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 continues with verbs that require the present subjunctive, calling attention to the all-important verb sperare [to hope].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela focuses on verbs and expressions that express uncertainty or doubt, and require the use of the subjunctive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about a special case scenario in which a verb in the infinitive may replace the subjunctive form in the subordinate clause. Learning this rule can make using certain verbs easier. She goes on to talk about impersonal forms of verbs where we need the subjunctive. This scenario is quite different from English, so we need to pay close attention.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela works on the expressions where the verb essere [to be] is followed the subjunctive in the subordinate clause. The expressions include: È una fortuna [It's a bit of luck] and È un peccato [It's a shame].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The previous lesson ended with the verb essere (to be) plus adjectives. Now, Daniela goes on to tell us about the verb essere plus adverbs and then teaches us about a great shortcut for avoiding the subjunctive when using the word basta [it's enough, just]. Normally, basta signals the need for the subjunctive, but Daniela offers up some examples where the infinitive verb works best.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are some special conjunctions that take the subjunctive and then che (that). There are several of them but they're quite similar to one another. Little by little, as you hear them used, they'll become part of your vocabulary.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela goes over words or expressions that trigger the use of the subjunctive, including affinché (so that), a meno che (unless), and senza che (without).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela covers comparative sentences that require the use of the subjunctive.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela wraps up the lessons on the subjunctive with some sentences that begin with che (that), calling for the subjunctive. She also discusses some cases in which we can either use the subjunctive mood or the future tense.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela, in the first part of a two-part series, shows us how to express need in a personal way with the noun bisogno [need].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues her lesson on necessity or need, providing examples with an impersonal subject. In English the impersonal can be expressed with "one" in the third person: "one needs," or by using the passive voice:"Something needs to be done." And in informal speech, we might use "you" or "we.": "you need to..."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela discusses the imperfect tense for verbs ending in -are, -ere, and -ire.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela concentrates on the modal verbs essere [to be] and avere [to have] in the imperfect tense.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela discusses how the imperfect is used to describe actions in the past that are happening contemporaneously.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela shows us how to conjugate the imperfect tense of the following irregular verbs: dire (to say), fare (to make, to do), bere (to drink), condurre (to drive), and porre (to pose). She gives us a helpful tip for remembering how.
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