Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele's mother-in-law can't bear the idea of having a foreigner in the house taking care of the kids. As usual, she unwittingly betrays her ignorance as well as her bigotry. But privately, Lele isn't totally convinced either.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Andromeda talks about the various types of ice cream and how they are made.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika and Daniela are chatting in Rome, with the Colosseum in the distance. The focus of their chat is the word chiedere (to ask) in its different conjugations.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Roman
Francesco Totti, captain of the Rome soccer team, gives an interview on his thirty-sixth birthday in which he has to guess which goals television viewers chose as his best three out of thirty-six.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele is having trouble finding a housekeeper within his budget. His assistant at the hospital advises him to look for an "au pair" girl instead. A woman overhears the conversation and offers her services.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Panarea is the smallest of the Aeolian Islands, and is sometimes called the island with the sea inside it. Its transparent sea, steep bluffs, volcanic eruptions and quaint village make it very attractive to tourists.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Singer-songwriter Luciano Ligabue sings a love song, Viva (Alive), dedicated to the woman who at that time was his wife. The song is from his 1995 album "Buon Compleanno Elvis" (Happy Birthday Elvis).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Martini family isn't getting along so well with the new housekeeper. She doesn't give them enough time for breakfast and spends too much money on supplies.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We are at the beautiful botanical gardens of Rome. Marika and Anna are sitting on a bench talking. In their conversation they take us through the different conjugations of the verb pensare (to think).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pollara is one of the villages on Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands, and the only one to boast fresh water with the resulting vegetative mantle. In fact, its important crops include capers and grapes (in the form of Malvasia wine).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Who doesn't love ice cream? Andromeda gives us her take on the history of gelato (ice cream), from Mount Etna in Sicily to Paris.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele and Sandra talk about the pregnancy and about her future. Lele and Maria have a heart to heart talk about what's been happening in the family.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Yabla Italia's newscast with politics, sports, weather, as well as an exclusive story from a new planet called Yablin.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The smash hit, "Laura non c'è" (Laura isn't here) was sung by Nek at the Sanremo Festival in 1997 and is featured on the album, Lei, gli amici e tutto il resto (Her, my friends, and everything else). The song became famous all over the world, making Nek one of the best loved Italian singers abroad.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna and Marika are having lunch in the Trastevere quarter of Rome. Join them as they order traditional Roman pasta dishes and talk about Italian eating habits.
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