Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Are we ready for electric automobiles? Gianfranco Pavan talks about Svolta Elettrica or Electric Turning Point at the Bologna Motor Show of 2011.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The second part of Via dell’inferno (Hell Road/Road to Hell) where songwriter Davide Ravera creates an atmosphere of cold winter, tears, music, freedom, longing for home, and beginning again.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessandra is quizzed on the multiplication tables and gets mighty close to winning. A round of true or false questions follows Alessandra's pairings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We meet Gina's shy niece, Alessia, when she comes to the restaurant on her lunch break. She confides in Eva and Gina about how she is being treated by her co-worker. Later, at home, Eva has to deal with a difficult question that Lorenzo asks.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A drama produced by RAI Cinema and Wildside follows the story of Giacomo, played by Fabio de Luigi, who searches for his dead father. He hopes to find his reincarnated father among the 800 million people born on earth since his father's passing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This is a song by Nino Manfredi and is about a boy who believes he's Tarzan. Being a parent isn't easy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva is in the kitchen trying, without success, to perfect a dessert recipe. She is still mad at Dante, but he is gone for a couple of days. Gina asks her to get some information from a couple in the dining room.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Corrado, a popular host, launched the song on Italian TV and it was also sold as a single. It was so successful that a sequel, “Sei contento papà?” [Are You Happy, Dad?] was created.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna visits Lucca for the first time, and gets some advice from a friend who lives there. Arianna and Eleonora look at the map together to get an idea of how the city is laid out. With its Roman origins, Lucca's urban space was designed with intersecting roads called 'cardos' and 'decumani'.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This beautiful ballad was inspired by Raimondo Lanza di Trabia, an aristocrat known for his electrifying personality and for his romantic relationships (Rita Hayworth and Susanna Agnelli among them). At the age of thirty-nine, he threw himself from a hotel window in Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us down to one of the most popular and busiest parts of the city. Many areas are primarily zone pedonali (pedestrian areas) but you still have to be very careful.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As usual, the ladies celebrate their success at the restaurant and the police chief shows up, too. Everybody is happy except for Lorenzo.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dante has gone too far this time, and Eva lashes out at him about Lorenzo's motor scooter. Words are said, and only Lola barging in with an emergency keeps it from getting out of hand. Meanwhile, Samantha is about to give up on her dream.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Today Arianna takes us back to Florence. This time we go to a high point on the southern side of the Arno river where we get a view of the whole city in all its splendor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo has to write down a word that links the five guillotine words together. Francescopaolo and his sister have different ideas about the word.
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