Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this video, Marika explains plenty of expressions with the word bocca (mouth). Listen for the double C!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Today, Pimpa learns about rhyming because she hears a word mispronounced. In the word nuvole (clouds), the accent should be on the U, but Mara the butterfly says "nuvòle" to make it rhyme with sole (sun).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
What is climate change? What are the elements that make up climate? Marika begins answering these questions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa ends up going to the Amazon to visit some friends and make some new ones. The trip is long and not without its problems.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italians talk about the weather a lot, and in particular, the winds that come in from different directions. Marika gives us the rundown.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's the story of the Italian version of "killing two birds with one stone."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika talks about the difference between normal climactic events and extreme climactic events such as flooding, storms, and droughts.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains about the risks of global warming, fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect and what we can do to lessen the damage being caused.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa goes to the beach with Olivia the duck. Olivia gets lost but is helped by the shrimp Onin.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Why is Armando wearing a pink suit? Pimpa does some research. She and Armando make up some words at the end of the episode.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa gets curious about a yellow spot in the daytime sky. She goes to find out, and who does she meet up with at the observatory? Somebody very reminiscent of the astrophysicist, Margarita Hack. Check out our documentary about her.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
To take a break from the hustle and bustle of Rome, there is a place waiting for you, just 40 minutes away, where horses and cows graze in the wild, and where there is plenty of interesting flora and fauna to observe: The Sorbo Valley.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italia's peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides, so the topic of the sea creeps into the conversation easily. Marika explains some expressions inspired by the sea and the nautical world.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you pull your oars back in the boat, you stop rowing and sometimes this means you are giving up. Italians have an expression for this: Tirare i remi in barca. Marika explains this and other expressions using nautical terms.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here are some more expressions having to do with seafaring. In general, they are used figuratively, in a similar way to how they're used in English.
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