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Anna presenta - Giuseppe Ungaretti - Natale

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Natale è alle porte e fare gli auguri è semplice, ma anche scontato. Il Natale perde sempre di più il suo significato e diventa solo un inno al consumismo. Anna ci manda una cartolina di Natale speciale e ci ricorda, in fondo, che la magia di questa festa ci seguirà per sempre. Legge una poesia del grande poeta italiano Giuseppe Ungaretti, scritta a Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916.

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Enel intervista - Tiziano Ferro - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Tiziano Ferro dà il via al suo eco-tour “L’amore è una cosa semplice 2012” sponsorizzato da Enel. In questo video esorta tutti ad adottare piccole abitudini “verdi” per la tutela dell’ambiente. Perché in fondo anche questo è semplice!

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

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Caption 34 [it]: anche l'estate, in fondo, e mi diceva che
Caption 34 [en]: also in the summer, all in all, and he would tell me that

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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 49 [it]: Dimmi qualcosa che ti piace di Roma, che in fondo hai scelto.
Caption 49 [en]: Tell me something of what you like about Rome, which, in the end, you chose.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.

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Caption 66 [it]: È andata a fondo, nei suoi libri,
Caption 66 [en]: She delved deeply, in her books,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Elena explains her health problem to Giuseppe and they also clarify some personal things. Giuseppe then takes her to a special place in the city.

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Caption 41 [it]: In fondo la vita non è così ingiusta.
Caption 41 [en]: In the end, life is not that unjust.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.

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Caption 14 [it]: di giocare a soldati, in fondo.
Caption 14 [en]: to play at being soldiers, all in all.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini doesn't feel like she made any sacrifices in her life, including not having a family. She had a clear vision of what she wanted out of life, and she followed it.

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Caption 51 [it]: E le cose programmate andavano fino in fondo tutte quante.
Caption 51 [en]: And every last one of the planned things went all the way to the end.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Both Giuseppe and Giorgio take the exam for the available position. They each have to diagnose a patient and the examination board isn't kind to either of them.

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Caption 29 [it]: In fondo, quello che è successo
Caption 29 [en]: At the end of the day, what happened

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini felt that imagination was the "secret sauce" of her research. And this encouraged her to turn to young people, who have plenty of imagination. She didn't hesitate to teach kids of junior high school age, which came as a surprise to some people, since she was a winner of the Nobel prize.

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Caption 33 [it]: questa saltella, sa'... e a un certo punto arriva in fondo...
Caption 33 [en]: This skips, sk'... and at a certain point it reaches the endpoint...

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L'Oriana - film - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Lisa's goal in meeting with Oriana is an interview, which Oriana clearly does not want to give. But she tells about when she was a ruthless interviewer herself, in both Italy and the U.S.

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Caption 63 [it]: Ma in fondo con me non lo sono mai stati.
Caption 63 [en]: But at heart, they never were that way with me.

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L'Oriana - film - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Oriana Fallaci was a famous journalist, writer, and activist. This biopic starring Vittoria Puccini recounts some aspects and episodes of her multi-faceted life. See the trailer here, or, if you're not yet a Yabla subscriber, see it on YouTube.

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Caption 5 [it]: [Realizzato con il sostegno della Regione Lazio] [Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 5 [en]: [Created with the support of the Lazio Region] [Regional Fund for Cinema and Audiovisuals]

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Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Olivetti siblings have to decide whether to sell a stake in the factory or not. During the discussion, Paola arrives with the children.

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Caption 19 [it]: Qui va bene? -In fondo.
Caption 19 [en]: Is here all right? -At the back.

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We can see that the battle against using "Lei," the common, formal, second-person form of address, was taken very seriously by the fascists. In fact they went too far when it came to a popular women's magazine called "Lei" (she, her).

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Caption 18 [it]: Ma poi il nostro sguardo cadde su qualche cosa di grandioso che si ergeva in fondo.
Caption 18 [en]: But then our gaze fell on something very grandiose that rose in the background.

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment looks at how Mussolini patterned his fiercely nationalist rhetoric after poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, while harkening back to the glory of Imperial Rome. The song in the segment refers to Balilla, an 18th century Genoese boy. In 1746, Balilla threw a stone at an Austrian official of the occupying Hapsburg Empire, which led to the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Caption 29 [it]: che attinge il fondo della coscienza di un popolo
Caption 29 [en]: which tapped into the depths of the conscience of the people

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