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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Capatti ricorda i vecchi tempi e torna con la memoria alla Parigi degli anni sessanta e ai suoi ristoranti d'atmosfera, con le tende di velluto rosso, le luci soffuse, il camino e dieci tipi di formaggi... nulla a che vedere con la nouvelle cuisine insomma!

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

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Caption 15 [it]: Quindi, insomma, è...
Caption 15 [en]: So, in short, it's...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.

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Caption 12 [it]: perché mi pare troppo, però insomma,
Caption 12 [en]: because it seems too much to me, but in short,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).

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Caption 16 [it]: è l'humus in cui si è formata la... sì, la mia narrativa, insomma.
Caption 16 [en]: it's the humus in which my narrative was formed, basically.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Leaving the outskirts of Rome, Annalena goes to a middle-class neighborhood where she meets professor and writer, Alessandro Piperno. He talks about what it was like growing up there and about his identity as a writer.

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Caption 48 [it]: e quindi, insomma, crescere qua
Caption 48 [en]: and so, in short, growing up here

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania talks about her relationship with her father when he was still alive. He didn't say much, but unbeknownst to her, tried to get a story of hers published. She talks about one her favorite parts of Rome: Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island), the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome.

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Caption 29 [it]: per chiedere, insomma, se...
Caption 29 [en]: to ask, basically, if...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6

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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Caption 8 [it]: Insomma, esistono o no i veri romani?
Caption 8 [en]: In short, do real Romans exist or not?

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 3

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.

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Caption 33 [it]: Eccolo qui. -Bene. -Beh, insomma è passato un po' di tempo.
Caption 33 [en]: Here it is. -Great. -Well, for sure, it's been a while.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 2

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.

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Caption 21 [it]: Eh, insomma, no.
Caption 21 [en]: Uh, basically, no.

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

When one retires, it can free up time as well as one's mind, providing an opportunity to experiment and find out what is important. Armando, who worked as an architect before retirement, uses photography to explore the circle of life in nature.

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Caption 31 [it]: in mezzo alla natura, insomma.
Caption 31 [en]: in the midst of nature, basically.

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Rosalba - al parco della donna gatto - Part 2

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.

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Caption 22 [it]: per vedere i dettagli delle case, degli alberi, insomma...
Caption 22 [en]: to see the details of houses, trees, basically...

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Rosalba - al parco della donna gatto - Part 1

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.

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Caption 40 [it]: insomma, tutti contenti di stare in questo,
Caption 40 [en]: basically, all happy to be in this,

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Le Interviste - I liceali - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The three highschoolers answer questions about what time they eat and go to bed, what they like or miss about where they live, and much more.

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Caption 24 [it]: ossia, "insomma".
Caption 24 [en]: or, "so-so."

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Che tempo che fa - Raffaella Carrà - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Raffaella tells some anecdotes about some big stars she had encountered during her career. She also gives us some details about a famous "telephone number" song, and the famous dance number, "Tuca tuca" that created a bit of scandal in the early seventies.

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Caption 20 [it]: "If you want..." [inglese], insomma, se lei vuole, glielo stiro io".
Caption 20 [en]: "If you want," anyway "if you want, I'll iron it for you."

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Che tempo che fa - Raffaella Carrà - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this part of the interview, Raffaella Carrà tells about how her grandmother helped her become the queen of Italian television.

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Caption 66 [it]: insomma, vabbè, se sono qua è colpa di queste due signore.
Caption 66 [en]: basically, OK. If I am here, it is the fault of those two ladies.

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