Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Don't miss the last part of Marika and Anna's encounter with Signora Giuseppina of the Trattoria al Biondo Tevere. You'll hear about a 56 year-old fridge, five weddings in one day, and sheep who do gardening.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna tells us about the medical exams a woman can choose to do during pregnancy, and some of the problems that can come up during pregnancy and delivery.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna describes her delivery, from the first contractions to that magic moment when nothing else matters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Video from QNM (online lifestyle magazine aimed at men) featuring an interview concerning the new Citroen DS3 WRC at the 2010 Bologna Motor Show.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonella talks about her work history, at first in the family business, and later for an American corporation in the cosmetics industry.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonella describes her many assignments at the cosmetics company where she worked for twenty-two years, before the company downsized.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika interviews Arianna Manetti, the professional voice-over artist and dubber who narrates the fairy tales featured on Yabla.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika and Arianna discuss the Erasmus Program, a student exchange program that was founded in the late 1980s. It allows European university students to study at other EU country universities. The program is named after the Dutch humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna tells us about her months of study in Potsdam and how beneficial the Erasmus experience was for her.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna, born and raised in Italy, has recently moved to London where she has found a job and is trying to adapt to the English way of life. It's not always easy though...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
When one retires, it can free up time as well as one's mind, providing an opportunity to experiment and find out what is important. Armando, who worked as an architect before retirement, uses photography to explore the circle of life in nature.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Little by little, we discover Armando's fascination with oxidation. It seems to have started by looking at advertising billboards.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Armando tells us how the designs he is fascinated by come to be. It all has to do with billboards, and how they are marked up, torn, and over time, oxidized. The oxidation process is fascinating.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Armando begins describing the structure of his book, and talks about how he envisions a kind of journey, beginning in the far reaches of the universe, down to the tiny details of a flower.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, describing chapters 3 - 6, we can imagine storms, volcanoes, oceans, and mountains in Armando's photographs.
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