Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mara is bummed out, for sure. Felice too! Delfo, on the other hand, shows a side of himself no one has seen before.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Guia has a flash during the fashion show she and Carola attend. Pino puts on a great show for his friends from town.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's a magical evening in the town piazza: music, dancing, lanterns. Everyone makes a wish.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We've come to the end of this romantic story. You can see for yourself what becomes of Guia and Renzo. And let us know what you thought of it!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Roman singer-songwriter Mirkoeilcane sings about migration, from the point of view of a seven-year old kid who just wants to play ball.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Samuele Bersani relives the past when he was still a pre-teen, starting to have secret thoughts. The video contains plenty of illustrations of the words he is singing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Cos'è normale (What's normal?) is a song by Danilo Pao and Enrico Sognato, that questions what "normal" means in terms of how people live their lives. It's presented here in a music video where the camera, placed on the dashboard of different cars, captures the faces of the drivers and passengers, some of whom are members of the group Zero Assoluto, Salvatore Gioia, and the composers, who are singing the song.
Difficulty: Intermediate
North Italy
Rosalba lives in Pontedera and shows us her favorite park. There is a sculpture there that reminds her of a woman-cat.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Lombardy
Rosalba was a French teacher who has been retired for about a a year. She now spends her days writing stories and cultivating her passion for photography.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Chiara Gamberale talks about how and where she writes, and how her life has changed now that she has a little girl.
Difficulty: 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.
Difficulty: 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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.
Difficulty: 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).
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