Marika finishes explaining how to make a delicious pasta salad, so you'll be ready to give it a try in your own kitchen. Buon appetito!

Here's a summer recipe that uses simple but good ingredients.

Marika continues with her lesson on the crucial verbs, andare [to go] and venire [to come], and provides many useful examples.

Marika goes over the verbs andare [to go] and venire [to come], verbs that are often mistakenly interchanged. She also highlights the expression, va bene, which can indicate that things are going nicely or can be used to voice agreement.

Marika continues her lesson on the all-important verb venire [to come], providing many useful examples of its use.

Marika focuses on the verb venire [to come], providing lots of useful examples of how it is used, and also contrasting it with the verb andare [to go].

Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.

Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.

Marika focuses on the verbs cavare and togliere, both of which mean to remove. She also provides some expressions for both verbs.

Marika shows us her balcony, highlighting its utilitarian and pleasure sides. Washing machines are often placed on balconies. This is because Rome's climate is mild and there is little danger of frozen pipes.

Marika relates some expressions using the verb chiudere [to close, to shut]. A number of these are very close to English expressions.

Marika's video on the flu also includes a lot of useful vocabulary on first aid kits.

Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.

Marika's lesson involves the use of the particles ce and ne when they are side by side in a sentence.

Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.