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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 16 [it]: per me. -E quindi, visto che è piccolo.
Caption 16 [en]: for me. -And so since it's small,

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella talks about how light and hope are central elements of her writing, even in the most difficult stories. The journey then continues to Salerno, where a meeting with writer Diego De Silva offers an insight into his career and the themes of his novels, touching on social reality, irony, and human relationships.

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Caption 14 [it]: visto che siamo in una città
Caption 14 [en]: since we are in a city

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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 65 [it]: Ho visto questa città
Caption 65 [en]: I saw this city

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Sandra tells about her initial difficulties in the United States and how, realizing she wouldn't get very far without knowing English, she learned it on her own. Starting from a humble job in the restaurant industry, she quickly grew professionally.

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Caption 20 [it]: Cioè, ho visto tante persone,
Caption 20 [en]: I mean, I saw a lot of people,

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Not only are Armando's photographs reminiscent of the universe and nature — they also recall other works of art from history.

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Caption 3 [it]: noi, eh, abbiamo visto un viaggio che,
Caption 3 [en]: we, uh, we've seen a journey that,

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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 30 [it]: perché ha già visto tutto e si annoia facilmente.
Caption 30 [en]: because it has already seen everything and gets bored easily.

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Armando tells us how the designs he is fascinated by come to be. It all has to do with billboards, and how they are marked up, torn, and over time, oxidized. The oxidation process is fascinating.

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Caption 29 [it]: Abbiamo visto come l'inizio della degenerazione
Caption 29 [en]: We have seen how the beginning of the degeneration

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Little by little, we discover Armando's fascination with oxidation. It seems to have started by looking at advertising billboards.

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Caption 43 [it]: io ho visto delle immagini
Caption 43 [en]: I saw some images

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Che tempo che fa - Raffaella Carrà - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Fabio Fazio gives Raffaella Carrà a great sendoff, replete with majorettes and a legendary marching band from a Milan district.

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Caption 31 [it]: Pazza pazza pazza su una terrazza -Hai visto, mi sono messa il caschetto come te.
Caption 31 [en]: Crazy, crazy, crazy on a terrace -Did you see how I have a bob like yours?

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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 57 [it]: Non l'avevi mai vista? -Mai visto.
Caption 57 [en]: You hadn't ever seen it? -Never seen it.

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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 35 [it]: tutto in mezzo, avete visto che personaggi? -Come no.
Caption 35 [en]: all in the middle, did you see what characters? -For sure.

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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 14 [it]: Un pubblico giocherellone. -Hai visto, finalmente.
Caption 14 [en]: A playful audience. -You see, finally.

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Antonella - La mia storia - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Antonella talks about her work history, at first in the family business, and later for an American corporation in the cosmetics industry.

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Caption 39 [it]: ma semplicemente perché avevo visto.
Caption 39 [en]: but simply because I had observed.

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Alessandra Mastronardi - Non smettere di sognare

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

After the huge success of the television series, I Cesaroni, Alessandra Mastronardi is the star of Don’t Stop Dreaming, where she plays the part of an aspiring dancer. In an interview for starlit.tv! she talks about the very different personalities of the two characters, as well as her own.

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Caption 47 [it]: cosa può fare Eva, visto che più o meno ha fatto tutto,
Caption 47 [en]: what Eva can do, since more or less she's done it all,

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his experiences in Paris, learning from the chefs there. Actually, he already knew much of what was taught to him, because he'd had chefs in his family who were well-versed in both every day and fancy fare. He, on the other hand, was looking for something new and different.

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Caption 13 [it]: e quando facevano le c'... le feste, le cose importanti, ho visto fare...
Caption 13 [en]: and when they'd have din'... parties, important things, I saw them make...

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