Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

Marika's first of three lessons on truncation, where she compares elision to truncation. There are many useful examples, such as: mar, san, buon, ben, and signor.

Everyone is in shock, and Enzo feels responsible.

Some left-handed patients have been found, and the questioning begins.

*To understand captions 40 and 41 more fully, see this vocabulary insight.

Michela shows us how to conjugate verbs in the imperfetto (imperfect past tense). She covers -are verbs and -ere verbs. It's easy once you get the idea.

Jacopo has quite a challenge at work today, and he tries to remind himself of the first rule for being a good couples' therapist.

Luca, as usual, has a run-in with his boss about the case, and then has a run-in with the bank director whose answers are anything but helpful.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.

Toni and Sasà have an important conversation. This makes what happens next all the more poignant.

Federica remembers some "insignificant" details, and Lara discovers a highly significant detail.

Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.

We get to see Jacopo in action, at work as a marriage counselor. And who do you think shows up at his office?

Lara and Luca are trying to get more information about Bianciardi and about the girl who suffers from memory loss. On a romantic level, Lara isn't making things easy for Luca! It is interesting to notice that in Italian, the terms "Dottore" (abbr. Dott.) and Dottoressa (abbr. Dott.ssa) can also be used for people who have undergraduate degrees or no degree at all. They are used as a formal and obsequious title. It is difficult to find an equivalent in English and many people simplify the title by using Ms./Mrs./Miss. or using no term at all.

In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.