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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella talks about her relationship with Naples and her way of writing about it, based on direct observation and listening to people, far from the usual stereotypes. Her writing stems from an "intermediate" point of view, close to everyday reality.

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Caption 3 [it]: La sua passione aumenta giorno dopo giorno
Caption 3 [en]: Her passion increases day by day

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The documentary follows journalist Annalena Benini on a journey through Italy discovering writers in the places that shaped them. The first stop is Naples, told through Valeria Parrella: an intense and complex city, where landscape, memory and daily life intertwine with literature and the identity of authors.

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Caption 46 [it]: si nutre ogni giorno.
Caption 46 [en]: nourishes herself every day.

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

During an important evening at the Washington, D.C. restaurant where Sandra was the dining room manager, the usual chef didn't show, and Sandra found herself having to manage the kitchen as well. She had no experience there, and so it was somewhat of a disaster. The episode pushed her to learn, however: Thanks to the help of an expert cook, she began an apprenticeship, acquired skills, and started building a career bringing Italian cuisine to the United States.

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Caption 39 [it]: andai in cucina il giorno dopo
Caption 39 [en]: I went into the kitchen the next day

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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 19 [it]: e tornare a lavorare il giorno dopo.
Caption 19 [en]: and go back to work the next day.

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Sandra was born in the province of Pisa and tells the story of her personal transformation. She begins at the beginning, when she was a young girl growing up in Cascina, a town near Pisa. But she wasn't happy and felt like a fish out of water.

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Caption 50 [it]: E un bel giorno sono andata a,
Caption 50 [en]: And one fine day, I went to,

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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 20 [it]: pur di non ritrovarti un giorno invischiato
Caption 20 [en]: so as not to find yourself entangled one day

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania Mazzucco grew up in a part of Rome on the outskirts, not the part people usually associate with the beautiful city. The white Fiat 500 her father bought for the family became an important part of her life.

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Caption 6 [it]: Così Melania descrive la borgata di Torrevecchia in "Un giorno perfetto".
Caption 6 [en]: This is how Melania describes the village of Torrevecchia in "A perfect day."

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania talks about her relationship with her father when he was still alive. He didn't say much, but unbeknownst to her, tried to get a story of hers published. She talks about one her favorite parts of Rome: Isola Tiberina (Tiber Island), the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome.

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Caption 41 [it]: un giorno Sandro Veronesi mi chiese se io avevo scritto un racconto
Caption 41 [en]: one day Sandro Veronesi asked me if I had written a story

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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 4 [it]: in cui la protagonista fa ogni giorno, per dieci minuti,
Caption 4 [en]: in which the protagonist does, for ten minutes every day,

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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 2

Difficulty: Adv Beginner

Italy

The 3 highschool kids tell us more about their types of schools and the subjects they are taking. Two of them give younger students some advice.

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Caption 59 [it]: Ti piacerebbe un giorno essere tu prof della tua classe?
Caption 59 [en]: Would you like, one day, to be the teacher of your class?

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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 107 [it]: e il giorno dopo, insomma,
Caption 107 [en]: and the next day, in short,

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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 26 [it]: Io penso il giorno dopo, di solito.
Caption 26 [en]: I think the following day, usually.

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Giuseppe Ungaretti - Intervista - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ettore Della Giovanna, noted Italian journalist (1912-2004), interviews Giuseppe Ungaretti, considered one of the greatest poets of his time, besides having been a writer and scholar.

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Caption 47 [it]: noi tutti ci lamentiamo ogni giorno dell'invadenza del materialismo,
Caption 47 [en]: we all complain every day of the intrusiveness of materialism,

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