Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Gianni is doing some yard work, and shares his thoughts about how plants go wild, or take over when they're not kept in check.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gianni takes a cigarette break from doing some yard work, and tells us something about himself. Like many other European smokers, he rolls his own cigarettes to save money.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gigi Proietti, a Rome actor who is widely known in Italy for his TV work, is in this advertisement for Kimbo Coffee.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
The dramatic song "Vado Avanti" [I go on] by Gioia Marconi describes a girl who's deluded by love and who doesn't see any future. Her hopelessness is overcome, though, by the will to go on. Video provided by PA 74 Music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Giorgia performs the song "Gocce di memoria" [Drops of Memory]. The artist wrote the lyrics to music by Andrea Guerra. It was featured in the 2003 film "Facing Windows" by the director Ferzan Ozpetek.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
"È l'amore che conta" [It's Love that Counts] is Giorgia's second single. Venice is the backdrop for the video.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Video provided by Youreporter.it Linosa is an island off of Sicily and the setting for an ecological non-profit event "Clean Water Day."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Giovanna, a resident of Campania, explains how tomato puree is made, and then preserved in glass jars.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
The "Ninna nanna del chicco di caffè" [Coffee Bean Lullaby] was first performed at a musical festival devoted children's songs, the Zecchino d'Oro, in 1970. It is still sung today by many Italian mothers to lull their babies to sleep.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
"Stella Stellina" [Star, little star) is a lullaby which repeats the names of farm animals and lulls children to sleep.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Giuditta sings a song about a beautiful turtle. The song tells about how the turtle ended up being such a slow animal.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Do you know the Italian words for family members? Listen and watch as Giuditta and Marino talk about how large their family has become since they got married and had a child.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy North Italy
Giuliano talks about why this year he chose to go to a lake for his vacation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ettore Della Giovanna, noted Italian journalist (1912-2004), interviews Giuseppe Ungaretti, considered one of the greatest poets of his time, besides having been a writer and scholar.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After thanking his host for his kind words, Ungaretti begins talking about his life. He gives a lot of credit to young people, first of all.
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