Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The final segment on truncation covers imperative mood verbs that take apostrophes, as well as expressions concerning maladies.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Toni is at the center of this episode, both in France and back in Scampia. But there are bad vibes circling around that are bound to break the harmony.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The "murderer" comes in for questioning, and Manara asks him some questions point-blank. Meanwhile Lara's aunt goes to the bank for a new ATM card (called Bancomat in Italian), and learns something interesting pertinent to the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Life goes on at the gym, but Toni isn't there. He's in France!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Finally there's a bit of action.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Kindness triumphs over looks in this tale of love. The Beast does, however, turn into a handsome Prince.
Practice some passato remoto verbs in the vocabulary review!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika outlines exceptions to the rules governing truncation, and provides many useful examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In the last part of this miniseries, Michela works on verbs ending in ire with her class. She also spends time on the all-important irregular verb essere (to be).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The morning has only just begun, but the day is already a huge challenge for both Sara and Jacopo, in different ways.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A left-handed suspect turns up, and has a bad temper to boot. Luca offers Lara a ride home on his motorcycle...
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Everyone is in shock, and Enzo feels responsible.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Some left-handed patients have been found, and the questioning begins.
*To understand captions 40 and 41 more fully, see this vocabulary insight.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has quite a challenge at work today, and he tries to remind himself of the first rule for being a good couples' therapist.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Toni and Sasà have an important conversation. This makes what happens next all the more poignant.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Federica remembers some "insignificant" details, and Lara discovers a highly significant detail.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We get to see Jacopo in action, at work as a marriage counselor. And who do you think shows up at his office?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
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.
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