Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In chapter. 7, Armando describes how, to him, his images represent vegetation, woodlands, trees, and flowers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, describing chapters 3 - 6, we can imagine storms, volcanoes, oceans, and mountains in Armando's photographs.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Armando begins describing the structure of his book, and talks about how he envisions a kind of journey, beginning in the far reaches of the universe, down to the tiny details of a flower.
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.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Little by little, we discover Armando's fascination with oxidation. It seems to have started by looking at advertising billboards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Fabio Fazio gives Raffaella Carrà a great sendoff, replete with majorettes and a legendary marching band from a Milan district.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this part of the interview, Raffaella Carrà tells about how her grandmother helped her become the queen of Italian television.
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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