Finally there's a bit of action.

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!

Marika outlines exceptions to the rules governing truncation, and provides many useful examples.

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).

The morning has only just begun, but the day is already a huge challenge for both Sara and Jacopo, in different ways.

A left-handed suspect turns up, and has a bad temper to boot. Luca offers Lara a ride home on his motorcycle...

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.