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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Annalena meets up with Paolo Giordano who talks about the trauma of moving from Turin to Rome. Giordano's first novel, La solitudine dei numeri primi (the solitude of prime numbers) from 2008 was made into a popular film of the same name in 2010.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Melania Gaia Mazzucco talks about one of her novels set in seventeenth-century Trastevere, quite a different place than what we see today. Although she has traveled the world, Mazzucco comes from generations of romani di Roma (Romans from Rome).

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Melania talks about her relationship with her father when he was still alive. He didn't say much, but unbeknownst to her, tried to get a story of hers published. She talks about one her favorite parts of Rome: Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island), the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Melania Mazzucco grew up in a part of Rome on the outskirts, not the part people usually associate with the beautiful city. The white Fiat 500 her father bought for the family became an important part of her life.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Leaving the outskirts of Rome, Annalena goes to a middle-class neighborhood where she meets professor and writer, Alessandro Piperno. He talks about what it was like growing up there and about his identity as a writer.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

Pubblicità Progresso - E allora? View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

The great Lucio Dalla offers this song in support of a campaign aimed at raising sensitivity towards those with disabilities, looking at them without prejudice, as people with the same dignity and desire for happiness as everyone else. Learn more at www.pubblicitaprogresso.org

Professioni e mestieri - Silvia D'Onghia, giornalista View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Silvia is an editor (in real life) for Il Fatto Quotidiano (The Daily Event), a national newspaper with some special characteristics. Silvia tells us what kind of news she covers, and some of the problems she encounters.

Professioni e mestieri - Psicoterapeuta corporale e Naturopata View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Marino meets Silvana and they start chatting by the sea. They discover that their professions are related (naturopathy and body-psychotherapy) and they enjoy sharing ways of looking at emotions and symbols.

Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

People seem to think Alberto is a bit nuts. He's about to go on live TV, and people around him hope he doesn't botch it. The name of the TV show is Non è mai troppo tardi (it's never too late). What's implied in the title is that it's never to late to learn to read and write. In Italian, a person who never learned to read or write is called analfabeta.

Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In Italy, at least in the past, the process of distributing teaching jobs was a real jungle, as you will see. The list, assembled by a complicated point system, involving test scores, experience, seniority, etc, was what would determine whether an aspiring teacher would have a job that year or not. Alberto Manzi knows he is qualified, but gets an unpleasant surprise at the education office.

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