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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Francesco Piccolo tells the story of Caserta through the places of his childhood, weaving together personal memories and reflections on fragility, identity, and the origins of his vocation as a writer. Note that our host, Annalena, talks about moments of negligible happiness and unhappiness. She is also referring to the titles of Piccolo's 2 books, Momenti di trascurabile felicità and Momenti di trascurabile infelicità. There is a film based on both books, whose English title is "Ordinary Happiness."

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Caption 35 [it]: Ecco qui, proprio sotto quest'albero
Caption 35 [en]: Look, here, right under this tree,

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In the historic center of Salerno, Diego De Silva revisits childhood memories and recounts how writing and the character of lawyer Malinconico helped him face and overcome a difficult period marked by illness.

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Caption 68 [it]: ho avuto un linfoma, ecco, diciamo.
Caption 68 [en]: I had lymphoma, that's it, let's say.

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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 62 [it]: Ed ecco che ora la vita con Giorgio
Caption 62 [en]: And here it is that now, life with Giorgio

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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 13 [it]: Ecco Melania Mazzucco, grande scrittrice
Caption 13 [en]: Here is Melania Mazzucco, a great writer,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

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Caption 69 [it]: però un po' più buttato nella mischia, ecco.
Caption 69 [en]: but a little more thrown into the mix, that's it.

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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 79 [it]: E adesso c'è Vita, invece, da cui non mi difenderò mai, ecco.
Caption 79 [en]: And now there is Vita, from whom I will never defend myself, you see.

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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 16 [it]: Ecco le campane, oggi è domenica,
Caption 16 [en]: There go the bells, today is Sunday,

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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 77 [it]: Ecco, io invece venivo da... Ho fatto un film in Francia, e a Parigi
Caption 77 [en]: Well, I was coming from... I made a film in France, and in Paris,

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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 88 [it]: Ah, ecco, così, dev'essere... -T'aiuto io, dai. -No, no, no, aspetta.
Caption 88 [en]: Ah, there, that's how it should be... -I'll help you, come on. -No, no, no, wait.

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Che tempo che fa - Raffaella Carrà - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Raffaella Carrà, one of Italian television's most beloved entertainers, and known as the Queen of Italian TV, has died at the age of 78. Here she is in an interview with Fabio Fazio on Rai 3. Her blonde hair was her signature, as you will see when you watch the video. She was a legend. She sang, she danced, she hosted, and she interviewed. For many years, Italian families would watch her talk show Pronto Raffaella (Hello, Raffaella) at the noon hour, when school got out.

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Caption 69 [it]: Un tarlo, sì. -Un tarlo. -Un tarlo, ecco.
Caption 69 [en]: A woodworm, yes. -A woodworm. -A woodworm, that's it.

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Adriano - Battesimo di Philip - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

After the baptism ceremony in the Palatine Chapel, Adriano takes us to another historically and artistically rich site in Palermo: the Convento di Baida [Baida Abbey]. In Italian, the term convento is used more commonly than monastero [monastery] and may house either male or female religious communities.

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Caption 6 [it]: Ecco. Facciamo un applauso.
Caption 6 [en]: There. Let's have some applause.

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Professioni e mestieri - il doppiaggio - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Now that Arianna has explained what dubbing is, she demonstrates the dubbing process itself, using a video from Yabla English.

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Caption 57 [it]: Ecco, questo era un esempio molto lungo di doppiaggio.
Caption 57 [en]: There. This was a very long example of dubbing.

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Federica Reale - Io e la mia Pupezza

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Pupazzo is the word for "doll," but Federica has transformed it (as she likes to do with words) into pupezza because pezzo means "piece," and as you will see, she uses pieces or scraps to make these dolls. Federica uses these rag/paper dolls as a means for looking deeper inside herself, at the dark as well as the light parts. It is part of a kind of therapy she uses to help others discover hidden areas inside themselves, by means of creative imagination.

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Caption 60 [it]: Ecco, questa è la storia dei pupezzi.
Caption 60 [en]: There. That's the story of my paper dolls.

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Federica Reale - Il mio mondo Su(r) - Reale

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Federica conducts art workshops for children and adults. Participants use paper, often recycled, to create highly personal books.

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Caption 1 [it]: Ecco, questo è il mondo surreale.
Caption 1 [en]: That's it, this is the surreal world.

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