Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Eva visits an old friend, and then goes to the market with Dante for fish. She's certainly more at ease with one than with the other.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela, in the first part of a two-part series, shows us how to express need in a personal way with the noun bisogno [need].
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The contestants face another round robin of questions, this time regarding four specific years. It's a great chance to practice those long, one-word numbers Italians use.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca Manara and Marta Rivera are both curious about each other. But Marta has better luck. Manara and Toscani go to see the victim's husband, who learns some things about his wife he hadn't been aware of.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment features Acerenza and its 11th century cathedral, which was built over pagan and Early Christian constructions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Because of her concerns about Dante, Eva ends up being a bit hard on her son.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna is quizzed on Sardinia and can easily identify the capital and its major cities, its nuraghes (characteristic low towers), its cantu a tenore (traditional singing), but comes up short on providing the name of a typical Sardinian dish.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano visits a Palermo antique dealer, Massimo Sgroi, who also exhibits the work of contemporary artists. Sgroi invites Yabla friends to submit work.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Nineteen-year-old Martina tells us about herself. Her dreams have changed over the years, and she now has some concrete, long-term, and clearcut goals.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Officers Barbagallo and Buttafuoco get some good evidence, but Manara doesn't quite appreciate their guessing-game humor. He goes to question the new suspect.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After all that planning, it's time to act. The girls are incredulous at Eva's professional know-how.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Daniela continues her lesson on necessity or need, providing examples with an impersonal subject. In English the impersonal can be expressed with "one" in the third person: "one needs," or by using the passive voice:"Something needs to be done." And in informal speech, we might use "you" or "we.": "you need to..."
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Laura joins Carlo in questioning the contestants about animal traits in this elimination round.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Little by little some of the suspects are being eliminated, but the situation is far from clear.
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