Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika outlines exceptions to the rules governing truncation, and provides many useful examples.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The final segment on truncation covers imperative mood verbs that take apostrophes, as well as expressions concerning maladies.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's opening segment on accents and accentuation in Italian.
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
Marika's last segment on accents covers some fun homographs. She also provides advice on learning the correct pronunciation of words.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
What in English is called a tongue-twister, in Italian is a scioglilingua, or tongue loosener. The Trentine one, with the alliterated Ts, is the most successful in English translation.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika, in her lesson on the verb mettere (to put, to set) includes some commonly used expressions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika provides more useful expressions that employ the verb mettere [to put]. Mettere a posto [to put in order, to tidy up] is one that is used on a daily basis.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika relates some expressions using the verb chiudere [to close, to shut]. A number of these are very close to English expressions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika focuses on the verbs cavare and togliere, both of which mean to remove. She also provides some expressions for both verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson is on the all important verb andare [to go]. She includes a number of common expressions using this irregular verb.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika starts off her 3-part series on particles, otherwise known as function words. In this segment, she mostly concentrates on the locative function of the particle ci.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson concentrates on how the pronouns: mi [me], ti [you], vi [you, plural] are used in conjunction with the particle "ci."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika covers with the pronominal particle ci, this time providing examples as to how it is used with the direct pronouns: lo, la, li, and le.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's lesson involves the use of the particles ce and ne when they are side by side in a sentence.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika features the verb mancare [to miss] and provides numerous expressions using the verb.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika's video on the flu also includes a lot of useful vocabulary on first aid kits.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
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].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika continues her lesson on the all-important verb venire [to come], providing many useful examples of its use.
Are you sure you want to delete this comment? You will not be able to recover it.