Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This was Gianna Nannini's first hit song in 1979. The popular song with its provocative lyrics is aimed at an adult audience.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At police headquarters, a suspect gets questioned, but Manara isn't totally convinced. When conversation between Luca and Lara starts getting personal, Toscani walks in...
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Our chef tells how his passion for cooking was born, and what books he used as examples.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika shares her impressions and her bubbling enthusiasm for the Expo 2015 held in Milan until the October thirty-first of this year. We hope you get the chance to go!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"Rosso Relativo" ("Relative Red") is one of Tiziano Ferro's greatest hits, and is the title song from his 2002 album. He uses an interesting series of verbs in the imperfetto, a tense that doesn't always match up with one tense in English. It's all relative!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues to address the very sticky subject of possessive adjectives, and explains some very important rules. Little by little, you'll get it.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika explains how to form adjectives from nouns, by using various suffixes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
An actual police officer tells us what it means to him to be one. He talks about the daily problems policemen have to deal with, not just the ones we see on TV.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There are irregularities in this case, and as both Manara and Rubino know, that's where you look!
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi talks about the hotel/restaurant his parents opened in Milan. He describes what it was like back in the Fifties.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
2015 is an exciting year for Italy, because this year's Expo is in Milan. Marika was lucky enough to go, and she's eager to share her experience with you. But first she gives you a little background on how the Expo got started as a phenomenon.
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.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi completely upsets the traditional concepts of cooking, and many think he's just too weird in his combinations and cooking times.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here's one of the most famous fairy tales of all, "Cinderella." The Italian, "La Cenerentola" comes from the noun la cenere (ash, ashes, cinder). See how much you can understand without the English subtitles!
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: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca and Lara go to question the tanner. He's not as forthcoming as they would have liked, but Luca, true to his nature, breaks the rules once again.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
We open a new chapter in L’arte della cucina (the Art of Cooking). Here the focus is on Milan, and the fruit and vegetable market where it all starts.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
There are lots of ways to form compound nouns, and lots of different ways to form their plurals. Marika fills us in.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!
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: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Zia Caterina might have found herself a gardener/handyman, and Luca and Lara locate the reels of film left by the film maker.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This clip is from the 2012 organ donating campaign by Pubblicità Progresso The music is from Tu che sei parte di me by Pacifico, featuring Christina Marocco. Visit: http://www.doniamo.org
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