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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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: difficulty - Intermediate 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: difficulty - Intermediate 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: difficulty - Intermediate 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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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced 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 19 [it]: Lei, insomma, vorrebbe che in Italia
Caption 19 [en]: In short, you would like it if in Italy
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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 7

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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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3:55

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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 33 [it]: Eccolo qui. -Bene. -Beh, insomma è passato un po' di tempo.
Caption 33 [en]: Here it is. -Great. -Well, for sure, it's been a while.
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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about how artists are always controversial. They are a living protest. His protest involves language and national identity.
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Caption 5 [it]: a ciò che è nazionale, a ciò che, insomma,
Caption 5 [en]: to what is national, to what, in short,
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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

This documentary opens with some lines from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, “10 giugno” from 1962. The famous filmmaker and poet talks about his life, beginning with his troubled relationship with his father.
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Caption 28 [it]: spiegherebbe Freud, insomma, meglio di me
Caption 28 [en]: that Freud would explain, in short, better than me
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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 16

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate 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: difficulty - Intermediate 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: difficulty - Intermediate 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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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 5

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Our narrator describes what it was like working on the set of La porta del cielo (the Gates of Heaven): the extras, the dangers, the boredom, and the strategies for keeping the cast and crew safe. He also explains how they reconstructed the railway carriages that are featured so prominently in the film.
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Caption 14 [it]: Insomma, sotterranei come questi,
Caption 14 [en]: In short, basements like these,
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