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
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
Daniela's lesson on future tense verbs ending in: -are, -ere, and -ire.
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
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
In this first of three segments on the infinitive, Daniela covers conjugated verbs followed directly by verbs in the infinitive, without the use of prepositions.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela continues with more conjugated verbs that are immediately followed by verbs in the infinitive. The lesson covers the very commonly used verbs: piacere (to like), desiderare (to want), and occorrere (to need).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about combining verbs in the infinitive with conjugated verbs where no preposition is needed in between them. She also talks about using the conjugated verb "to be" followed by an adjective plus a verb in the infinitive, again, with no need for a preposition in the middle. For more on this, with examples, see this lesson.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about verbs that require the preposition di (to) before another verb in the infinitive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela covers the verbs: ricordare (to remember), dimenticare (to forget), decidere (to decide), and dubitare (to doubt), showing how the preposition "di" is placed between conjugated and infinitive verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Pregare (to beg, to ask) and sapere (to know) are the last two verbs on Daniela's list of verbs that take the preposition di (of) and a verb in the infinitive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela and her class work on conjugated verbs followed by infinitive verbs that require the preposition a [to] between them.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about more verbs that take the preposition a (to, in) when followed by a verb in the infinitive: provare (to try), riuscire (to succeed), and abituarsi (to get accustomed).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this first segment on the conditional mood, Daniela shows us how to conjugate -are verbs, focusing on parlare [to speak].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.
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