Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this last part, Marika provides some expressions to use when you're frustrated or when you forget what you were about to say. They all use la testa (the head) as the featured body part.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
As Pimpa is having her breakfast, she hears a song on the radio about a sombrero. To find out what a sombrero is, she ventures out on another exciting adventure.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italians scratch their heads when they are perplexed, just like English speakers do. It's grattarsi la testa. In this segment, Marika explains this and other expressions having to do with the head. Sometimes "testa" can be translated as "head" and other times, as "mind."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa's lazy day is interrupted by a call from Bunny. He has a fun plan for the day but his call to Pimpa is suddenly disconnected. Not to worry, Pimpa has a solution.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are various ways to talk about being obsessed, distracted, or crazy... Marika has some great examples from our favorite TV series.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pimpa wakes up to a strange sight in her living room. Once she figures out the problem, she sets out to help resolve it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's explanations together with examples from video clips make it easy and fun to learn new expressions using la testa (the head).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are a great many expressions with la testa (the head) as the protagonist. Marika, gives us a first round of explanations and examples, many of them from Yabla videos.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Do you know all the expressions associated with hair? Marika explains some and gives us plenty of examples. Keep in mind that in Italian, i capelli is the plural, and hair is countable.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italian, like English, uses body parts in lots of expressions. Marika gives us some examples of expressions using the word capello or its plural capelli. Let's keep in mind that in English "hair" isn't usually countable, but in Italian it is!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika has set up a Q & A series of videos specifically designed to answer your questions in more detail and with more examples than what is possible in the comments section of a Yabla video. She explains how it works in this video, so don't miss out on the opportunity to get your questions answered!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Enjoy another walk through the fields with pig brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time Piggeldy wants to know how one gets to Swinebridge.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Just as there are many ways of saying "Yes" without saying sì, there are plenty of ways of saying "No" without saying no. Check them all out!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
After the recap from the previous episode, the kids get to work on the cake they have to make in order to beat Davide and gain permission to use his kitchen for practice.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika describes some situations, asks a related question, and provides us with various ways to answer in the affirmative. 18 ways to say sì (yes).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The 3 highschool kids tell us more about their types of schools and the subjects they are taking. Two of them give younger students some advice.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The Villa San Marco is an amazingly well-preserved luxury villa from the Augustan period, with a wonderful panoramic view of Vesuvius and the gulf of Naples. Marika shows us around the four nuclei of the villa.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A triple interview of 3 teenagers who answer some basic questions about themselves. Are there more similarities or differences among them? Let's find out.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In 1749, King Charles of Bourbon (Charles III of Spain) or Carlo Terzo di Borbone, who was King of Naples at the time, commissioned an important campaign of archeological digs in an area near that city. Marika tells us the story.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's the last segment about the verb tenere where Marika provides several expressions using the verb. In some cases, we can use "to keep" and "to hold" when translating, but not always.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We learn in this segment that the verb tenere can mean not only "to hold," but also "to keep" or "to have."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
As promised, Marika talks about the verb tenere (to keep, to hold), beginning with its conjugation. Let's keep in mind that Italian tenses don't always correspond to the English ones. For example, the passato prossimo is conjugated like the English present perfect tense, but is used differently in expressing events in time. The imperfetto is translated various ways in English. See this lesson about the imperfetto.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In Italy, August is the warmest month, and most Italians try to go on vacation for at least part of the month. The most important vacation day is August 15th, called Ferragosto.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Piggeldy and Frederick take a walk on a path they'd been on before, but they are in for some surprises. They discover that "tidying up" doesn't always mean the same thing.
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