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Adriano - Battesimo di Philip - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Adriano has invited us to the baptism of his son Philip. It allows us to get a glimpse of one of the most beautiful places to visit in Palermo, the Palatine Chapel. The priest tells the congregation about the consecration of this famous basilica in 1040.

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Caption 21 [it]: con tutti i nostri parenti, festeggeremo questo giorno importante
Caption 21 [en]: With all our relatives, we'll celebrate this important day

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 1 - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

There's one contestant left, but the questions keep on coming.

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Caption 48 [it]: E da Salerno, già saranno [ci saranno] da qualche giorno, no,
Caption 48 [en]: And in Salerno, there must be, already for a couple of days, now, right?

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Schools in fascist Italy banned the study of dialects and moved to using standardized textbooks. The fascist hymn “Viva Adua nostra” refers to a battle won by the Kingdom of Italy in 1896 near Adwa, Ethiopia.

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Caption 3 [it]: E se restava [toscano: fosse rimasta] ancora qualche giorno,
Caption 3 [en]: And if he'd stayed on a few more days,

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 1 - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Sara, an attractive girl from the province of Perugia, is up next. In the pairing game, she has to determine whether a traditional dish is cooked or raw.

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Caption 21 [it]: Cioè, non c'avete il giorno nel quale vi siete... -No, perché
Caption 21 [en]: That is, you don't have one day in which you... -No, because

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 1 - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

L'Eredità [Inheritance] is an immensely popular daily quiz show on the RAI [pronounced rye], the Italian public TV and radio network. This episode benefits the Telethon Foundation, which provides funds for research into genetic diseases, and is based on Jerry Lewis's Telethon. To understand the play on words they use at a certain point, see the various meanings of macchina here. Learn more about this Italian game show here.

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Caption 4 [it]: Ben arrivati anche oggi a L'Eredità, come sempre, come ogni giorno,
Caption 4 [en]: Welcome to “Inheritance,” today, too, as always, like every day

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 3 [it]: Sciascia era molto amico mio, ci vedevamo quasi ogni giorno.
Caption 3 [en]: Sciascia was a very good friend of mine, we saw each other almost every day.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

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Caption 27 [it]: È un'umanità sofferente quella che incontra ogni giorno Pitrè,
Caption 27 [en]: It is a suffering humanity, the one Pitrè encounters every day,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.

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Caption 72 [it]: Ca jornu dopu jornu pari ca s'alluntana [che sembra allontanarsi giorno dopo giorno]
Caption 72 [en]: Which seems to distance itself day by day

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.

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Caption 90 [it]: Un giorno del milleottocentosessantasei, durante una battaglia garibaldina,
Caption 90 [en]: One day in eighteen sixty-six, during a Garibaldian battle,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.

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Caption 36 [it]: Un jorno [Un giorno], un ricco castellano,
Caption 36 [en]: One day, a rich manor lord,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè was an ethnologist who collected documents pertaining to Sicily and its culture and traditions. His work is the basis for this documentary, which unites live footage, drawings, and archival documents.

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Caption 11 [it]: e ricordo un giorno di festa:
Caption 11 [en]: and I remember a holiday:

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That's Italy - Episode 1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Silvano Lattanzi, from the Marches region of Italy, makes shoes to be worn by heads of state and celebrities. The shoes are carefully handcrafted and can cost up to five thousand euros a pair.

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Caption 16 [it]: Qui, nel giugno del sessantuno... ho svolto il mio primo giorno di lavoro.
Caption 16 [en]: Here, in June of sixty-one... I carried out my first day of work.

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Napoli - Lanificio25

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy Neapolitan

Pupia tv presents the “Lanificio25”, a multipurpose space in Naples devoted to the arts and performing arts. There you will find all kinds of music, theater, dance, exhibitions, and workshops.

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Caption 10 [it]: Cioè abbiamo un giorno che è il venerdì che è dedicato quasi esclusivamente alla musica live.
Caption 10 [en]: I mean, there's one day, which is Friday, that is dedicated, almost exclusively, to live music.

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