Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
A Palermo doctor is interviewed about his practice and the African and Southeast Asian immigrant patients that he treats.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A Palermo doctor discusses the Integration of immigrants in Sicily and highlights the successes in healthcare. Medical assistance is provided for all immigrants, whether lawful or not.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi meets Cumo, a flying piglet, in the cloudy sky. At first he worries, but then enjoys it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi gets a bad case of the hiccups, but Tribo has a tried-and-true remedy. Attenzione! In Italian, hiccups appear in the singular: il singhiozzo!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi gets himself in another pickle, but Tribo comes to the rescue with a very simple solution to the problem of retrieving breakfast biscuits from the dark basement pantry.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi and his friends compete in an art competition using the colors of the rainbow. The prize is a mouth-watering Chocolate Trophy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Dixieland airborne emergency squad rescues a comet and Dixi receives a wonderful ride through the sky as thanks.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi and his friends play hide-and-seek. To decide whose turn it is, Tribo recites the Italian equivalent to "eenie, meenie, miny, moe."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi is a sweet little flying elephant who faces his adventures with optimism and innocence. It's party time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi, with a little help from his friends, learns how to ride his bicycle without using the training wheels.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dixi needs to tinkle and Tribo works some fun magic to give Dixi the space and time he needs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Dixi goes to a party to celebrate spring, where his hungry little tummy gets plenty of attention. In Italian, a hungry tummy growls, using the verb "brontolare." Both a "growl" and a "brontolio" are onomatopoeic.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
La luna di traverso (the moon on its side) is a way of saying "bad mood." Dixi got up on the wrong side of the bed, but being a magical little elephant, he has the actual sidelong moon on his hands. What to do?
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