You never know when you will be celebrating the new year with Italian friends. Here is some vocabulary that will be useful to you.

This year's holiday greetings from the Yabla Italian team include a short poem by Gianni Rodari. He asks a soothsayer to see into the future. Let's see what the soothsayer says! Heartfelt thanks to all who are honing their Italian skills with Yabla.

How to exchange greetings at Christmastime? What is the Italian equivalent of Christmas cookies? Marika helps us out with some good words and expressions to know.

While providing us with some Christmas vocabulary, Marika explains a bit about how Christmas works in Italy.

Adverbs davanti and di fronte have to do with a position in relation to something or someone. In contrast, avanti [forward], discussed in part 1, is primarily about motion.

Marika answers a question about some tricky adverbs of place: avanti, davanti, and difronte. She begins, in this segment, with avanti (forward), an adverb that is mostly used with verbs of motion, such as andare (to go) and venire (to come)

Marika finishes up with two more expressions related to seafaring. The first one is very similar in meaning to an expression Marika mentioned in an earlier video. Perhaps you will recognize it.

Marika explains some super common expressions Italians use all the time. After watching the video, try using them to describe a situation in your life.

Marika discusses two final expressions linked to the nautical world. One of the two is more of an Italian proverb, and a very important one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why is Armando wearing a pink suit? Pimpa does some research. She and Armando make up some words at the end of the episode.

Pimpa goes to the beach with Olivia the duck. Olivia gets lost but is helped by the shrimp Onin.

Marika explains about the risks of global warming, fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect and what we can do to lessen the damage being caused.

Marika talks about the difference between normal climactic events and extreme climactic events such as flooding, storms, and droughts.

Here's the story of the Italian version of "killing two birds with one stone."

Italians talk about the weather a lot, and in particular, the winds that come in from different directions. Marika gives us the rundown.

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.

What is climate change? What are the elements that make up climate? Marika begins answering these questions.

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).

In this video, Marika explains plenty of expressions with the word bocca (mouth). Listen for the double C!