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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We can see that the battle against using "Lei," the common, formal, second-person form of address, was taken very seriously by the fascists. In fact they went too far when it came to a popular women's magazine called "Lei" (she, her).

Gian Filippo - Palazzo Speciale Raffadali - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

A visit to a sumptuous palace in Palermo which incorporates a variety of styles, from the Gothic to the Baroque.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

Gian Filippo - Palazzo Speciale Raffadali - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Schools in fascist Italy banned the study of dialects and moved to using standardized textbooks. The fascist hymn “Viva Adua nostra” refers to a battle won by the Kingdom of Italy in 1896 near Adwa, Ethiopia.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mussolini inveighs against the middle class, saying that it is the enemy of fascism. Much of the footage in this segment features EUR, the Rome district that was built in the 30s and 40s.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The segment looks at the Royal Academy of Italy's dictionary of Italian, which was filled with quotes from Mussolini. By the end of World War II, the dictionary had gotten to the letter “C.”

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.

Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The story of Adriano Olivetti and his development of the family business, which expanded from typewriters to computers. This first segment shows CIA officers who consider Olivetti's electronic brain a great threat to American business. The segment also features a flashback to Adriano's childhood in Ivrea, when he was not too eager to learn the ropes.

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Adriano has some unwelcome news from Paola, his wife. On a nighttime walk above Ivrea, Adriano is threatened by a woman brandishing a gun.

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

There is an injured person in the woods in need of aid and Adriano doesn't hesitate. A birthday party is going on in the villa.

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