Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna and Marika introduce themselves, letting us know about their lives and families. Anna tells us about her love for motorbikes and the big Ducati of her boyfriend. But Marika isn't so much of a fan of motorbikes anymore as she had a "bad" experience once. Let's just hear them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna and Marika are seated in an historic park, and reflect upon the meaning of life. In the end, they arrive at the conclusion that despite what's bad, life is marvelous and should be lived to its fullest.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna and Marika tell us about their favorite games and how they had fun as children.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika's friend, Anna, is back to wish us all a Merry Christmas, and to share what Christmas means to her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna has recently become a mother! She shares with us some of the experiences she had during her pregnancy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna speaks about her prenatal and postpartum experience with the Italian National Health Service. She also discusses the five-month maternity leave that working women receive.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna describes her delivery, from the first contractions to that magic moment when nothing else matters.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Season's greetings from Yabla Italian. A personal message from the faces and voices you know so well.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Some years have passed, and Michele's widowed mother has had some difficult decisions to make regarding her children. One of these is to send 12-year-old Michele to Milan to be an apprentice at the workshop of the well-known artist, Simone Peterzano. Michele has no desire to leave home and family.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele has a rough time of it in Master Simone's workshop. It's clear, however, that he has talent. A Knight of Malta comes into the workshop to have a look.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele manages to find a home for his painting, and receives something in exchange. Still at Maestro Simone's workshop, he grows up into a man and ends up trying to defend a young apprentice from being abused as he had been.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Michele goes back home after his mother dies and there, he spends some time with his childhood friend, Costanza Colonna. He tells her about his plans to go to Rome, the artistic center of the universe.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Once in Rome, Caravaggio looks for work in the studios of 2 Italian painters who were well-known at the time. Nobody seems very interested in his work.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio falls ill and makes the acquaintance of Mario Minniti who becomes a friend to him. He takes him to the hospital of the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Rome.
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