Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Interviewing the husband of the deceased was uncomfortable, since there were delicate questions to ask. Back at headquarters, Luca learns whether or not it was his hair on the pillow, and Marta has some insights that make the others roll their eyes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This segment features Melfi, a city at the base of Mount Vulture, where Frederick the Second of Swabia spent a number of years.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Soon after the introduction of talkies, dubbing came about in the thirties. Dubbing was extremely popular in Italy and remains so today.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Neither Eva nor her friends are happy with how Ferranti had treated Mister Umberto. Eva's friends come up with an idea.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this video Anna and Marika show us how to cook the famous pasta dish named after the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini. The ingredients are few and simple, but there are some norms to stick with. ;)
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Adriano and his mother show us how to make this Sicilian summer specialty. It's easy to make, but there is one important secret.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Marta goes for a ride on Luca's motorcycle as they look for a mysterious South American barman. Ginevra meets Marta and seems to like her a lot.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A visit to the restaurant puts Eva in a foul mood. But she still gets together with her girlfriends to plan a caper.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carlo quizzes all the contestants on such varied topics as the existence of a Renaissance-era ostrich egg globe and the healthiness of ricin (it's deadly).
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika completes the recipe for "pasta alla Norma," and serves it up. It's evident that Anna thinks it's real good, too. In fact, she describes it as troppo buono (too good), a typical colloquial way to say "very, very good."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A young university student tells us about her interests as a kid, how her ideas changed as she grew up, and what her dream is.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara isn't around, but her presence is felt by everyone, in different ways. And they all want to know how Luca is feeling about it, but he's a closed book and just focuses on the case.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Archeological Park of Venosa is the highlight of this segment. We see the building projects of Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror of southern Italy and Sicily.
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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