Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers were adolescents during World War II, and talk about how tense it was growing up with the Germans and fascists so close by. A woman at a bar gives them directions to find one of the locations for filming The Night of the Shooting Stars.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico keeps telling his story, fast-forwarding a bit, and focuses on when he got a new place to live with his friends helping him, and meeting up with Franca again.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Danilo and Cecilia give a stunning performance during the wedding ceremony, and it doesn't go unnoticed by John Gregorian, who is present. Melody is enthusiastic about the dress Dino designed for the bride, but Iside whisks him away...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gaetano is giving Camilla a bit more attention than she feels comfortable with. At home, Renzo is still cleaning the Man Ray sculpture when Camilla walks in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Don't be scared off by fancy names of clauses and parts of speech. Daniela is just showing us different ways of saying the same thing, but sometimes one way is clearer than the other, especially when the subject changes from main to subordinate clause.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We all know how to add and subtract, but talking about it in Italian is another thing. Marika helps us make sense of it and talks about the fractions and percentages we often find in the news and surveys.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Orazio picks up the package at home, where there is a surprise visitor waiting for him. Bottiglia, who is spying on Orazio, assumes the package is another pig's foot, and assumes Orazio is bound for the cemetery again and attempts to follow him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We learn about the ideas behind the movies, Father and Master and The Night of the Shooting Stars, and how music played a major role in both movies.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mimmo is discouraged about getting rejected at the radio station, and Riccardo gives him some criticism. Franca has a different opinion. The students get together to celebrate the end of their two-year program at the Experimental Center.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dino is disappointed not to have had an answer from Dubai. The wedding on ice is happening!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Virginia admits to Camilla that she hadn't told the entire truth to the police commissioner and asks her for some help. Camilla goes to see Bettina at the gallery, and then to talk to Gaetano. Renzo is home polishing his flea market purchase.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Let's see if Eva manages to get to the boat before it leaves. The girls' latest caper has brought about some changes and decisions for all of them. And of course, the episode has to conclude at the restaurant with the police commissioner.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika gets us on track with the words and expressions we need for talking about math. You might hate math, as many do, but it is handy to have the vocabulary at your fingertips!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There is a certain kind of subordinate clause, called a "clause of purpose," that basically answers the question, "to what end?" Italian has a number of conjunctions that can be translated as "so that," and they take the subjunctive in most cases. So this kind of subordinate clause can be tricky.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the party, the conversation turns to kids, and having kids. Orazio decides it's a good time to make himself scarce.
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