Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
L'Eredità [Inheritance] is an immensely popular daily quiz show on the RAI [pronounced rye], the Italian public TV and radio network. This episode benefits the Telethon Foundation, which provides funds for research into genetic diseases, and is based on Jerry Lewis's Telethon. To understand the play on words they use at a certain point, see the various meanings of macchina here. Learn more about this Italian game show here.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara and Tania show some of the items that can be bought either unfinished or decorated in their shop. They demonstrate the use of glass paints and outline the steps used in decoupage.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna is on tenterhooks waiting for the phone call that could change the course of her life. When she can't bear it any longer, the phone rings. No caller ID.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla has gotten quite a scare, but fortunately, she's fine. She has two conversations, one with the police inspector and one with her husband.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Not much information is cropping up from the investigation, but Lara has an unusual meeting with Casadio.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika covers these super tricky combined pronouns: glielo, gliela, glieli, gliene, and gliele.
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
Daniela continues with verbs that require the present subjunctive, calling attention to the all-important verb sperare [to hope].
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In World War I, Italians who up until then had spoken their regional dialects, found themselves fighting side by side against a common enemy. But Mussolini was interested in fighting the internal enemy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's a busy day for the police. A prime witness ends up in the emergency room at the hospital, and there have been three burglaries, one after another.
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