Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pasquale, who works for Michele, has managed to find some information favorable to Michele's case. Nicoletta finds out about the "night business" and asks Michele for some explanations.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Eleonora surprises Michele at the computer, where he shouldn't be. He is sure he will be leaving the Nest very soon and starts packing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It is Michele's last night at the Nest (according to him), and he goes to say goodbye to some of the residents. Then he goes to dinner at his daughter's place so he can meet her new boyfriend.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Michele's daughter brings him coffee and he asks her for a favor. Later, at the assembly, the subject of pollution comes up and there is plenty of arguing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Chiara goes to pick up Michele's jacket for him. At the Nest, there is an assembly to vote on Michele's proposal.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mario has invited his friends from the co-op to lunch, where he tries to work out a deal with them to clean up the property. Eleonora sees Chiara putting something in her top drawer and is curious.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Having heard about the money from Chiara, Eleonora goes to see Michele to confront him on the issue. She feels he is leading Chiara astray.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mario apologizes to the group and they decide to take up Michele's original solution, the night business. Iolde seems eager to develop romantic relations with Michele and comes on a little strong.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The two night workers take the cash and want to look around to take some measurements. Riccardo is shocked to see all the cash and asks Eleonora about it. Iolde is waiting for Michele, ready to have a glass of wine with him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Ligurian Song
Lorenzo Jovanotti, famous Italian singer-songwriter, celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy’s Unification, on March 17th, 2011. He delivers best wishes to all Italians, and sings "Fratelli d’Italia" [Brothers of Italy], the Italian national anthem, otherwise known as the "Inno di Mameli" [Hymn of Mameli].
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Måneskin is a band with four musicians who began playing together as students at the J.F. Kennedy High School in Rome. Their participation on X Factor brought about their phenomenal success. The band's name Måneskin means moonshine in Danish, and was a word that Victoria de Angelis, the bassist, knew from her Danish ancestry.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Roman
Massimiliano is a musician, and together with his friend Stefano, and the mascot Cuba, he's trying to introduce the group to record labels. In addition to talking about his dream, he talks about Garbatella, the neighborhood where he was born, and which he wants never to leave.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In World War I, Italians who up until then had spoken their regional dialects, found themselves fighting side by side against a common enemy. But Mussolini was interested in fighting the internal enemy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The nineteen twenties ushered in sound in cinema. Italy's L.U.C.E. [L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa or Educational Film Union] was founded in 1924 and generated the fascist regime's cinematic propaganda.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Soon after the introduction of talkies, dubbing came about in the thirties. Dubbing was extremely popular in Italy and remains so today.
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