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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 8 [it]: che era appunto una delle scuole
Caption 8 [en]: which was precisely one of the schools

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella recounts her deep and complex bond with Naples, a city that is all about language, identity, and memory. Through Almarina, a Naples that is 'wonderful and terrible' emerges, but also a place of freedom, growth, and hope.

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Caption 75 [it]: però anche perché, appunto,
Caption 75 [en]: but also because, precisely,

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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 24 [it]: sei ritornata più volte, appunto, in Toscana. -Sono...
Caption 24 [en]: you came back to Tuscany several times, in fact. -I...

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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 4 [it]: perché sicuramente all'epoca, appunto,
Caption 4 [en]: because surely at the time, as you were saying,

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Professioni e mestieri - Matteo - pianista collaboratore - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Matteo tells us how fundamental it is to know the entire score, not just one's own part, in order to best interpret a piece. For him, music is above all education in listening: to the composer, to other musicians, and to oneself. Playing together thus becomes an experience of growth and mutual care, even before it becomes artistic.

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Caption 24 [it]: Così, forse, appunto, come dicevo,
Caption 24 [en]: So, perhaps, just as I was saying,

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Professioni e mestieri - Matteo - pianista collaboratore - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Sometimes the accompanist has to follow the soloist's musical intentions, but at other times, when the musician is not very experienced, the accompanist needs to guide the soloist and make the best of a potentially tricky musical situation. This depends on the musical and technical level of the soloist, as well as the experience and maturity of the accompanist.

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Caption 9 [it]: di un, appunto, di un evento,
Caption 9 [en]: of a, precisely, of an event,

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Professioni e mestieri - Matteo - pianista collaboratore - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pianist Matteo Bogazzi explains what his job — pianista collaboratore (collaborating pianist) is all about, and how he got there. The interview took place during a chamber music festival and summer course in Lucca, where he was working.

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Caption 68 [it]: insieme a quello, appunto, della...
Caption 68 [en]: together with that, as I said, of...

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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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