle ci.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela covers the verbs: ricordare (to remember), dimenticare (to forget), decidere (to decide), and dubitare (to doubt), showing how the preposition "di" is placed between conjugated and infinitive verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson concentrates on how the pronouns: mi [me], ti [you], vi [you, plural] are used in conjunction with the particle "ci."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pregare (to beg, to ask) and sapere (to know) are the last two verbs on Daniela's list of verbs that take the preposition di (of) and a verb in the infinitive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela and her class work on conjugated verbs followed by infinitive verbs that require the preposition a [to] between them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Three greats: Ferzan Özpetek directed this video. Mina and Celentano, two singers beloved by Italians, get together on this song all about love.
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