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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Sandra now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in North Carolina. She is still working and loves it. She and Marika discuss some Italian expressions about the value of work and about how their friendship has lasted all these years.

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Caption 41 [it]: E insomma...
Caption 41 [en]: And basically...

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The story of Sandra continues, a restaurateur in Miami, chosen to cook at a White House event for Barack Obama. Between initial disbelief and rigorous security checks, the experience becomes a source of great pride for her. The story also highlights the value of friendship and the importance of reinventing oneself in life.

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Caption 8 [it]: che, che, insomma, che, che davano una buona quota
Caption 8 [en]: who, who, who, who gave a good sum

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Ritratti - Fabiola Gianotti - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Fabiola Gianotti's account retraces a serious technical incident that affects a major scientific experiment, the initial shock and the subsequent recovery. In parallel, her personal reflections and the strong emotions linked to the responsibility of leading the project emerge.

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Caption 58 [it]: insomma, a, a fare bella figura".
Caption 58 [en]: in short, to, to make a good impression."

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Ritratti - Fabiola Gianotti - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In the video Renzo Piano and Fabiola tell about CERN as a symbol of the cultural and scientific rebirth of the post-war period. Through personal memories and everyday dialogues, CERN emerges as a place of human and international encounter, founded on curiosity, peaceful collaboration and love for knowledge.

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Caption 11 [it]: Insomma c'è... c'è... c'è una cosa
Caption 11 [en]: In short, there is... there is... there is something

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Ritratti - Fabiola Gianotti - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Fabiola Gianotti here tells the story of how her passion for physics was born: from the influence of a great teacher and from reading Marie Curie's biography, to choosing physics as a fundamental discipline and arriving at CERN, experienced as an extraordinary place for scientific research.

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Caption 54 [it]: il paradiso, insomma.
Caption 54 [en]: paradise, in short.

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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 15 [it]: Quindi, insomma, è...
Caption 15 [en]: So, in short, it's...

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.

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Caption 12 [it]: perché mi pare troppo, però insomma,
Caption 12 [en]: because it seems too much to me, but in short,

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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 16 [it]: è l'humus in cui si è formata la... sì, la mia narrativa, insomma.
Caption 16 [en]: it's the humus in which my narrative was formed, basically.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Leaving the outskirts of Rome, Annalena goes to a middle-class neighborhood where she meets professor and writer, Alessandro Piperno. He talks about what it was like growing up there and about his identity as a writer.

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Caption 48 [it]: e quindi, insomma, crescere qua
Caption 48 [en]: and so, in short, growing up here

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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 29 [it]: per chiedere, insomma, se...
Caption 29 [en]: to ask, basically, if...

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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 8 [it]: Insomma, esistono o no i veri romani?
Caption 8 [en]: In short, do real Romans exist or not?

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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 21 [it]: Eh, insomma, no.
Caption 21 [en]: Uh, basically, no.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Elena seems charmed by the orphans and Giuseppe explains to her that love has many pathways. At home, it becomes clear that Nina and Giuseppe have grave financial difficulties. He won't give up seeing patients, but comes up with an idea.

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Caption 33 [it]: fatti dare la tariffa intera delle visite, insomma. -Ho capito.
Caption 33 [en]: make them give you the entire fee for the examinations, in short. -I understand.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We discover that Margherita Hack was a devoted fan of the long-running TV series, Un posto al sole [a place in the sun]. She explains why. Francesca goes back to Trieste and meets up with Eda who talks about having lived in the same house with Margherita Hack.

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Caption 61 [it]: Be', poi, sì, insomma, lei, al di là, so che aveva un rapporto molto... -Sì.
Caption 61 [en]: Well, besides, yes, basically, she, beyond that, I know that she had a relationship that was very... -Yes.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Perhaps not everyone knows that Margherita Hack as a girl was quite the athlete. Her sport was track and field. She also had a passion for cycling and rode her bike well into her seventies.

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Caption 20 [it]: insomma, mi ha chiesto quale sport preferivo.
Caption 20 [en]: basically, she asked me what sport I liked best.

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