Giuseppe Pitrè loved attending performances of chivalric folk plays in Palermo. This segment follows a marionette player at Palermo's Opera dei Pupi, the same theater where Pitrè went to see folk epics.

Daniela recaps the modal verbs: potere [can], volere [want], and dovere [must], which are placed immediately before infinitive verbs. Modal verbs are also known as auxiliary verbs or helping verbs.

Paolo is surrounded by challenges: Manuela's family, to start with, and then the difficult decisions to make regarding the future of the factory.

A beach party concludes this episode, and season. Love is in the air!

Yabla takes us to a shop specialized in beauty products. There's plenty of new vocabulary here!

The tour draws to a close in Rome's rougher neighborhoods, those that were particularly fascinating to poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.

Emotions are running high in this segment and we're hoping that Lara gets found, and that she's alive.

At police headquarters things are nice and quiet. But not for long! The officers meet up with Camilla and Sammy at the apartment.

A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.

The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.

Daniela continues with the conditional, showing how it's used to express a desire, provide advice, or express possibility.

The tension is almost unbearable for everyone. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Minivip tells his doctor of getting stuck in an elevator, a fear many of us share. It is surprising that Italy, about the size of Arizona, has as many elevators as the US.

Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.