Michela shows us how and when imperfect verbs are used to describe actions, people, weather, and time.

Federica remembers some "insignificant" details, and Lara discovers a highly significant detail.

Toni and Sasà have an important conversation. This makes what happens next all the more poignant.

In some cases using an elision is not grammatically correct. Marika explains some of these cases.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

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.

Our guides bring us to the very old and picturesque Rabatana quarter of Tursi, and to Craco, where the ghost of Isabella Morra, a 16th century poet, is said to roam about the ruins.

Jacopo has quite a challenge at work today, and he tries to remind himself of the first rule for being a good couples' therapist.

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.

Niccolò Fabi's road song, Lontano da me ["Far from Myself"] came out in 2012.

Some left-handed patients have been found, and the questioning begins.

*To understand captions 40 and 41 more fully, see this vocabulary insight.

Everyone is in shock, and Enzo feels responsible.

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.

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.

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