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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 20 [it]: pur di non ritrovarti un giorno invischiato
Caption 20 [en]: so as not to find yourself entangled one day

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania Mazzucco grew up in a part of Rome on the outskirts, not the part people usually associate with the beautiful city. The white Fiat 500 her father bought for the family became an important part of her life.

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Caption 6 [it]: Così Melania descrive la borgata di Torrevecchia in "Un giorno perfetto".
Caption 6 [en]: This is how Melania describes the village of Torrevecchia in "A perfect day."

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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 41 [it]: un giorno Sandro Veronesi mi chiese se io avevo scritto un racconto
Caption 41 [en]: one day Sandro Veronesi asked me if I had written a story

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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 4 [it]: in cui la protagonista fa ogni giorno, per dieci minuti,
Caption 4 [en]: in which the protagonist does, for ten minutes every day,

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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 17 [it]: e malgrado sia un giorno di festa,
Caption 17 [en]: and even though it is a non-work day,

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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 107 [it]: e il giorno dopo, insomma,
Caption 107 [en]: and the next day, in short,

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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 26 [it]: Io penso il giorno dopo, di solito.
Caption 26 [en]: I think the following day, usually.

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Giuseppe Ungaretti - Intervista - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ettore Della Giovanna, noted Italian journalist (1912-2004), interviews Giuseppe Ungaretti, considered one of the greatest poets of his time, besides having been a writer and scholar.

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Caption 47 [it]: noi tutti ci lamentiamo ogni giorno dell'invadenza del materialismo,
Caption 47 [en]: we all complain every day of the intrusiveness of materialism,

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COVID-19 - 4) Gli effetti sul corpo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Coronavirus affects people in different ways. Marino and Giuditta share their experiences and recount what they did on their own, to try to get better.

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Caption 22 [it]: ogni giorno un obbiettivo: prima diecimila passi, poi ventimila,
Caption 22 [en]: every day, a goal: first, ten thousand steps; then twenty thousand;

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COVID-19 - 2) I sintomi

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

What symptoms did Giuditta and Marino have? And how did they handle their family duties?

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Caption 15 [it]: avevo tre tachipirine [sic: tre compresse di Tachipirina (antipiretico)] al giorno
Caption 15 [en]: I took three Paracetamol [antipyretic] per day,

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COVID-19 - 1) Il contagio

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marino and Giuditta tell us how they ended up getting Covid, and what their symptoms were.

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Caption 50 [it]: All'inizio, ricordo ancora il giorno in cui Marino,
Caption 50 [en]: At the beginning, I still remember the day Marino,

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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 39 [it]: Philip e questo giorno a lui dedicato.
Caption 39 [en]: Philip and this day dedicated to him.

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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 5 [it]: E così, un giorno, ho preso del materiale di scarto, di recupero,
Caption 5 [en]: And so, one day, I took some scraps, recyclables,

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Arianna e Marika - Il Progetto Erasmus - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Arianna tells us about her months of study in Potsdam and how beneficial the Erasmus experience was for her.

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Caption 25 [it]: E quindi dal secondo giorno che ero lì,
Caption 25 [en]: And so, by the second day I was there,

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