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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 12

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.

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Caption 37 [it]: benché intorno ci sia una stupenda macchia mediterranea.
Caption 37 [en]: even though there is wonderful Mediterranean scrub around it.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 11

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.

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Caption 44 [it]: sia da difendere con lo stesso accanimento,
Caption 44 [en]: is to be protected with the same tenacity,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.

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Caption 2 [it]: Penso che il divorzio sia necessario per una coppia,
Caption 2 [en]: I think divorce is necessary for a couple,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 9

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.

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Caption 63 [it]: Io dico più presto che sia possibile.
Caption 63 [en]: I say as soon as possible.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.

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Caption 39 [it]: sia perché già nell'infanzia
Caption 39 [en]: whether because already in your childhood,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 3

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about the Italian language and how it has been transformed over the years.

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Caption 36 [it]: Bene, questo Lei trova che sia migliore, diciamo,
Caption 36 [en]: Well, this one you think is better, let's say,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

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Arcangelo and Sister Helga don't like each other much, but they have to work together to save the patient. At home, at lunch, Giuseppe has a strange feeling and rushes off.

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Caption 79 [it]: Sanctificétur Nomen Tuum [latino: Sia santificato il tuo nome]
Caption 79 [en]: Sanctificétur Nomen Tuum [Latin: Hallowed be thy name]

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

When Moscati arrives home, he has a huge surprise waiting for him: an endless stream of poor people. At the hospital, Sister Helga catches Arcangelo with a nurse and is furious.

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Caption 53 [it]: No, ma io non credo che Arcangelo sia in grado... -Io penso proprio di sì.
Caption 53 [en]: No, but I don't think that Arcangelo is capable... -I really think he is.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.

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Caption 2 [it]: sia scientifica ma particolarmente anche umanistica, artistica
Caption 2 [en]: both scientific but particularly humanistic, artistic, as well,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Giuseppe stays late at work, which he is not allowed to do, and he gets an unusual visitor.

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Caption 5 [it]: Mi raccomando, che sia la prima e l'ultima volta,
Caption 5 [en]: Make sure that it's the first and last time,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Moscati has to prove himself at the exam, to demonstrate whether he is just presumptuous or can back it up by knowing what to do with the patient before him. His friend Piromallo waits for him outside, meanwhile.

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Caption 32 [it]: Sempre che Lei si sia ripreso a sufficienza. -Professore.
Caption 32 [en]: Provided you have recovered sufficiently. -Professor.

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.

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Caption 54 [it]: sia in luogo pubblico che aperto al pubblico,
Caption 54 [en]: both in a public place and in one open to the public,

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Soon after the introduction of talkies, dubbing came about in the thirties. Dubbing was extremely popular in Italy and remains so today.

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Caption 16 [it]: Poiché tutti sanno cosa sia il doppiaggio,
Caption 16 [en]: Inasmuch as everyone knows what dubbing is,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.

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Caption 67 [it]: sia, secondo me la, la cosa più importante.
Caption 67 [en]: is according to me the, the most important thing.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.

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Caption 52 [it]: non credo che sia una cosa, semplicemente, legata alla devozione religiosa,
Caption 52 [en]: I don't think it's something just tied to religious devotion,

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