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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Campania

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Today, Anna is playing with fire because she has to describe the very region her teacher is from. Anna knows her subject pretty well, but so does her teacher. Who will triumph?

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Caption 56 [it]: ho scelto di parlare della mozzarella di bufala campana, appunto,
Caption 56 [en]: I have chosen to talk about the Campanian buffalo mozzarella, indeed,

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sul Molise

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Nobody in the class volunteers to talk about the Molise region, but by chance, Anna gets called on. And we get to learn all about this small region.

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Caption 52 [it]: Qui abbiamo una pasta importante che si chiama appunto la molisana.
Caption 52 [en]: Here, we have an important kind of pasta that is called, logically, "la Molisana."

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Marika spiega - Oggetti in ufficio

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika shows us what materials she uses in her small home office. Whether you work or go to school, these terms will come in handy.

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Caption 9 [it]: e selezionare, appunto, alcuni oggetti che sono nel computer,
Caption 9 [en]: and select, indeed, some items that are on on the computer,

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sul Piemonte

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

The teacher has a different look today, as she quizzes Anna about the Piedmont region of Italy. Anna tries to get on the good side of her irritable maestra.

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Caption 17 [it]: che significa, appunto, ai piedi dei monti,
Caption 17 [en]: which means, just that, at the foot of the mountains,

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulle Marche

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

We're going to school to learn about The Marches, the only Italian region to have a plural name! Let's find out if Anna has studied this time! Let's see how mean her maestra is today, too.

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Caption 72 [it]: Ad Ancona c'è il porto, perché, appunto, [è] sul mare.
Caption 72 [en]: In Ancona there's a harbor, because, in fact, it's on the sea.

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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi di modo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.

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Caption 53 [it]: Quindi velocissimo. Il tempo di battere, appunto, l'occhio così.
Caption 53 [en]: Meaning very quickly. The time it takes to blink, just that, your eye, like this.

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Marika spiega - L'insalata di pasta - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Here's a summer recipe that uses simple but good ingredients.

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Caption 25 [it]: Si chiama appu'... appunto insalatiera
Caption 25 [en]: It's called just that, a salad bowl

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Marika spiega - I verbi venire e andare - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika continues with her lesson on the crucial verbs, andare [to go] and venire [to come], and provides many useful examples.

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Caption 36 [it]: E Sara usa il verbo "venire" perché al cinema, appunto, ci vado anche io.
Caption 36 [en]: And Sara uses the verb “venire“ because, indeed, I'm also going to the movies.

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Marika spiega - Il verbo venire - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika continues her lesson on the all-important verb venire [to come], providing many useful examples of its use.

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Caption 24 [it]: eh, e dalla quale il prete fa, appunto, la predica,
Caption 24 [en]: and from which the priest, indeed, gives a sermon,

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Marika spiega - I verbi transitivi

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.

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Caption 67 [it]: dove parlerò appunto dei verbi intransitivi [e] di qualche eccezione.
Caption 67 [en]: where I will speak, indeed, about intransitive verbs and about a few exceptions.

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Marika spiega - La formazione dei contrari

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.

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Caption 9 [it]: per creare appunto parole nuove di significato opposto a quello originario.
Caption 9 [en]: to create, as I was saying, new words with a meaning opposite to the original one.

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Marika spiega - I segni dello Zodiaco - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Whether or not you take stock in astrology, Marika gives you plenty of new vocabulary for talking about personality, while describing the characteristics attributed to the first three signs of the zodiac: Aries, Taurus and Gemini.

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Caption 46 [it]: e di... appunto apprendere tutto.
Caption 46 [en]: and to... exactly, to learn everything.

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Anna e Marika - Il verbo avere - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika and Anna present the verb avere (to have) in the subjunctive mood, which, in Italian, as you'll see, is used when the word che is used as a conjunction. This mood has practically disappeared from the English language.

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Caption 8 [it]: ma sono appunto fatti vostri, sono d'accordo.
Caption 8 [en]: well it's indeed your business, I agree.

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Marika spiega - L'abbigliamento - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

What would you wear if you had to do sports, go to the beach, or if it were cold? Marika teaches you the names for items of clothing, as well as an Italian saying on the subject.

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Caption 11 [it]: indossare, appunto, anche dei pantaloni o delle gonne un po' più leggere,
Caption 11 [en]: wear, indeed, slightly lighter pants or skirts as well,

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Marika spiega - I veicoli

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika takes us to Rome, and talks about all the different ways we can get around--trains, scooters, and even hydrofoils.

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Caption 12 [it]: appunto quindi scooter e automobili,
Caption 12 [en]: meaning, therefore, scooters and cars,

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