Marika explains a great many things connected with the Italian language and culture. Geared towards beginners, the videos include Italian lessons, simple recipes, conversation, and lots more.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's more about the popular word pure. It can express encouragement, resignation, or be superfluous. Pure is often truncated to pur when it combines with other particles to mean something particular.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The word pure has several meanings, from "also" to "even," to "although." Marika explains them and gives us some examples in context.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
"Manco" is a bit more complicated than "mica" because it's often used with irony. It's also used with the impersonal third person, making it rather tricky to translate. But remembering that it means neanche (not even) can help.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this lesson, Marika explains, with examples from Yabla videos, two words that always puzzle learners: mica and manco. The first part is all about mica. Here's what you need to know!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika finishes up with two more expressions related to seafaring. The first one is very similar in meaning to an expression Marika mentioned in an earlier video. Perhaps you will recognize it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains some super common expressions Italians use all the time. After watching the video, try using them to describe a situation in your life.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika discusses two final expressions linked to the nautical world. One of the two is more of an Italian proverb, and a very important one.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here are some more expressions having to do with seafaring. In general, they are used figuratively, in a similar way to how they're used in English.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you pull your oars back in the boat, you stop rowing and sometimes this means you are giving up. Italians have an expression for this: Tirare i remi in barca. Marika explains this and other expressions using nautical terms.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italia's peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides, so the topic of the sea creeps into the conversation easily. Marika explains some expressions inspired by the sea and the nautical world.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika explains about the risks of global warming, fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect and what we can do to lessen the damage being caused.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika talks about the difference between normal climactic events and extreme climactic events such as flooding, storms, and droughts.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italians talk about the weather a lot, and in particular, the winds that come in from different directions. Marika gives us the rundown.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
What is climate change? What are the elements that make up climate? Marika begins answering these questions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this video, Marika explains plenty of expressions with the word bocca (mouth). Listen for the double C!
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