Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mara is waiting for her blind date, and who shows up but Felice, whom she tells to beat it in no uncertain terms. Meanwhile, Carola talks to her boyfriend by phone. The next day, the chickens get out...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The girls start putting together money for Andreina to give to the swindler. Lorenzo comes to the restaurant to ask Eva an important question. She gets a late-night visit while doing the accounts.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The pearls have come back from the jewelers, but there are some details to sort out, and Renzo discusses the situation with Livietta.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Like it or not, Ugo and Nora might have to become wedding planners. Dino is still stuck in his wheelchair in the courtyard.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alberto Angela gives us a look at one of the most famous monuments in the world. We look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa through the lens of those who wanted it built.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Sometimes the subject of a sentence can be a verb in the infinitive or an entire clause. Let's see how the verb piacere works in these cases, in both simple and perfect tenses.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We're at the end of this episode, where the famous fresco has been restored. Truth, symbolized in the fresco, is the buzzword of the moment but in ordinary life, it often remains hidden.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In Italy, Easter is the time for special, traditional desserts, which, apart from being delicious, were conceived to represent symbols of life and rebirth.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Felice lives up to his word and brings Mara an ice cream cone, but there's a glitch... Carola, trying to get some work done in the farmhouse, meets Dino, who offers her a "glass of wine."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva and Lorenzo clear up their misunderstanding, and the girls get ready for the next step. Andreina does her part by giving the money to Jean-Paul, the conman.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The chief of police questions Lubia who is a bit overwhelmed by what had happened at the Bailù. Her testimony brings clarity. Camilla gets to school when a meeting is already underway.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Spartacus demonstrates how useful he can be. Nora and Ugo keep arguing about the wedding planning business.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are two ways to use an indirect object pronoun with the verb piacere (to please, to be pleasing, to like). Daniela shows us how they work.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Easter Monday is, traditionally, "picnic day" all over Italy. It's affectionately called Pasquetta (little Easter). This video is from RAI 1, one of the principal TV stations in Italy. At this particular picnic, "primordial" cooking is the protagonist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This is the famous aria for tenor from Puccini's Turandot, sung here by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti. Nessun is short for nessuno (no one) and dorma is the third person subjunctive of the verb dormire (to sleep) used as an imperative for the herald to proclaim that no one in the city may sleep.
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