Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you rent out a house to someone or rent a house from someone, it's important to know who's who. Marika explains how it works.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
No one likes paying bills, ma vanno pagate (but they have to be paid). Marika goes over some of the most common utilities and special taxes you have to pay if you live in Italy.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
If you don't check your meters and tell the electric and gas companies how much you have consumed, they make an estimate. Sometimes this means you get a nasty surprise at the end of the year, when they work things out, and figure out how much you owe in order to square accounts. This is called il conguaglio.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Another kind of subordinate clause is the temporal subordinate. One way we introduce it is with conjunctions having to do with time, such as "while," "when," and "as long as." There are other ways to form a temporal subordinate clause, and Daniela explains them.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika talks about going to the movies in Italy. Don't worry. Italians like popcorn, too.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about explicit and implicit causal subordinate clauses.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There is a certain kind of subordinate clause, called a "clause of purpose," that basically answers the question, "to what end?" Italian has a number of conjunctions that can be translated as "so that," and they take the subjunctive in most cases. So this kind of subordinate clause can be tricky.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika gets us on track with the words and expressions we need for talking about math. You might hate math, as many do, but it is handy to have the vocabulary at your fingertips!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We all know how to add and subtract, but talking about it in Italian is another thing. Marika helps us make sense of it and talks about the fractions and percentages we often find in the news and surveys.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The five senses. We know what they are in English, but let's learn them in Italian. First, though, Marika will talk about the noun senso (sense), itself, which has some meanings beyond its cognate "sense."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this second part, we look at the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the sense of taste. What are the receptor organs connected to these senses?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika tells us about the sense of hearing and touch in this final segment. Do you know what the largest sensory organ is?
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela tells us about comparatives used in subordinate clauses. There are three kinds: majority, minority, and equality.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
If you are unsure about how to use the Yabla Player, here are some practical tips for navigating the timeline using an Italian interface.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This song is one side of a phone call made to someone after meeting her at a party. But is there anyone on the other end?
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