Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela covers irregular verbs in this last segment on the future tense. The rolling of the "r" and accented "ò" make the verb endings fun to pronounce.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's last segment on accents covers some fun homographs. She also provides advice on learning the correct pronunciation of words.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela moves on to some naughty irregular verbs that are also very common, verbs such as andare (to go) and avere (to have).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika covers the grave and acute accents, providing examples of words that have entirely different meanings because of their accentuation.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela's lesson on future tense verbs ending in: -are, -ere, and -ire.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The vain queen's wickedness has its limits.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's opening segment on accents and accentuation in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The first of Daniela's four segments on the future tense. She explains when it's used and how the present tense is sometimes used in its place.
For more on using the future tense for probability, see this lesson.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Fiorella Mannoia sings her 1987 hit song about women. It's a recent live performance and the audience sings along with Mannoia.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with some fun changes in Italian. The wicked queen's rhyme for the mirror is different, and when one of the dwarfs beholds Snow White, he exclaims, "Mamma mia."
The vocabulary review is dedicated to passato remoto verbs in the third person singular!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Niccolò Fabi's road song, Lontano da me ["Far from Myself"] came out in 2012.
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