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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Diego De Silva racconta il suo percorso di scrittore, spiegando come abbia affrontato temi come la Camorra e il dolore con uno stile anti-retorico. Attraverso l'ironia e l'umorismo mostra come sia possibile comprendere meglio la realtà, prenderne le distanze e riflettere sui valori che contano davvero.

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Sandra racconta le difficoltà iniziali negli Stati Uniti e come, imparando l’inglese da autodidatta, sia riuscita a cogliere le opportunità del Paese. Partendo da un lavoro umile nella ristorazione, in poco tempo è cresciuta professionalmente fino a diventare dining room manager.

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

After leaving Naples, the journey continues to Caserta, a city suspended between the grandeur of the Royal Palace and the identity of a province that balances tradition and modernity. Here Annalena meets writer and screenwriter Francesco Piccolo, who shares his deep bond with the city where he was born and raised.

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Caption 57 [it]: a Caserta, la tua città. -E sono felice che tu sia a Caserta,
Caption 57 [en]: to Caserta, your city. -And I'm happy you're in Caserta,

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Diego De Silva talks about his connection with Salerno and reflects on how contradictions, uneasiness, and complex relationships with one's places of origin fuel writing. Through personal memories and references to Vincenzo Malinconico, a character in one of his books, emerges the portrait of an author who transforms lived experience into storytelling and literature.

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Caption 15 [it]: dare un nome alle cose che non sia
Caption 15 [en]: to give a name to things that is not

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.

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Caption 38 [it]: Cioè, è sia un personaggio letterario
Caption 38 [en]: That is, it's both a literary character

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The story of Sandra continues, a Tuscan chef who emigrated to the United States, who established herself in Miami with authentic Tuscan cuisine. Thanks to her continuous ties with Italy, she keeps her roots alive, even cooking for Barack Obama.

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Caption 43 [it]: sembra che non se ne sia mai andata dalla Toscana,
Caption 43 [en]: it seems like she never left Tuscany,

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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 52 [it]: con l'illusione che Roma sia nostra.
Caption 52 [en]: with the illusion that Rome is ours.

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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 64 [it]: non ci sia differenza tra un uomo in rovina e uno in ascesa".
Caption 64 [en]: there is no difference between a man in ruins and one in ascendancy."

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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 2 [it]: che sia difficilissimo trovare romani veri,
Caption 2 [en]: that it is very difficult to find real Romans,

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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 19 [it]: Poi, credo sia stato veramente quel libro
Caption 19 [en]: Then, I think it really was that book

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.

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Caption 51 [it]: sia con amore sia con odio.
Caption 51 [en]: both with love and with hate.

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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 48 [it]: sia andato da Santa Margherita da Cortona
Caption 48 [en]: did go to Saint Margaret of Cortona

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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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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 64 [it]: Dipende, può essere sia molto freddo che molto caldo.
Caption 64 [en]: It depends. It can be either very cold or very hot.

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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 118 [it]: Non che lui sia antico, attenzione.
Caption 118 [en]: Mind, not that he is ancient.

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