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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

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Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.

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Caption 8 [it]: che era appunto una delle scuole
Caption 8 [en]: which was precisely one of the schools

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella recounts her deep and complex bond with Naples, a city that is all about language, identity, and memory. Through Almarina, a Naples that is 'wonderful and terrible' emerges, but also a place of freedom, growth, and hope.

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Caption 75 [it]: però anche perché, appunto,
Caption 75 [en]: but also because, precisely,

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The story of Sandra continues, a Tuscan chef who emigrated to the United States, who established herself in Miami with authentic Tuscan cuisine. Thanks to her continuous ties with Italy, she keeps her roots alive, even cooking for Barack Obama.

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Caption 24 [it]: sei ritornata più volte, appunto, in Toscana. -Sono...
Caption 24 [en]: you came back to Tuscany several times, in fact. -I...

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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 4 [it]: perché sicuramente all'epoca, appunto,
Caption 4 [en]: because surely at the time, as you were saying,

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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 36 [it]: Io, appunto, da bravo ragazzo ebreo,
Caption 36 [en]: As a good Jewish boy, as I was saying,

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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 21 [it]: E infatti ci sono de li casi perché [romanesco: dei casi in cui], appunto, si ammazzano,
Caption 21 [en]: And in fact there are cases in which, indeed, they kill each other,

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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 37 [it]: Posso benissimo trovarla, appunto,
Caption 37 [en]: I can very easily find it, indeed,

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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 38 [it]: perché ci abitavano, appunto, le persone che lavoravano al porto,
Caption 38 [en]: due to the people who lived there, indeed, those who worked at the port,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Pasolini is asked what he thinks about progress and development. He is also asked about the inspiration he seems to have taken from subjects of the New Testament of the Bible.

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Caption 8 [it]: perché, appunto perché non sono un sociologo o un professore,
Caption 8 [en]: because, precisely because I am not a sociologist or a professor,

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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 45 [it]: quella paura di avere, appunto, una totale...
Caption 45 [en]: that fear of having, indeed, a total...

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

In this segment, we're on the set with Pasolini as he shouts directions to Totò through his megaphone, and at the same time discusses the shoot with his crew. Naturally, authenticity often means people speak over each other, so it's hard to understand what is said. Then, Pasolini is asked by a journalist about his views on neorealism and here, the speech is clearer (and interesting), so don't give up!

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Caption 7 [it]: A meno che non abbia sbagliato la macchina. -Appunto, è quello il pericolo,
Caption 7 [en]: Unless the camera made a mistake. -Exactly, that's the danger,

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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 60 [it]: E mentre Vita appunto cominciava a mangiare,
Caption 60 [en]: And while Vita, as I mentioned, started eating,

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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 50 [it]: perché, appunto, io non avendo mai vissuto con mio padre,
Caption 50 [en]: because, exactly, never having lived with my father,

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.

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Caption 14 [it]: appunto, fino a novant'anni.
Caption 14 [en]: indeed, up to ninety years of age.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eda discovered Margherita Hack on a TV show hosted by Piero Angela. This changed Eda's life. Margherita as a young scientist had a rough time in a profession where men were the important ones and had little regard for women.

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Caption 12 [it]: e in particolare, appunto, nell'astronomia.
Caption 12 [en]: and in particular, precisely, in astronomy.

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