Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The architects go to present the church project for Verona to the committee of clergymen. To get the most out of this segment, see this Wikipedia entry about Pandoro.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo's life is further turned upside down when he tries to escape to the only refuge he knows: his parents' house.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has given up on everything. Sara is having more success than she banked on.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo is not as alone as he thought. And you'll never guess who he meets up with!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has a real time crunch on his hands, especially once he hears of a wedding taking place at that very moment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We're finally at the end of our film. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this video provided from PA 74 Music, Stefania Bianconi, a successful young artist, sings “Prendimi l’anima” (Take My Soul) as a finalist at the Modena Videofestival 2009.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Noemi Bossolo, known professionally as Sylia, sings the song that Lucio Battisti made famous. The lyrics to the song were written by Mogol, a frequent collaborator of Battisti, Celentano, and other artists.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mario Aprile, president of the Trifolao Association in Piedmont, gives us some tips about the characteristics of white truffles: their growth, the ideal way of storing them and of course some excellent recipes.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
TIM is Italy's state controlled mobile phone service. In this madcap ad, we're taken back to the time of Garibaldi, where the great unifier of Italy complains to his mother about her laundry skills. In order to avoid parolacce (dirty words), Garibaldi resorts to a euphemism, which even when translated won't make sense to many of us. What he means in caption 8 is "Like hell."
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
That's Italy allows us to discover different aspects of Italian style. This first episode features Basilicata, a region offering places of astonishing beauty that few know and few appreciate.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The Basilicata region of Italy has, until recently, been overshadowed by the more popular areas of the country, but now, more and more, its very special and unique characteristics have sparked the interest of all sorts of people, from tourists to filmmakers.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Monica Bellucci is an Italian fashion model and movie actress who is now a naturalized French citizen. She talks about her career and about what contributed to her being so highly successful.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Silvano Lattanzi, from the Marches region of Italy, makes shoes to be worn by heads of state and celebrities. The shoes are carefully handcrafted and can cost up to five thousand euros a pair.
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