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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 36 [it]: Io, appunto, da bravo ragazzo ebreo,
Caption 36 [en]: As a good Jewish boy, as I was saying,

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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 38 [it]: perché ci abitavano, appunto, le persone che lavoravano al porto,
Caption 38 [en]: due to the people who lived there, indeed, those who worked at the port,

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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 45 [it]: quella paura di avere, appunto, una totale...
Caption 45 [en]: that fear of having, indeed, a total...

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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 15 [it]: come, appunto, queste cose. E...
Caption 15 [en]: such as, for example, these things. And...

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Armando Casali - Ossidazioni, Cose dell'altro mondo - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, describing chapters 3 - 6, we can imagine storms, volcanoes, oceans, and mountains in Armando's photographs.

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Caption 33 [it]: rappresenta, appunto, l'oceano.
Caption 33 [en]: it depicts, indeed, the ocean.

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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 60 [it]: E mentre Vita appunto cominciava a mangiare,
Caption 60 [en]: And while Vita, as I mentioned, started eating,

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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 18 [it]: e inizia un processo, appunto l'ossidazione.
Caption 18 [en]: and begins a process, exactly that: oxidation.

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Professioni e mestieri - Erica - archeologa - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

Erica studied English at school, but was lucky enough, during high school, to travel to a country where English was spoken every day. That's where she learned the most, by living and breathing it.

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Caption 37 [it]: la mia, la mia cultura, riguardante, appunto, la, l'inglese
Caption 37 [en]: my, my culture, regarding, just that, English,

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Professioni e mestieri - Erica - archeologa - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Erica describes one of the workshops she does for kids. It's all about learning how prehistoric man made fire from materials found in nature. Stay tuned for a practical demonstration of this!

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Caption 13 [it]: L'archeologia sperimentale è, appunto, lo dice la parola stessa, sperimentare
Caption 13 [en]: Experimental archeology is precisely, as the word itself says, "to experience

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Professioni e mestieri - Erica - archeologa - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

Erica, from a small city in Tuscany, talks about her great passion: archeology. She has been lucky enough to be able to combine this passion with another one — tourism – in her current job.

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Caption 51 [it]: che sono, appunto, la... eh, il turismo e l'archeologia
Caption 51 [en]: which are, indeed, tourism and archeology

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Erica e Martina - La nostra amicizia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Erica and Martina talk about their friendship, which started in the first year of high school and continues today.

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Caption 4 [it]: ci siamo conosciute, appunto, sei anni fa,
Caption 4 [en]: We met, in fact, six years ago,

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Noemi Bossolo in arte Sylia - in arte Sylia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Sicilian

Noemi Bossolo is an aspiring singer from Marsala, Sicily. She sings some lines from her favorite songs, and is joined by her parents, who speak about her training.

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Caption 64 [it]: Non avevo questo, questo nome, appunto.
Caption 64 [en]: I didn't have this, this name, actually.

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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 21 [it]: e di... appunto, di Berlino e di Potsdam su...
Caption 21 [en]: and of... indeed, in Berlin and in Potsdam on...

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Arianna e Marika - Il lavoro di doppiatrice

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika interviews Arianna Manetti, the professional voice-over artist and dubber who narrates the fairy tales featured on Yabla.

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Caption 16 [it]: Questo è fondamentale quando ci si trova appunto nello studio di doppiaggio
Caption 16 [en]: This is fundamental when you find yourself, in fact, in the dubbing studio

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Francesca Vitalini - Fare la giornalista pubblicista - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Francesca Vitalini describes her training in journalism and her work for a newspaper in Garbatella, a neighborhood of Rome.

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Caption 43 [it]: e per, appunto, una, una rivista online.
Caption 43 [en]: and for, in fact, a, an online magazine.

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