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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

After having covered the possessive adjectives in the masculine and feminine singular, Daniela goes on to explain how the masculine plural works.

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Caption 5 [it]: Allora, l' a', l'aggettivo possessivo di base è lo stesso.
Caption 5 [en]: So, the... the basic possessive adjective is the same.

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Marika spiega - La formazione dei contrari

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.

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Caption 3 [it]: No? Te lo ricordo io!
Caption 3 [en]: No? I'll remind you!

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Cenerentola - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.

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Caption 15 [it]: Cenerentola perse di vista lo scorrere del tempo.
Caption 15 [en]: Cinderella completely lost track of the time.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.

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Caption 27 [it]: Lo stesso sistema vale per il femminile singolare, che adesso guardiamo.
Caption 27 [en]: The same system goes for the feminine singular, which we'll look at now.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Luca and Lara go to question the tanner. He's not as forthcoming as they would have liked, but Luca, true to his nature, breaks the rules once again.

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Caption 8 [it]: Lei lo sa che nell'oasi della laguna sono stati trovati dei rifiuti chimici?
Caption 8 [en]: Do you know that in the lagoon nature preserve, they found toxic waste?

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Ti racconto una fiaba - La Bella Addormentata nel Bosco - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!

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Caption 21 [it]: e i viticci intrecciati si staccarono gli uni dagli altri e lo fecero entrare.
Caption 21 [en]: and the entangled vines gave way and let him inside.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

This is the beginning of a very important series of lessons because possessive pronouns or adjectives work a little differently in Italian. You need to add an article before the possessive pronoun. Daniela will explain it all.

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Caption 38 [it]: In italiano non cambia, è sempre lo stesso,
Caption 38 [en]: In Italian, it doesn't change. It's always the same,

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Zia Caterina might have found herself a gardener/handyman, and Luca and Lara locate the reels of film left by the film maker.

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Caption 13 [it]: Aspetti, eh! -Ah, sì. -Lo trovo subito...
Caption 13 [en]: Wait a minute. -Ah yes. -I'll find it right away...

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Marika spiega - Le parole composte - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Just as in English, Italian has a great many compound nouns. Marika explains the different types. A proposito, this time she greets us a new way, saying buondì. It's simply another way of saying buongiorno. Dì is another way of saying giorno (day). Diurno is its relative adjective, meaning "daytime."

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Caption 7 [it]: per esempio, per togliere l'acqua dalla pasta si usa lo scolapasta,
Caption 7 [en]: for example, to remove the water from the pasta, you use the "scola-pasta" (pasta drainer or colander),

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L'arte della cucina - L'Epoca delle Piccole Rivoluzioni - Part 8

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Gualtiero put some very fancy lamps in his new restaurant, but it stayed almost empty for a good while. He didn't give up, nor did he stoop to using the techniques a New York restaurant used when it opened.

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Caption 30 [it]: Con la mia cucina volevo interpretare lo stile di vita dei tempi,
Caption 30 [en]: With my cooking I wanted to interpret the living style of the times,

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Ti racconto una fiaba - La Bella Addormentata nel Bosco - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

There's plenty of new vocabulary in the well-known story of "Sleeping Beauty". And since there are both a king and a queen, and twelve fairies, many verbs are in the third person plural of the passato remoto! Make the most of it!

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Caption 23 [it]: "Non posso annullare questo brutto incantesimo, ma lo posso attenuare.
Caption 23 [en]: "I cannot lift this evil spell, but I can ease it.

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Marika spiega - La formazione dei nomi - Part 2

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika tells us more about suffixes, and this time explains how to form nouns from adjectives. There's homework to do, too!

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Caption 30 [it]: Cosa fa lo scultore?
Caption 30 [en]: What does a sculptor do?

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Anna e Marika - in TG Yabla Italia e Meteo - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

What's going on in Italy? Marika, Guido, Serena, and Anna give you the latest.

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Caption 42 [it]: che chi lo indossi sia in grado di parlare immediatamente la lingua del luogo!
Caption 42 [en]: that whoever wears it is able to immediately speak the language of the place!

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Professioni e mestieri - Silvia D'Onghia, giornalista

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Silvia is an editor (in real life) for Il Fatto Quotidiano (The Daily Event), a national newspaper with some special characteristics. Silvia tells us what kind of news she covers, and some of the problems she encounters.

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Caption 72 [it]: però io lo rifarei mille e mille altr...
Caption 72 [en]: but I'd do it again a thousand and a thousand more...

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - I colori - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

We've gotten to the third category of colors, where they behave like positive adjectives. Attenzione! These colors have four different possible endings.

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Caption 17 [it]: dove lo scriviamo? Qui? -Azzurro.
Caption 17 [en]: where do we write it? Here? -Azzurro (blue).

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