Daniela teaches Italian in a classroom, complete with blackboard, chalk, eraser, and students. Her lessons are very popular and people love her spontaneity and teaching style. She addresses grammatical topics one by one, geared to both beginning and intermediate level students.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela shows us how to ask people if they like something. And don't forget: the thing you like is the subject of the sentence and will govern the conjugation of the verb "piacere."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela teaches us how to talk about liking something in each of the persons, using the verb piacere (to please, to be pleasing). Don't miss this very important lesson! And don't forget that spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto. Spago means string, so spaghetti are little strands of string! Italians will use the plural when talking about spaghetti.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela teaches us something very important! When you have two verbs in the infinitive, one after another, they get connected by the preposition "a" (to). Most of the time one of those verbs is andare (to go). She gives us some examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
What are the words we use in Italian to talk about regular actions? Daniela takes you through them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela explains some very important rules about conjugating verbs. There are three types of endings. "are," "ire," and "ere."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela finishes taking us through the conjugation of verbs ending in -are like mangiare (to eat).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela does a quick review of definite articles in Italian, and goes on to introduce the indefinite articles.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela helps us understand how the feminine singular indefinite article works. Not to be missed!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
In the previous two segments, both the masculine and feminine indefinite articles were introduced. In this segment, Daniela has her students supply the correct indefinite article for a series of nouns.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela makes it easy to learn how to conjugate verbs ending in "ire," such as dormire (to sleep).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela finishes showing us how to conjugate verbs that end in "ire," like "finire." Get the whole story!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
This is the beginning of a very important series of lessons because possessive pronouns or adjectives work a little differently in Italian. You need to add an article before the possessive pronoun. Daniela will explain it all.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
After having covered the possessive adjectives in the masculine and feminine singular, Daniela goes on to explain how the masculine plural works.
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