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 Neapolitan
Daniela continues explaining how to use adjectives in Italian. This time she focuses on so-called neutral adjectives.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
To conclude this three-part lesson on positive and neutral adjectives, Daniela talks about neutral adjectives in the plural.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us the colors and how to use them as adjectives. There are three different categories, so pay close attention!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
We've gotten to the third category of colors, where they behave like positive adjectives. Attenzione! These colors have four different possible endings.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this final video on colors as adjectives, Daniela's students practice using all three types (static, positive and neutral) in sentences. As you'll see, it can be tough putting all the pieces together, but little by little, you'll get it!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela works on reflexive verbs, the verbs distinguished by their si ending. The si lets us know that the action involves the self. For clarity, the English translation is also given in a reflexive form, to aid in the understanding, even though English doesn't use it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela shows us how to conjugate reflexive verbs. It's not really any different than conjugating normal verbs, so don't worry!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Modal verbs in Italian are potere (to be able to) volere (to want to) and dovere (to have to). Daniela explains how they work!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela takes us through the steps to construct the passato prossimo (present perfect) of verbs. Attenzione! Even though it looks similar to the English present perfect tense, the passato prossimo is used for actions completed at a specific time in the past, so in many cases it corresponds to the simple past in English, not the present perfect!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us about conjugating one of the past tenses, the passato prossimo, for action verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela has her students practice conjugating a verb of movement in the passato prossimo (present perfect). There are plenty of details to watch out for: plural or singular, masculine or feminine, "to be" or "to have" as helping verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela teaches us the essential verbs and phrases for asking directions in Italy.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela goes over the very important words and phrases that help you to understand directions and navigate around Italy. She covers verbs such as "to cross," and adjectives such as "opposite," and "behind," as well as the simple and articulated prepositions used with place names.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
You won't want to miss this lesson, where Daniela introduces direct object pronouns, as in: I buy the book - I buy it.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela concludes this very important lesson about direct object pronouns. This time she explains about the feminine singular, and the plurals of both genders: Did you eat the apples? Yes, I ate them.
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