Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
This time the Magic Box spills out some bowling pins and a ball. Each character has a different way of approaching the goal of making the pins fall. Although bowling exists in Italy, the traditional Italian game is bocce, hence the name they give to the ball.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Mirò is taking care of his vegetable garden, but there is too much sun. What to do? Let's see what he gets when he asks Magic Box for help. This time Civ plays a major role in the success of the day.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy Lucano
First, we meet a young couple: Christian and Michela. They live in Tuscany and are engaged to be married. Both are from Basilicata, where they have come on holiday. Next, we meet three friends. They're all happy to live in the sea-side town of Maratea.
Difficulty:
Newbie
Italy Lucano
Flavia is from Maratea, but she now lives in Rome, where she attends university. She misses her native town.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
A visit to a sumptuous palace in Palermo which incorporates a variety of styles, from the Gothic to the Baroque.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Vittorio Umiltà Anzen was a lawyer who passed away in 2012. He loved Palermo and was proud of his house, which he shows us complete with private chapel and rooftop garden.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
A live performance by Gianna Nannini singing the compelling hit, “Meravigliosa Creatura.”
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
This was Gianna Nannini's first hit song in 1979. The popular song with its provocative lyrics is aimed at an adult audience.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Gianni is doing some yard work, and shares his thoughts about how plants go wild, or take over when they're not kept in check.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Gianni takes a cigarette break from doing some yard work, and tells us something about himself. Like many other European smokers, he rolls his own cigarettes to save money.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Gigi Proietti, a Rome actor who is widely known in Italy for his TV work, is in this advertisement for Kimbo Coffee.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
The dramatic song "Vado Avanti" [I go on] by Gioia Marconi describes a girl who's deluded by love and who doesn't see any future. Her hopelessness is overcome, though, by the will to go on. Video provided by PA 74 Music.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Giorgia performs the song "Gocce di memoria" [Drops of Memory]. The artist wrote the lyrics to music by Andrea Guerra. It was featured in the 2003 film "Facing Windows" by the director Ferzan Ozpetek.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
"È l'amore che conta" [It's Love that Counts] is Giorgia's second single. Venice is the backdrop for the video.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Singer-songwriter Giorgia presented this single at the Festival of Italian Music, Sanremo 2025. She describes it like this: "'La cura' for me is a song that tells of a search through a very strong feeling, therefore also an awareness of the strength of this feeling and also moments of fear, moments of deep solitude." In short, we must be our own cure.
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