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Absolute Beginner Season 1
Learn basic Italian greetings, including how to say "hello"
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Lesson LibraryLower Intermediate Season 1
Upper Intermediate
Lower Intermediate Season 1
In this 30-lesson series, you'll follow the story of Giulia, an Italian woman living in Italy, and her friends and co-workers. You will learn how to talk about current actions, one's opinions, hypothetical situations, and much more.
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27 Audio Lessons
1

Are These the Best Italian Films?

Learn the two progressive present and past tenses--respectively, presente and passato progressivo

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 • 13 Minutes
2

Where Will You Find the Most Beautiful Italian Beaches?

Learn the usage of the verb credere

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 • 9 Minutes
3

Get Help with Your Italian!

Learn the present progressive and the phrase 'Let me help you’

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 • 10 Minutes
4

This Italian Bread Shouldn't Make You Fat?

Learn the usage of opinion verbs followed by the subordinate clause in the subjunctive mode

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 • 10 Minutes
5

Have You Had Your First Italian Kiss?

Learn the adverb appena

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 • 13 Minutes
6

Did You Find a New Italian Roommate?

Learn using the time adverb ancora, yet and the different usages of the verb passare, to pass

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 • 13 Minutes
7

Don't be Too Late for Work in Italy!

Learn how to express time

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 • 14 Minutes
8

Did You Just Answer the Phone in Italian?

Learn about the different usages of imperfetto and passato prossimo tenses

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 • 10 Minutes
9

Can Your Italian Keep You High and Dry?

Learn about the hypothetical period

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 • 11 Minutes
10

Don't Forget to Make Reservations at the Italian Restaurant!

Learn about the first type of hypothetical period that we use with Italian "if" clauses

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 • 11 Minutes
11

Is There Room at the Italian Pizzeria?

Learn about the second type of hypothetical period in Italian the periodo ipotetico della possibilità

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 • 9 Minutes
12

No, That Restaurant has the Best Italian Pizza!

Learn about the third type of hypothetical period

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 • 10 Minutes
13

Get Dressed Up for Your Night Out in Italy!

Learn about the hypothetical period, if-clause

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 • 12 Minutes
14

Does Anything Beat Italian Ice Cream?

Learn certain Italian expressions and words that, due to their graphic similarity to other English terms, might mislead you in determining their proper meaning

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 • 12 Minutes
15

Will You be On Time for Your Italian Date?

Learn about using the hypothetical period

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 • 9 Minutes
16

Hungry? Try this Italian Dinner!

Learn how to use the hypothetical period

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 • 11 Minutes
17

Don't Make Your Italian Friends Wait!

Learn about the particle ci and also continue practicing using the hypothetical period

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 • 9 Minutes
18

Will You Hurry to Hear this Italian Concert?

Learn how to construct polite requests using both the type I and II Italian hypothetical periods

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 • 9 Minutes
19

Have You Met the Italian Art Critic?

Learn the differences between formal and informal Italian type III "if" clauses

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 • 10 Minutes
20

Where Can You Find the Most Delicious Italian Pastries?

Learn how to realize the hypothetical period using the gerundio tense in the subordinate clause

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 • 10 Minutes
21

What's Your Secret Italian Recipe?

Learn how to use impersonal Italian expressions to offer suggestions

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 • 9 Minutes
22

This Italian Pasta Will be Ready in Five Minutes!

Learn how to use the structure a + infinitive as an alternative way to form subordinate clauses hypothetical periods

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 • 8 Minutes
23

Won't You Open a New Restaurant for Delicious Italian Pasta?

Learn about if clauses using the a + infinitive structure in the subordinate clause

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 • 9 Minutes
24

Let's Buy Pasta at the Italian Grocery Store!

Learn how to use the correlated Italian e se ("what if") structure for other hypothetical situations

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 • 10 Minutes
25

Spaghetti, Tortellini... Which Italian Food Will Prove the Most Delicious?

Learn how to form it with standard Italian adjectives and adverbs

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 • 9 Minutes
26

How Much Time Do You Have to Cook an Italian Meal?

Learn how to use the Italian conjunction che in the comparativo di maggioranza ("comparative of majority")

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 • 9 Minutes
27

Do You Know an Easier Way to Cook Italian Fish?

Learn how to form irregular Italian adjectives and adverbs when forming the Italian comparative of majority

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 • 9 Minutes