Videos: Italiano
Choose the videos that are of greatest interest to you to supplement your basic language program and achieve your goal of practicing 36 hours with your Tell Me More program. Each video lasts about 25 minutes.
In the list below, you will find the titles and topics of each video and the grammar for which it provides examples.
Culture and Society
(5 hours 22 minutes)
1. Il Comico François Pirette racconta il suo Belgio
Social life, commenting on a situation, using the conjunction "se" ("if").
2. Cinema: L'ultima frontiera
Terms relating to cinema, descriptions.
3. Energie rinnovabili: una sfida urgente
Term for speaking about the world of work and the environment, the conjunction "che."
4. La crisi della classe media in Europa
Learn some economic terms, the word "più."
5. A Scuola di Musica davanti al PC
Vocabulary for discussing culture, education and technology, auxiliary verbs.
6. Le Campane in Europa tra storia e patrimonio
Musical and acoustic terms, architecture, impersonal expressions.
7. Il Multilinguismo in Europa
Language and social life, dialects, the present conditional
8. I Libri di Timbuctù
Printing, economics, arts and culture, the imperfect tense of regular verbs.
9. Gli Orfani del libero mercato
Family and civil status, geography, ordinal numbers
10. I Transporti cittadini di domani
Mechanics, transportation, "ci" and "vi."
11. Vita di frontiera a Nova Gorica
Evolution, lodging and describing geographical areas, conjugation with alternation of hard and soft sounds.
12. In Mali i giovani scelgono di restare
Education and the labor market, future tense
13. Nasce "ASK-IT", il navigatore per disabili
Travel, geography, technology, the auxiliary verb "avere."
1. Telescopi nello spazio
Astronomy, defining and characterizing something, using "c'è" and "ci sono."
2. Viaggio verso Marte
Geological and astronomical terminology, article-preposition combinations.
3. Rischio de collisione tra un asteroide e la Terra
Terms used in physics and chemistry, the interrogative form.
4. Nei segreti dell'acqua, la storia dell'universo.
Astronomy and astronomical instruments, units of measure, the comparative of adjectives and adverbs.
5. Nuovi Astronauti per l'Europa
Human characteristics and behavior, the imperfect past tense of regular verbs.
6. Un premio per la Luna
Astrological and descriptive terms, pronomial verbs.
7. Lo spazio e l'Europa: un'intensa che fa ben sperare
Meetings, nationality, administration, use of adjectives.
8. Marte, un planeta misterioso
Terms for describing objects and terrain, the interrogative.
9. La sfida dell'Unione europea nello spazio
Discussing project administration and collaboration, scientific research, the word "cosi" ("like that").
10. L'ideazione del modulo spaziale ATV Evolution
Air travel and means of flight, physics, time expressions, expressing obligation.
11. Le voci del Sole
Naming and describing sounds and music.
12. L'Università internazionale dello spazio
Names of countries, education, astronomy, the preposition of location "da" and articulated prepositions (contractions of prepositions with the article).
13. Bella Venere infernale
Terms for the solar system, geology, energy, the comparative.
14. Satelliti di guardia alla neve
Terms to describe natural phenomena, animals, climate, using "c'è" and "ci sono."
Politics and the Economy
(1 hour 40 minutes)
1. Accesso a la proprietà en Spagna
Career stages, banking terms, counting, agreement of the past participle.
2. Il ruolo chiave della Macedonia nei Balcani
Discuss schools and educational systems, the conjugation of regular verbs in "-are."
3. Una nuova politica agricola per l'Unione Europea
Terms for talking about labor and agriculture, ecology and environment, the relative pronoun "cui."
4. Il lavoro illegale: una realtà economica
Talk about labor, justice, economics, forming adverbs of manner with "-mente."
1. Caccia al mercurio al Polo Nord
Biology, cause and effect, pronomial verbs.
2. L'Europa alla recerca del suo patrimonio sonoro
Terms for acoustics and physics, scientific terms, using "quale" and "il quale."
3. Imparare le scienze giocando con l'acqua
Describe the environment, vegetation, ecology, use of the subjunctive mood.
4. Vestiti intelligenti
Sports and physical processes, the future tense of regular verbs.
5. Lotta contra le allergie alimentari
Language for describing foods, diet and health conditions, uses of the preposition "di."
6. Robot con sentimenti
Talk about physical and emotional states, time expressions, the conjunction "se" ("if").
7. Il surriscaldamento globale visto dall'alto
Talk about weather and climate, scientific research and units of measure, the gerund.
8. Nuove tecnologie per la sicurezza al volanteDescribe a vehicle and its parts, terms for talking about ground transportation.
9. Il cinema cambia grazie alla tecnologia digitale
Terminology for cinema and technology, atonic personal pronoun complements
10. L'energia rinnovabile che viene dal mare
Talk about energy and bodies of water, using the preposition-article contraction (le prepozioni articolate).
11. I rischi del mercurio
Natural sciences, volumes and dimensions, comparatives.
12. La ricerca scientifica del riso
Terms for talking about scientific research, describing physical characteristics of objects, using adjectives.
13. I colori del Mediteraneo
Chemistry, arts, describing and solving problems, conjugation and use of "venire."
14. Le nuove tecnologie e l'archeologia sottomarina
Archaeology and navigation, describing a person's physical and mental condition.
15. Sperimentando nei cieli del Grande Nord
Aeronautical industry, measures, geography and nationality, possessive adjectives.
16. Il robot: un compagno dal cuore di metallo
Describe physical and mental states, human relations and behavior.
17. Le fibre tecniche contro i disastri naturali
Architecture, professions, names of geographical areas, the verb "bastare," ("to be enough").
18. Il robot bambino
Photography, colors, physical descriptions, using the word "che."